ts “© ter, - of their nests. <The only law it reco- is right. It.defiles our buildings » to a similar form of KEEP YOUR ‘THE P. P. DALLEY we BIG VALUE P. ata Erte Pe PASTES FOR BLAOK, TAN, OXBLOOO AND BROWN LEATHER SHOES, DALLEY- CORPORATIONS LTD. HAMILTON, CAN. POPC OE RRIDEOD LSI T NANG VEVOABVANSS RE p an ’ 40TT 1 at us ; : SHOES NEAT — 5 Zend i A Bird Of The Couithe e | The English of house sparrow (passer domesticus) is a vird of low manners, vulgar taste and vile habits. -it is a ruffian, a robber and a filibus- It-is a hateful, domineering for- eigner that has invaded our peaceful shores, It drives away our beauti- ful.native birds and takes possession gnizes is the law of jungle, that might th filth, destroys our crops, and fills air with its noisy, discordant chatter. In a-word, it is a vituperative,.cun- ning and destructive pest. It is the disgusting, obnoxious rat of the bird wor The distinguished ornithologist. Dr: Elliott Coues, calls it a parasite. a tramp, a gamin and a hoodlum. He Says: : ij “Imported ; during a craze which even.affected some orni- thologists, making people fancy that \a granivorous, conirostral bird would rid us of insect pests, this sturdy, in- vincible. little bird has over-run the whole country and proved a. nuisance without a redeeming quality.” 4 Pan sparrow” rather than the “Eng- lish.” This thought may have been comforting during the great-war, but in these days of peace and sober re- flection we must admit that the Ger- mans do not possess all the iniquity of the worid, Though the house spar- row jis found in Germany, it is also a native to nearly the whole of Bur- ope, ranging.as far north as latitude 7. degrees It is likewise found in Persia, Central Asia, India and Cey- lon. The name ‘English sparrow” ‘is an. unfortunate misnomer, which “owes it origin to the fact that most of the sparrows imported into American were brought from England. The house sparrow was first intro- duced to the United States in the year 1850, when eight pairs were released in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1854 and 1858 several pairs were brought to Port- land, Maine. in 1868, twenty birds wére liberated on the Common in Bos- ton,.Mass. In 1860 twelve sparrows were turned loose In Madison Square, New York City; in 1864 they were introduced to Central Park, and two years later 200 were set free in Un- The late Frank Bolles, a close ob- server of birds, declared: “‘The Eng-' lish sparrow stands to me as Chicago anarchist, “tough, the Boston pigilist, can all be identified in his turbulent and dirty society. He is a-bird of the city, rich in city vices, expedients and miseries. The farmer's son who takes to drink and the Hast End makes a hard char- acter. The sparrow, who has taken existence, is equally despicable."’ _ The soul of that gentle naturalist, / ‘Dr. Charlés C. Abbott, fs-filled with wrath when he observes the iniquity of this alien. In referring to -the charming and gracious presence of the swallows formerly in the towns, he declares: “The imported sparrows changed all that, and where we had music, grace and direct henefts conferred, we now have wrangling, obscenity and injuries inflicted. The town sparrow and modern municipal politicians are much alike, and the world will be better when both are ex- terminated.” Even the gentle poets, who are al- ways singing the praises of the happy birds, have scarcely a good word to say for passer domesticus. In fact, they have to rebuke him for his bad habits and uneouth manners. One English poet, as he watchés a num- ber of sparrows fighting viciously In the gutter, exclaims in disgust: “Stop, feathered bullies! Peace, angry birds; You common sparrows that, For a few words, Rol fighting in wet mud, To shed each other's blood. _ “Look at those linnets—they Like ladies sing; See how those swallows, too, Play on the wing; All other birds close by Are gentle, clean and shy.” An American poetess, while - knowledging Mr. Cock-Sparrow’s tr: apparel and indomitable will, h: , but-true, things to say about b “So cee in plumage and hue, A-study in grey and in brown, “How little, how little we knew - ‘The pest he would prove to the town! Zé ieee: eles until dayliapi gram ? pepeneni chatter And. scold, we winter‘migration for him, _pNot even afraid of the cold! Ee ex jpanigtrent meddlesome thing! Wherever he goes .as:a guest . » 5 He-is-sure to remain as a king.” the! feathered embodiment to the lowest | class of foreign immigrants. The! fully established at Quebec in 1864. the New York | | they have spread-rapidly westward. . “searés a song-bird he failg to mo-! , ion Park