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Title: Our native birds; how to protect them and attract them to our homes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Lange, Dietrich, 1863-1940. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds Bird attracting
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and doorsof many country schoolhouses did not so much suggestthe structure in which the worthy Ichabod Crane offici-ated, a stranger would undoubtedly mistake these cor-ner shanties for township jails or some kind of penalsheds or almshouses. The dilapidated appearance of thejail and its desolate surroundings he might interpret asintended to accentuate the punishment of the culprit orto symbolize the lack of beauty and harmony in hismind and morals. I cannot imagine that, without see-ing the children, the teacher, or the school furniture, hecould possibly hit upon the idea that these are theplaces where wealthy, intelligent, and practical com-munities compel their children to spend one-fifth of thewaking hours of their youth, and that they would ATTRACTING SONG BIRDS 31 select such desolate shacks in which to teach the grow-ing generation to appreciate and admire the beautiful.As long as so little is done to make country life pleas-ant, the boys and girls do right to leave the farms.
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Fig. 5. — Twigs of Burning-bush in Fruit and Red Cedar. Froma Water Color by H. Giehler. About One-third Natural Size. Every person who is interested in making rural lifeand rural schools what they ought to be should send for :Bulletin 160, Hints on Rural School Grounds. ByL. H. Bailey, Cornell University, Agricultural Ex- 32 OUR NATIVE BIRDS periment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. It is sent free toapplicants. The bulletin is finely illustrated and gives explicitdirections for planting trees, shrubbery, and flowers onschool grounds. The suggestions given there can alsobe applied to rural homes, city homes, and city schools.If you follow out Professor Baileys ideas, you will soonhave trees, shrubs, flowers, and birds near your homesand schools, and they will become the beauty spots ofthe country.1 1 See an article on School Gardens in Appletons Popular ScienceMonthly, February, 1898. Write to Agricultural Experiment Station,Fort Collins, Col., for Notes on Birds of Colorado ; to Agricultura

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