The Museum offers prizes each year to the boys of Mr. Baxter’s classes and our exhibit of Bird Houses on the first Saturday in April is an event that attracts many proud parents to inspect the work of their children.
In this little book, Mr. Baxter tells very explicitly just how any one can build suitable houses to attract our native birds.
Just here I would like to say that any town or community that protects its birds, insures its harvests against destruction by insect pests. Therefore the economic value of Bird Houses is even greater than the aesthetic. The results actually accomplished by Mr. Baxter along these lines vouch for the accuracy of the information contained in this little book.
Inez Addie Howe,
Instructor in Nature Study.
The Fairbanks Museum,
St. Johnsbury, Vt.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
To the lover of the open, the woods, the fields, and waterways and all of God’s wild things, this book is affectionately dedicated.
To lead the boy and girl toward their proper relationship with their feathered friends of the air, and to instil the feeling of protection toward our native birds, these pages have been written and these designs made.
What is offered between the covers of this little book is the results of study and observation of birds and their ways covering a period of six years.
Each drawing offered is of a proven house, one that has served as a home for some of our songsters and if the directions, here set down, are faithfully followed, equal success will crown the builders’ efforts.