of tie same city. In 1889 the city of Philadelphia imported a thousand birds in one shipment. In Canada the sparrows wefe first In 1870 they appeared in Montreal. In that same year ten pairs Were brought to Ottawa. They were intro- duced to Hamilton, Ont., about the streets of that city, and immediately the City Council ordered a handsome for them in Gore Park... In.1874 my friend,-Mr. L. H. Smith, now of River- sige, California, brought six pairs of sparrows to Strathroy, Ont., from New York City, paying one-dollar for each. } hind... r- rows were seen néar fhe railway sta- \ tion.at Winnipeg,’ Man. Since then The house sparrow is mow a. resi- dent in nearly ali parts of Canada and ce| in every State in the Union. ‘Its rapid dissemination is a result of the | bird's hardiness, extraordinary fe- | cundity, diversity of food, aggressive disposition, and almost complete im- munity from natural enemies.’ It can adapt itself to any environment, and exist where other birds perish. In the winter, when food is scarce, it fattens on-—the half-digested oats which-it finds.in the droppings of horses. It ie Leg almost anything in the time of n This bird will “build its nest in al- most any kind of place and of any sort of material, It is especially fond of nesting in holes. about Colgan: This spring I noticed some sp building beneath the r of my neighbor’s house, gaining entrance through-a crack. They appropriat- ed every cranny and corner about our own place, including several boxes ber longing to other birds. “When these resources were exhausted one pair built their bulky nest in the eave- trough. When the rain came the water-channel was blocked; then the mischief -of the birds was discovered and the nest removed. When no-a- pertures are available, the sparrows will build their large, unsightly nests in rees. One pair built in an \eibie tie on our lawn, and another fo a pine tree, about twenty-five feet} from the ground. - The sparrow raises from three to six broods during the year. On an average about four weeks elapse from the laying of -the t eggs to. the time when the young brood leave the nest. It Jays from four to seven eggs in a set, deposited one week. Twelve or-thirteen days are required to hatch them and the young are fed in the nest for. about a week, and for several days after leaving it. ; A serious.charge against the house sparrow is that.-it drives away our useful native birds, especially the Aah ple martins, tree swallows, wal- lows, barn swallows, .blueb Fund house wrens, whose nests or nesting- Al go Rs valuable &, agreeable for bluebirds, * eat Teambesa rows appropriated it. I remo their nest, ‘but they hastily built an- other. . The blue came and ex- " a and commodious house to be erectéd{ places are coveted by this pestiferous great eohaiats. Often anz t destroy the nests, + ig and dig of these birds. ts +. Last spring I put up a nesting-bor| the 251 Be tect..it from the usurpation: : a this}. -perniciqus alien. Ries ere have dnereabed in ers-and “are now. 80 widely. dist distributed in: pees 6 gales that they opted woe ous prob- lem in economig sei : thas been proved beyond Soubt. tent theee alien birds do immeasurable injury by the destriction of buds and blossoms in winter and spring,-frnits of various kinds in season, garden vegetables while young and tender, the grain at all stages of growth. . They are specially destructive. when the grain is ripening. At his season they visit the fields in immense flocks end de- stroy many acres. They are very fond of wheat, while oats are their Sea: choice. The sparrows also do considerable injury by their filth. In large town and cities shere these birds ane zs Dundant very many ornamental ‘trees and vines are annually injured from this cause alone. Mr. Robert: Ridg- way, ornithologist of the Smitieon-; ian Institute, says: “The sparréw is infirious to orna- mental vines, by. the chemical action of its, nt: The luxur- fant English Sonce covered portions of the Smithsonian building. was thus totally destroyed.” It is true that thé ‘sparrows de- stroy insects at. certain seasons, es- pecially when feeding their young. Yet the official bulietin of the United States-Department of Agriculture, re- garding this bird, says that it ig not a habitual insect-eater, that it does not prefer insect food and- th it seldom produces any perceptible.ef- ‘fect on the numbers of any species.of injurious insect. “There is not a species of injurious insect that-the sparrow- has been known to iy; even in small numbers, which js-not much ofteney, devoured by native birds. Thus the sparrow does no kind of beneficial work