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Title: Gleanings from nature
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jacobs, Joseph Warren, 1868-
Subjects: Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Waynesburg, Pa. : Independent Book & Job Office
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ry lively.and chirping and calling each other, but for two or three weeks they 48 did not begin to nest. At last three pairs began nesting at the farmhouse—although there was a pair of English sparrows on one side ofthe house and a pair of bluebirds on the other. They came to both my houses at the shore of the lake, but after going in and out of thetwo houses there for about a fortnight, they decided to live in yourhouse and live or six martins have continued to fly in and out thereever since, hut they have not nested I think, hut some part of everyday they come and fly about and enter it. Also they fly high abovethe tall pines, of which the grove is composed, for hours. The pairs at the farm house have hatched and are now trying toinduce the little ones to fly. So I feel abundantly rewarded for all the work I did last year withthe young ones, for 1 must conclude that some of them that got awayfrom me lived in the vicinity and returned this year. Yours very truly, Danl. C. Robinson.
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Booth Lake, Wisconsin, June 20, (909.Mr. J. Warren Jacobs,Dear Sir: I enclose photo of bird house my son bought of you. The birdshave taken to it well, with exception of the first story or floor. Whycan that be? Do you think on account of the columns? I will alsoask- if the rooms should be cleaned in fall, or spring? Yours respectfully,Box 69, East Troy, Wis. S. (. Peterson. 49 Note—In my opinion the birds avoided the lower part ofthe house on account of the branch stubs supporting the same,especially if new leaves and twigs were allowed to start out onthese. This is a pretty effect in mounting a bird house, butnew branches growing up around, and obscuring the box willeventually cause the birds to abandon it. It also exposes thenests to greater danger from cats, and other destructive animalsand snakes. I might say, however, regarding the birds prefer-ring the upper stories, that in new boxes the upper rooms areusually first selected, and as the colony grows the lower floorrooms are

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