Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — Pays to Feed the Birds. [ARTICLE]

Pays to Feed the Birds.

“It pays, In dollars and cents, to feed the birds,” writes Rev. Manley B, Townsend in the Guide to Nature, Every orchard should at regular inter vals have suet fastened to the trees, as well as bird boxes- for nesting pur* poses. There is pleasure in watching the feeding birds—their beautiful colors, their graceful movements, their engaging ways, to say nothing of gaining their confidence and perhaps persuading them to light upon us and take food from our hand. There is a Joy in such companionship, a deep satisfaction in ministering to a dependent life. On Thanksgiving day, as I sat down to dinner, I glanced out of the window into the apple tree. There was a little downy woodpecker at hi» Thanksgiving dinner of suet (we both had suet pudding that day), and my heart was the lighter and my Thanksgiving the brighter because, I had a tiny feathered guest to enjoy my bounty. Try it for yourself and see if this is not so.”