By Ferd. J, Swdow, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



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Upon establishing this trap for sometime and coaxing the sparrows into it for a few days 

 you will be astonished how many you can trap on a cold rough day, when the snow is on the 

 ground. The sparrow being a vary cunning bird will find the feed and tell others very soon. 

 I caught as many as 400 sparrows in just such a trap in a single day. In Europe the boys 

 take great delight in catching sparrows in winter. They are used for the table, offered in 

 restaurants and considered pretty good eating. 



miOHT. 



This illustration shows the right and wrong way in putting up nest boxes ; place the boxes 

 the hole to face south in such a position so the rain can not drive into the hole any more 

 than possible. 



*e Jackson. 



Pheasant Capons 



If you wish to use pheasant cocks for 

 ornamental purposes and ovisrcome their 

 nature as fighters, make capons of them and 

 they will be as peaceable as lamb^. It will also 

 enable you to keep hundreds of cock birds in 

 one pen. 



What a grand sight to see a large num- 

 ber of them peaceable together 



A colored man who for the first time got a gHmpse of pheasants- 

 and blitzen, look at dem praty poeasants. 



-By thar thondarrashon 