as an fnsect- déstroyer which would not be much better done by native birds, ayhile its presence prevents other birds» from accomplishing- many kinds’ of work which the sparrow does not undertake at all.” The good and’ bad qualities ‘ofthe house sparrow have beer Europe for centuries. ~ For” ra~ tions in Gasiend much “money “has been expentied in destroying this pest. Recently there has been discovered an old book of church warden’s accounts of a parish in Bedfordshire. v- eral entries show that the parish, in the. eigtheenth century, was paying the parishioners twopence a dozen for dead sparrows, with a view of their destruction as a public. enemy. Here are a few of the entries for, the year. 1757: es £8, d. Paide thos. fawik for a st iad ~— sparrohs ee ee oe ed 00-00 4 ee ? Pale ‘ont f Allin for sparos LB Lect oedets es We 00 6 Paide er a Headghog and * BORER nw ee EN Tes : 4 Paide for heghogs. and pol- - “*: cats and spros ..... “Spros and polcats!” How diss ust ed the British people must have with the sparrows to give then’ Ruch an ignominious classification! © ~ The evidence against the E sparrow is, on the whale, overw jish elm- terminate the pest, yet. its numbers| may he greatly reduced. An effect- stroy the nests at\intervals of ten or twelye days throughout the breeding season. This method. of attack .was adopted in one town of 4,000 ihhabi- tatits and 20,000 eggs were destroyed ber of sparrows. was greatly redyced. Another effective way is te.déstroy the sparrows by trapping. A number of excellent traps for this purpose have been designed and are described in Farmers’ Bulletin 493, issued by eulture..- a : . Phe Next War In the + oad. A height of 20,000 feet an engine 5 E 7| ditions he doubtless ive way to prevent increase is to de-! thers beco the United States Department of Agri- st “4 chicks hatched from eggs. laid by a — Sagreteag ibe ead : : ;| appearance The skin consists ‘of two] parts, vis, the dermis or eorium| | which forms the deep layer, which is} Pplentifully supplied with both biood vessels and nerves; and the epiderm or cuticle which is external and had: neither blood nor nerve supply; hence is. nomvascular and insensitive ‘and serves as a protective. covering tor: the} dermis. It consists of a layer. of agglutioated cells which- “are eet neath thedermis are la sudoriferous or sweat glands, each of which is surrounded by a quantity ‘or. fat. These glands are round bodies, each of which consists of one or more! small tubes coiled into a ball; the} free end of the-tube opens on the sur- face bya funnel-shaped orifice. The skin ‘of the horse i# character~ ized by its great sensitivencas, which is still. further. promoted by good grooming.. Few animals, if any, pers- pire a8 freely as the horse. ... As stated, the cells of the epidermis} are formed by the dermis. “This for- mation of cells is continuous, as: is also the exfoliation of the cells of the external surface of the epidemis. The hair prevents the free escape of these scales, hence there is a tendency to accumulation; the coat also gathers dust, etc., from the surroundings; and if the animal is not groomed the coat soon becomes filled with the accumu-| lation, which becomes damp when the animal perspires.”.It.is claimed that this has a tendency to occlude the openings of the sweat glands, hence interfere with free perspiration. Whe- ther or not there much ‘force: to this contention, it is an undisputed | fact that the horse that is regularly and well groomed looks better, feels better and- gives more satisfactory service than his mate under the same conditions less the grooming. . The object of grooming is to remove the cales, dust, dried perspiration and ther foreign su In order to do this a curry comb of t some nature must be used, that when being worked by the Imad, both: with| and against the grain of the hair, will pageants the hair to ‘its exit from the ght substances. The® comb should not have. teeth sufficiently sharp to sear- ify or irritate the skin. 