Copyright, 1920
THE BRUCE PUBLISHING CO.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
It is with much pleasure that I commend to the public this little book regarding the construction of Bird Houses. As Instructor in Nature Study at the Fairbanks Museum it has been my privilege and pleasure to co-operate closely with Mr. Baxter’s work in the manual training department of the local schools. Through his instruction our boys are proud to be considered natural guardians of bird homes in our town, which is veritably a bird sanctuary. About two hundred suitable nesting boxes have been placed in proper localities during the past three years.
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.