6 METHODS OF ATTRACTING BIRDS 



owlark and quail, that have most reason to fear 

 man and therefore usually keep at a safe distance 

 from human habitations." 



Value of attracting Birds to the Farm 



The farmer will find it a profitable business 

 undertaking to make efEorts to attract birds 

 around his dwellings and orchard for the return 

 which the birds give in destroying the insects 

 that attack his crops. The real practical value 

 to the farmer, from a business standpoint, of tak- 

 ing the steps necessary to encourage the presence 

 of birds around the farm, is generally unappre- 

 ciated. The progressive farmer does not be- 

 grudge the expense entailed in securing a spray- 

 ing outfit, and the annual outlay involved in its 

 use. With an expense so small that it hardly 

 needs to be taken into account, the farmer may 

 have very efficient insect-destroyers in the flocks 

 of birds which may be attracted around the 

 farm, — destroyers which do not require the time 

 and supervision of the farmer to render them 

 effective, but which of their own accord are con- 

 stantly at work from sunrise until sunset, freeing 

 the farm from its insect enemies. Some enter- 

 prising farmers are taking steps to attract birds 

 around their farms. A successful fruit-grower in 

 Georgia has erected a series of tall poles in his 



