The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-12-27
FEED THE BIRDsl

met with hearty approval in great
many sections, however, there is still
lot of work to be done and at this
season of the year, when the ma
jority of our people are preparing for
the Holiday festivities, it becomes
essential that we should remember
our feathered and furred friends and
prepare to start a winter feeding
program for wildlife. After the
close of the upland game hunting sea-
son, namely December 81, feeding
program should begin and continue
until spring arrives, as we never
know what time we may have a
severe freezing spell, accompanied
by snow or sleet. During such
periods it is impossible for our
feathered and furred friends 20 Sc
cure adequate food for existence as
well as assisted by mankind.
Feeding stations in the suburbs or
country, are very easily built. You
can secure corn-shocks, set them up
in tepee style, leaving an opening at
! the bottom; or take two forked
sticks, set in the ground about 10
feet apart and by placing IFS.
pole across same, then taking poles
and putting them on the top poie,
leaving an opening to the south,
either of these systems are very ade-
quate and, in fact, you can make a
feeding station out of most anything
providing you do not close same.
Always leave an opening on the
ground whereby wildlife may escape
if attacked by vermin. AS a rule,
where man has established himself,
he has necessarily adjusted condi-
lions to such an extent as to unbal-
ance nature and in so doing he has
often made trouble for himself, as
it is very essential that we have
birds present to assist the human
family in the fight against insects
and weeds. Birds are very essen
tial for the growing of crops and if
it were not for the presence of birds,
especially song and insectivorous
species, our agriculturists would be
unable 20 produce crops on which
humans exist and the forest areas OF
this Continent would become decay
ed and fall to the ground, therefore,
we must use artificial means of at
tracing birds to our properties.
They are very essential to our gar
dens and flowers as well as crops and
we must give them help as well as
protection to compensate for the
many ways in which we have turned
the balance of nature against them.
There is not spot in our beauti-
full State so lonely and no city so
crowded with human beings, that 1t
is not suitable for wild bird life.
Birds are interesting neighbors once
you learn to know them. Their
calls and songs make the countryside
wonderfully attractive. They enliven
the fields and woods and the gardens.
Just imagine how dead and insipid
landscape would be without them.
To our many city friends, we
recommend the placing of suet on
window stills or in your yard in the
crotch of a tree or on post, or bet
ter still, if you will take mesh bag,
fill it with suet, tie to string and
tie the string to a limb SO it will
sway in the wind, many of the small
birds will be benefited thru this
method as the larger birds cannot
drive them away. In addition to
suet, we recommend the use at all
feeding stations, of scratch chick
grain which contains an assortment
of grains which the birds enjoy very
much.
Bird Baths
Bird baths are very essential.
They can be located on any proper
4 ties and they make a very attractive
ornament and am sure you will be
well-paid for your trobule and ex-
perience in noting your feathered
friends enjoying the bird-bath which
you have established. II you are
not in a position to purchase a manu-
featured bird-ba:h of concrete, a
shallow basin, or pan, set in the
ground even with the surface so as
to allow the birds to walk In and
walk out, will serve the purpose.
Establish feeding stations and as
sist us in preserving thousands of
pieces Of broodstock for the season
of 1886,
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