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HOUSE & GARDEN 
AMMUNITIONS of PEACE 
Your choice for $1.25. The three for $3.50. 
These houses are intended for woodpeckers, bluebirds, nuthatch, and their kind 
No. 21 
“Blue 
Bird” 
No. 25 
“Wood 
Pecker’* 
No. 23 
“Wren” 
I am 
sort of 
“Crank" on 
the subject 
and often 
see ideas for 
bird houses 
where others 
can not. This design 
reminds us continually 
of a country where the ten¬ 
der care of young children is 
an art. When you attend the 
Film Play called "The Typhoon," 
look for this design. 
No. 75 
$3.00 
The fancy 
scroll opening 
is lined with 
copper netting 
to keep out in- 
sects. The 
w ron will 
readily use it. 
Hang under 
heavy cornice 
or porch, partly' 
sheltered from 
the weather. 
“The Wren House Beautiful” 
This class of house requires some tree 
mould and saw dust. We provide this. 
No. 28 
$2.00 
These 
houses 
should al- 
w a y s be 
large. This is 
a bird that 
loves m uch 
company. If 
well housed 
and well 
used, they 
come in 
larger flocks 
each year. 
It is a 
well known 
fact that 
Martins look 
about for a 
place to 
come the 
following 
Spring. Last 
year we re¬ 
turned some 
twenty 
checks .for 
^Martin House.” 14 Rooms, $20 
Houses we 
could not 
make in 
time. 
M a n y 
people re¬ 
frain from 
erecting 
these, for 
fear the Eng¬ 
lish Spar¬ 
rows will 
only make 
use of them. 
If you are a 
true lover of 
birds, help 
us get rid of 
the sparrow 
pest. At 
" Birdville " 
we have 
destroyed 
over 600 in 
a year by 
use of the 
Wire Trap. 
Put House up 
early. Set for Blue¬ 
bird the larger open¬ 
ing. If you have no 
tenant, remove brass 
screw on b a c k and 
fasten that piece 
over the large hole, 
and you have a most 
complete Wren 
House. Sparrows are 
said not to bother a 
Swinging House. At 
any rate, they will 
have to quit after you 
set it for Wrens. 
No.17. “Bracket Wren 
Of twenty or more houses on 
my place, this has been "Jen¬ 
nie’s" choice the last two years. 
This house also drew a prize in 
a bird house contest. 
Most suitable for a gift to a 
friend at any time of the year. 
If bought out of season, can be 
hung up in study, there tending 
to keep the noble "Bird cause" 
fresh in your mind. This 
House and "Bird Architecture" 
for $1. 
No. 11 
No. 13 
This combination proved a great success last season. Place your wren houses near dwelling, 
the wren is hardly ever known to nest off in the woods. If not disturbed, will get very tame. 
Our wren houses are made with one-inch holes to keep the sparrows out. Wren Houses. $1.25 
Each. The Three for $3.50. 
In getting up our Circular it was first intended to be only a supplementary 
leaflet, to contain a few new designs. The next step was to have better 
cuts and show a few improvements in several pieces. The idea grew and 
grew until now I have quite a Booklet. Will you send for a copy? With 
your kindly assistance we will go on prospering. 
We have not turned our shop into an ammunition factory, but have en¬ 
larged it, and shall continue to manufacture the Ammunitions of Peace. 
A. “Prosperity” Greira, “Birdville,” Toms River, N. J. 
The Bird Club Movement 
(Continued from page 54) 
the work or to stand in the way of 
its progress. Thank heaven they can 
never stop it now, any more than they 
can stop the Twentieth Century 
Limited by jumping in front of it. 
They had better “get aboard” before 
they're run over! 
Work in Colleges 
Until recently the colleges as such 
have stood aloof from the movement, 
but now they are beginning to be in¬ 
terested. Vassar has a well organized 
bird club, backed heart and soul by 
President McCracken and his faculty. 
The old Wake Robin Club has taken 
up the good work and has wisely 
changed its name to The Vassar 
Wake Robin Club that the world may 
know that Vassar College stands for 
bird conservation. The spirit with 
which Vassar entered the field was 
at once apparent when the writer 
visited the college last winter. The 
work assigned to the College Press 
Club that day consisted of gathering 
data for articles and editorials on 
the protection of birds, and to this 
end Prof. Burgess Johnson, of the 
English Department, interviewed the 
writer on the subject, while his stu¬ 
dents took notes which have since 
appeared in various forms in “The 
Vassar Miscellany Weekly” and else¬ 
where. Later the same day an illus¬ 
trated lecture was given for the 
whole college, and later still Presi¬ 
dent McCracken arranged to have the 
writer confer with the members of 
the senior class. Vassar Campus is 
now declared a bird sanctuary and 
upwards of a hundred nest boxes 
have been erected there this spring. 
