. La circulaire du ministère. L'agriculture. Fig. 13. - Co- coanut panier écologique. La cavité est remplie d'un peu de nourriture mélange. pris sur un panier métallique. En poussant la tête dans entre les fils pour suet un de ses yeux humides s'est accidentellement en contact avec le fil de frosty. Toute personne qui n'a jamais touché sa langue à une barre de fer plein de gel va apprécier ce qui s'est passé. L'œil a gelé au fil électrique et dans ses combats l'oiseau a arraché l'oeil.^ Ce peut être très rare, mais où il a été observé et publié mais une fois qu'il a pu se produire plusieurs fois un- noté. La meilleure suet recepta

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. Department circular. Agriculture. Fig. 13. — Co- coanut lunch basket. The cavity is filled with some food mixture. caught on a wire basket. In thrusting its head in between the wires for suet one of its moist eyes accidentally came in contact with the frosty wire. Any one who has ever touched his tongue to an iron bar full of frost will appreciate what happened. The eye froze to the wire and in its struggles the bird tore out the eyeball.^ This may be a very rare occurrence, but where it has been observed and published but once it may have occurred many times un- noted. The best suet receptacle is a crocheted bag made of twine, such fig.h. —Asoap rack used for as is made by Mrs. E. O. Marshall suet. (see Fig. 15), and tacked to a small, thin piece of board, or hung from a branch by a long cord. Fine twine netting such as is used for shrimp nets or crab nets might be utilized for this purpose. Ground Feeding. Sparrows and other ground-frequenting birds may be fed on the ground or on the snow, their normal feeding place in winter, and such feeding often becomes necessary at first to accustom them to come to food receptacles; but food thrown upon the ground is likely to be wasted, spoiled by rain or covered b}^ snow and ice, unless under cover. Also, birds feeding on the ground are often endangered bv the attacks of cats or hawks.. Fig. 15.—Cro- cheted suet ba;;. A Great Attraction. There is no more popular refuge for ground birds than a heap of brush. Bushes or tree limbs may be cut and piled on the ground near the feeding places. Seed-bearing weeds may be pulled up and mixed with the brush, or the pile may be thatched with them, hayseed may be thrown into the pile, and in winter it may be roofed over with branches of pine or other 1 Fias, Feathers and Fur. Official Bulletin of the Minnesota Game and Fish Department, No. 12, December, 1917, p. 5.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for rea

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