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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 1913 
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to look for worms or refresh itself at a 
drinking pan on the lawn. It becomes a 
shy bird, and in companies of dozens or 
hundreds it feeds on the ground in the 
pine woods, or gathers in the dense forests 
to partake of the fruit of the cabbage pal¬ 
metto or the berries of the black gum trees 
in the swamps. It does not sing in this 
region and people generally regard it as a 
game bird. In numerous places these birds 
are shot in great numbers. Long strings of 
robins appear in the markets of many an 
unpaved town, and negro children play 
with feathers from the red-breast, while 
the little birds’ bodies are cooking in the 
steaming and toothsome pot-pie. 
One cold winter day 1 went out to see 
my friend who lived in the pine grove at 
the edge of the village. A raw wind was 
blowing from the north and patches of 
snow lay in every sheltered nook where the 
gales had driven it. 
“No, indeed, you are not my only guest,” 
said the staunch bird lover. “Some of my 
friends in feathers are also here. Come 
and I will show you.” He led the way to 
the old orchard and in a few minutes we 
discovered a downy woodpecker clinging 
to the side of an ancient apple tree. This 
is a bird to be found in every old apple 
orchard. It is the true guardian of the 
apple tree. 
Tucked away in crevices of the bark are 
many capsules of insects’ eggs, which are 
hidden there until the warm days of spring 
shall come and hatch them out into rav¬ 
enous larvae which will prey upon the 
leaves above. The downy woodpecker 
hunts for these. Sometimes it will find, 
buried beneath the trunk, the eggs or larvae 
of the coddling moth. As it hops around 
or descends the trunk by a series of back¬ 
ward jumps, it strikes the bark repeatedly 
with its bill. The sound given back by 
these inquiring taps advises the bird when 
it has found a spot where an insect has 
deposited its eggs. Then the little chips fly 
as the bill rapidly chisels an opening which 
will enable its sharp-barbed tongue to 
bring forth its prey. 
But the birds which perhaps are of 
greatest service to the gardener and farmer 
during the winter months are those which 
feed on the seeds of grass and weeds. 
Chief among these are our native sparrows 
—the field, white-throated, fox and tree 
sparrows being common representatives in 
the neighborhood of New York. Go out 
into the brown fields any day in the fall 
and winter when the ground is not actually 
covered with snow and you may start 
flocks of these little birds from many a 
grassy slope and weed thicket. 
Birds digest their food very rapidly, a 
fact which may be observed by anyone who 
has ever kept a canary or other bird in 
captivity. The amount of food necessary 
to sustain their little bodies, the temper¬ 
ature of which is over ioo degrees and 
whose heart beats more than twice as fast 
as the human heart, is indeed considerable. 
When we take into consideration the fact 
that the individuals of each species of 
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