Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — Build Bird Homes. [ARTICLE]

Build Bird Homes.

Birds add much to the home surroundings and are easily made neighbors if nesting places are available. Bird houses will attract wrens, bluebirds, martins and nuthatches; and the windbreak, apple orchard, or lawn trees make good homes for orioles, phoebes, robins and thrushes. They will pay for any attention by the destruction of many injurious insects. Some fruiting shrubs, such as the Juneberry, black haw, sheepberry and cherry should be planted in thickets, not alone for the birds, but because they add much to the surroundings.