Photo by Ernest Harold Baynes 



FLICKERS USING A BKRIvEPSCH BIRD-BOX 



"I have used the Berlepsch type of vertical boxes with considerable success. These are 

 simply sections of logs, hollowed out by special machinery in a very particular manner to 

 represent woodpeckers' cavities, with entrance hole in side of desired diameter, and covered 

 by a wooden cap or roof that may be lifted for purposes of investigation or in order that 

 the nests may be cleaned out from time to time, the whole bolted to an oaken batten, by 

 which they may be fastened to trees" (see page 339). 



surroundings of our farm buildings are 

 in many cases much too bare and bleak. 



The average house when surrounded by 

 proper planting almost invariably looks 



better than if left to stand out cold and 

 hard and with base-line unbroken. Wind 

 breaks may almost always be planted 

 somewhere, both with benefit to the farm 



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