Excerpt from Attracting Wild Fowl No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. When the first barn swallows came to our tile shed, on our little farm at Kingsville, Ont., they nested 300 feet away - as far away as they could get from where we were working. We protected the swallows from their ...
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Excerpt from Attracting Wild Fowl No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. When the first barn swallows came to our tile shed, on our little farm at Kingsville, Ont., they nested 300 feet away - as far away as they could get from where we were working. We protected the swallows from their deadly enemy, the sparrow that man brought to Canada - the English sparrow; not the one that God put here, don't forget that. They destroyed the first brood, but we protected the swallows and consequently the sparrows did not destroy any more. Remember, the shed had stood there for ten years, equally as inviting. The second year there were two nests; the fifth year there were twenty nests in the tile shed, and, instead of being asfar from us as they could possibly get. Fifteen out of the twenty nests were within twenty feet of where we were working. They had come to us for protection. You have to believe that. They destroy large numbers of house flies. The ladies say - of course, the ladies never tell what is not true - that there is not more than one house fly now where there were five previous to the coming of these barn swallows. Purple martins, and so on. Scientists tell us that the fly will carry that deadly disease, typhoid, and, if we preserve the swallow which destroys these flies, surely it shall be well with us and we shall prolong our days. We protected one nest; now, one hundred swallows are raised in that shed every year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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