Brook Qardens 
CHOICE BIRD HOUSES 
WREN HOUSE, Style A 
Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $1.25, Wt. 8 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
Add to the enjoyment and attrac¬ 
tiveness of your lawns and gardens by 
the addition of Brook Garden Bird 
Houses. Many varieties of our feath¬ 
ered friends can be induced to grace 
our premises if suitable homes are 
provided for them. We show here an 
artistic collection of carefully and 
scientifically constructed bird houses, 
that, aside from their utility, are real 
ornaments. Plan to place a few of 
these houses about your grounds this 
season. 
Encourage the wrens to help cbntrol 
the insect pests in your garden by fur¬ 
nishing them homes. Iqsects make up 
the food supply of these cheerfu' little 
birds and no one can estimate the 
number of various kinds of insect 
pests required to raise a family of 
baby wrens to maturity. This food 
supply will be gathered from your 
garden plantings if birds can f>e in 
duced to take up residence on your 
grounds. 
Wrens raise two broods of from 
six to eight young each year, moving 
into a different house for the second 
brood. It is therefore well to supply 
two houses for each pair you hope to 
accommodate. Year after year they 
will return to the same houses and, 
with much song and flurry, do their 
own thorough spring house-cleaning 
and raise their little broods. On our 
immediate grounds we have had as 
many as six pairs nesting at the same 
time. 
Wrens are friendly and companion¬ 
able little birds and will appreciate a 
house near your own. They want 
your protection and will nest within 
a few feet from your door. The hang¬ 
ing type of house, such as we use, is 
ideal for the reason that their chief 
enemy, The English Sparrow, does 
not molest the hanging house to any 
great extent. 
BLUEBIRD HOUSE, Style I 
Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $1.50, Wt. 10 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
The Flicker is one of our most 
useful birds and as such is en¬ 
titled to full protection and care. 
Ants and chinch bugs are two 
of the main articles of their 
diet and countless numbers of 
these pests are destroyed in the 
upbringing of a family of six 
husky baby flickers. We should 
encourage and facilitate their 
house-keeping efforts by fur¬ 
nishing their particular style 
of nesting house, to which they 
readily adapt themselves. Our 
flicker houses are most care¬ 
fully constructed to meet the pe¬ 
culiar requirements of these 
birds. This house should be 
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WREN HOUSE, Style B 
Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $1.25, Wt. 8 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
Every effort should be made 
to encourage these useful birds 
to select our gardens for their 
homes. “Jenny Wren” has per¬ 
sonally approved each of the 
four designs shown here, as we 
have had her nesting in each 
type of house on our grounds. 
Do not fail to make provision 
in a secluded spot in your gar¬ 
den for the colorful bluebirds. 
These birds like privacy and will 
select a site usually removed 
from dwellings. Bluebirds raise two and even three 
broods a year for whose sustenance they will glean many 
kinds of insects from your garden. The chief item of 
bluebird diet is the grasshopper and for {his reason, if no 
other, they should be encouraged'to remain with us. 
We feature here a house particularly adapted to their 
use. This style of house may be hung from a tree branch 
or hung over a nail or screw on a convenient post. A 
small hole drilled in the back of this house is for this 
latter purpose. By the removal of two screws, readily 
seen in the front and back of the house, the bottom may 
be removed for cleaning, if desired, altlough this is not 
necessary, as most birds prefer to do Iheir own house- 
WREN HOUSE, Style C 
Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $i.25, Wt. 8 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
cleaning. If you wish to enjoy—and \ 
that cheerful bluebird song and the lov< 
on your lawn, provide one of these durab 
for these beneficial birds. 
rho would not— 
ly flash of blue 
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fastened securely to a tree trunk or post, 
from 10 to 20 feet above the ground. Your 
tenant will more than compensate you for 
your efforts. 
Our combination Robin shelf and Wren 
house is very popular and is readily used 
by both of these birds, though not at the 
same time. The Catbird, one of the cut¬ 
worm’s greatest destroyers, also accepts this 
accommodation. 
We have recently learned that several of 
our patrons use this shelf during the win¬ 
ter months as a feeding tray for our win¬ 
ter birds with most gratifying results. Car¬ 
dinals, Downey Woodpeckers, Chickadees 
and Nuthatches visit these fejding trays at 
this time. This type of house is hung over 
a nail or Screwed to the side of buildings 
or the trunk of a tree. Being built of No. 
1 Cypress, stained and waterproofed, it 
withstands all weather and climates. 
Since bir^ls are always looking for a new 
location birdhouses can be erected at any 
time with qesired results. No place is too 
small to accommodate at least a few of 
these attractive bird homes. Send us a de¬ 
scription ajid the location of your grounds 
and let us Suggest the number and kinds of 
houses most suitable for your particular 
needs. We: shall be glad to advise you. 
WREN HOUSE and ROBIN SHELF 
Style F, Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $2.50, Wt. 15 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
Brook Garden Bird Houses are carefully, scientifically con¬ 
structed in our own work-shop of No. 1 Cypress, recognized 
as the best possible material for this purpose. In addition 
to their use as bird homes they will prove real garden orna¬ 
ments and will aid much to the appearance of your premises. 
We suggest leaving them up throughout the year. Being 
made of Cypress “the wood eternal”, stained and water¬ 
proofed, they will not be injured by the elements but will 
take on that weathered appearance so much desired by their 
tenants and will last indefinitely. 
WREN HOUSE, Style D 
Color, Brown or Creen 
Price $1.25, Wt. 8 lbs. 
F.O.B. Coodland, Ind. 
SHIPPING COSTS 
The prices quoted for the bird houses are all F.O.B. Cood¬ 
land, and in order to enable you to compute the amount to send 
additional for transportation the following table has been pre¬ 
pared. 
STYLES 
A, B, C, D 
E _ 
F _ 
Miles 
Miles 
Mies 
Miles 
150 
300 
600 
1000 
. 23c 
35c 
49c 
61c 
27c 
42c 
59c 
75c 
. 37c 
59c 
86c 
$1.10 
.. 47c 
77c 
$1.12 
$1.45 