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When the coat is quite short the use of the comb is not nec , the stiff brush being sufficient. A finer -brush, the bearing surface of which consists: of bristles should now be used to re- move anything that still sikalae, after which the whole surface of the body. should ‘be well “rubbed with a) clean linen cloth, The tailand mane should be well brushed with the atift | brush and then combed with combs designed for the purpose, It is well, under ordinary condi- this be neglected he should be groom to reniove the ed perspiration and other accumulations’ before_he is faxed for. the night, as u - such con- Dr, J. H, Reed, 0. A: college, Guelph. White Diarrhoea of Chicks. many deaths among young chicks. of thé time, They- from the rest of the e ome rough and t wings droop. They eat tittle or nothing although they mechanically peck at things. A thin whitish or creamy sticky discharge comes from the vent and clings to the down, frequeeee clogging up the vent. The birds be- cone short backed or hunched up mostly die in a-fow days,—a few, however, survive. Post .mortem. shows are i ver may have a few dark aren The.trouble usually starts with ‘ected 4 lets ing. While it may be possible to ex- pa birds bag tel gta es and re-} examinati loss of flesh; the ‘Sabotaptisa. canal is | Yewets MEATS - A full supply of Fresh Moats will wees greet your: stol eyes at this re. We tomers. You are not urged, pt you. ever bu t back and 2 will DOMM'S, takis pride in cutting meats to “please our cus to take what. you do not waat. of us meat not as repeneey ted, return the money. bring ap “The Mod®rrt MEAT MA RKET FARMING IN BABYLON. Farm Babylonia in 1, ad ‘BS. fond the temple hel This disease is .responsible fore tul. Tablet No. 150 in the Yale Uni. versity collection of Babylonian tab- ig a carefylly-drawn lease of farming and grazing land rented out by the Biblical king known as Bel- | \ shagzar. t Balshagzzar was doing had been deo for nearly a thousand years prier to his era,-as other but more mutilated bricks. attest. The rent of the farming and grazing ead rly 5,000 measures of meta beane 2: coe Fain de = eeeriagtes ta large volume of business Wate having to use his money. He erpay or buy In wool, oil, ir, dates, millet, er need not go short or he embar- rassed if he did not have ready money. Inthe same way, it lent him money, both with interest and’ with- out interest; It toaned him seeds at dates tn eS If the date crop the demand and the farmer was left with dates that went dry on him, they wére not a logs. One record “the delivery of old dates to the tetaple to be ground.” used in pre-Bibi fields. At least a dozen tablets thle tell-of tron hoes have come down to us, an inventory of iron hoes in “— temple storehouse, among them be distributed to temple laborers ‘Maa to farmers. Indeed, the teinple looked after the eo year of our eewal advice from the temple was “his, The outs drew up his deeds, mortgages, etc. One deed of exchange at Yale is interesting. Two . individuals ex-~ mane properties. The one Le has drawn the larger field agrees to set apart “in uity” a strip of land een the roperties for common use in tilling and gtasing. vi is di Other chicks: in the hatch soon up th {ana Meer or, if: boop See ecitae ae tie Sale. - bact ; he drop a prosperous, . This really as @some arly ee da snee os ler paid), seeds were aa him | jt The most ¢ iipedi-™ preads... Those ch that. © produce brought to of the medical student is a 7 ae reer Be I 088 ‘the temple the be Gis of. skeleton, and at the moment there usually have diseased ovaries, conge- There are of sheep and | is a consi @ dearth in the latter quently the eggs which lay are Ermer at 2 he the temple to the| commodity... liable to -preduce:. in the time; there is a| Before the war, medical men and chicks héd from them. “In addi-} toy ge inp loan’ of sheep of high | students of Great Britain used to pur- tion to this, however, their egg-laying en ge Leer! were branded | chase the materia! required for carry- powers will be low, and the a srt es ‘kh the ownership, | ing out ana inations from infertile eggs’ among those that are ae seem to have ry been the best breed Now, for some unaccountable laid will be a | percentage. - Con- | #2 “country. Farmers were glad. reason, the supply has been greatly sequently it is bad policy to use for | t¢ teat or-borrow a few are es dee and, ushappily, the pro- > purposes. those birds that | eat rt a alba te . a fiteer has also mapped te: hed a sutered ftom white diarrhoea _ After ey returned the | ‘five guineas was w as or ade “were yt vee fei the temple, and,their | a cémplete skeleton in pra-wat times; eh were enriched by the | now the price. is at least ten guineas. A certain humor is lent to the sit- gate Grange found a | uation by the a in. medical all the products of the farm. , journals of advertisements asking the othr th laws that prevented the | loan’of a skeleton for a short period! ; » Clay |. tt the savoury conversation turned | between Bob Sawyer and his fellow- « tudent, “Benjamin Allen, x tife help ‘breakfast-table, when 4 rt o Mae 4 with details ne mone vetase w “eon-* ethane petition for the pos- caslow of © skull al “Bart's.”