There is reason to believe that 
Wellesley and Mt. Holyoke will fall 
in line within a year, and if they do 
no woman's college will be con¬ 
sidered up-to-date unless it has an 
active bird club. 
In a nutshell, the difference be¬ 
tween the old and the new methods 
of protecting birds is this: The first 
consists of forcing people against 
their will to curtail or renounce the 
pleasure and profit they get from de¬ 
stroying bird life; the second consists 
of making them eager to increase the 
pleasure and profit to be had from 
preserving bird life. The former 
method, necessary as it is at times 
and places, is at best but a make¬ 
shift. The latter is based on princi¬ 
ples fundamentally sound, and is as 
permanent as the hills. 
The Bird Club Movement must 
succeed because it is founded on rea¬ 
son, because it affords an oppor¬ 
tunity for every person in a com¬ 
munity to render real service to that 
community and to the country with¬ 
out making a prohibitive sacrifice; 
because the work involved is health¬ 
ful and attractive; and because it 
accomplishes its object, namely, the 
protection of birds. 
A Definite Plan 
Here then is a plan. Let each 
community, large or small, have its 
bird club, whose duty it shall be to 
look after the welfare of the local 
birds to the extent of offering them 
hospitality in the form of food, 
water, nesting sites, shelter and a 
certain amount of protection from 
their enemies. Let each State have 
its State Audubon Society, which may 
supplement the work of the bird 
clubs, but whose chief business shall 
be to attend to such State legislation 
as may be necessary. On The Na¬ 
tional Association of Audubon So¬ 
cieties, whose headquarters are at 
1974 Broadway, New York City, rests 
the responsibility for a general super¬ 
vision of bird work the country over, 
including the protection of many na¬ 
tional bird refuges in uninhabited 
regions where but for such protection 
the birds would be destroyed by 
plume hunters. The local bird clubs 
can at once double their usefulness 
by joining the National Association. 
In the first place this association can 
help them tremendously with their 
work among the children by supply¬ 
ing them with interesting and relia¬ 
ble literature and with colored por¬ 
traits of birds. Then, without in any 
way losing their individuality, the 
clubs in their turn can add tremen¬ 
dous power to the most important 
bird protective organization in this 
country if not in the world. Imagine 
a thousand bird clubs (and there will 
soon be that many) distributed over 
the United States; what a power 
they would be when notified by The 
National Association of Audubon 
Societies that their support was 
needed to insure the passage of some 
splendid bill drafted in the interest 
of bird conservation! 
So let us to the work. Many well- 
known bird men have set us good 
examples. Colonel Roosevelt is pres¬ 
ident of The Bird Club of Long 
Island, Frank M. Chapman is an of¬ 
ficer of The Englewood Bird Club 
and Ralph Hoffmann is secretary of 
The Kansas City Bird Club, of Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo. Let us spread a net¬ 
work of similar clubs from the At¬ 
lantic to the Pacific, and with the 
help of our Canadian cousins, from 
Northern Canada to the Gulf. There 
could be no happier solution of the 
problem of American wild bird con¬ 
servation. 
Lengthen the Life of Your Lawn 
(Continued from page 45) 
is not yet available. The Ohio Experi¬ 
ment Station recommendsamixture of 
ten pounds of Kentucky blue-grass, 
eight pounds of red-top, six pounds of 
timothy, four pounds of red clover, and 
two pounds of Alsike clover per acre 
for conditions in that latitude. Where 
blue-grass and white clover alone are 
used the seeding should be not less 
than two bushels of the former and 
one peck of the latter per acre. 
If care has been taken to have 
seed and soil as nearly weed free as 
possible, the planting may be done as 
soon as the ground can be made 
ready in the spring. In seasons 
when abundant rains delay opera¬ 
tions, it is better to defer the plant¬ 
ing until fall rather than to run the 
risk of having the young plants suf¬ 
fer from the effects of drought and 
summer heat. If the seedling is de¬ 
ferred until September, weeds which 
appear before planting operations 
can be eradicated by frequent culti¬ 
vation of the lawn up to the final 
preparation of the seed bed. 
In order to ensure a proper dis¬ 
tribution of plants, divide the seed 
stock into two lots and scatter them 
at right angles to one another. On 
small areas, hand seeding is not a 
laborious task, especially if the op¬ 
erator uses a horn seeder to assist 
him in the work. A calm day, pre¬ 
ferably just before a shower, is 
ideal for the sowing. After the seed 
is on the ground it should be gently 
raked or harrowed under. Should 
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