98 Birds Every Child Should Know 
The curculio, one of the worst enemies every 
fruit grower has to fight, destroying as it does 
millions of dollars worth of crops every year, 
is practically unknown in that Georgia planter’s 
orchard. Some day farmers all over the 
United States will wake up and copy his good 
idea. 
A colony of martins circling about a house 
give it a delightful home-like air. Their very 
soft, sweet conversation with one another 
as they fly, sounds like rippling, musical 
laughter. 
THE BARN SWALLOW 
Do you know where there is an old-fashioned, 
weather-worn barn, with its hospitable doors 
standing open, where you could not find at 
least one pair of barn swallows at home beneath 
its roof? These birds, you will notice, prefer 
dilapidated old farm buildings, whose doors are 
off their hinges, and whose loose shingles or 
broken clapboards offer plenty of entrances 
and exits. If you like to play around a barn 
as well as every child I know, you must be 
already acquainted with the exquisite, dark 
steel-blue swallows with glistening reddish buff 
breasts, and deeply forked tails, that dart and 
glide in and out of the openings, merrily twitter- 
ing as they fly. While you tumble about in the 
