 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...observing its utility in destroying insects, it has long been a custom, in many parts of the United States, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole, in gardens and about houses, as a place for it to build in. In these boxes the animals form their nest and hatch... | |
 | Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell - Formulas, recipes, etc - 1819 - 430 pages
...that it i? often protected by his interested care. It has long been a custom, in many parts of the country, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole,...hatched, the parent birds feed them with a variety of insects, particularly such as are injurious in gardens. An intelligent gentleman was at the trouble... | |
 | Cooking - 1819 - 440 pages
...that it is often protected by his interested care. It has long been a custom,, in many parts of the country, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole,...build in. In these boxes they build and hatch their yoilng. When the young are hatched, the parent birds feed them with a variety of insects, particularly... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pages
...destroying insects, it has long been a custom, with the inhabitants of many parts of the United States, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole, in gardens and about houses, as a place for it to build in. In these boxes the animals form their nests, and hatch... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...usefulness in destroying insects, it has long been customary in several districts of the United States, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole in gardens and about houses, as a receptacle for its nest. In these boxes the birds readily form their nests,... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Birds - 1836 - 296 pages
...consequence it seems particularly fond of human society. It has long been a custom in many parts of the country to fix a small box at the end of a long pole in gardens, or about houses, as a place for it to build in : here it makes its nest and hatches its young. The... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Chores - 1853 - 412 pages
...lime; this will also destroy insects, if trees are sprinkled with it. Salt and water will do as well. long pole, in gardens, about houses, &c., as a place...their young. When the young are hatched, the parent bird feeds them with a variety of different insects, particularly such as are injurious in gardens.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Home economics - 1854 - 634 pages
...confessed that it is often protected by his interested care. It has long been a custom in many parts of the country to fix a small box at the end of a long pole,...their young. When the young are hatched, the parent bird feeds them with a variety of different insects, particularly such as are injurious in gardens.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Cookery - 1857 - 730 pages
...protected by his interested care. It has long been a custom, in firm i parts of the country, to ii\ a small box at the end of a long pole, in gardens,...their young. When the young are hatched, the parent bird feeds them with a variety of different insects, particularly such as are injurious in gardens.... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 330 pages
...that it is often proteeted by his interested care. It has long been a custom, in many parts of the country, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole,...their young. When the young are hatched the parent bird feeds them with a variety of different insects, particularly such as are injurious in gardens.... | |
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It has long been a custom, in many parts of the country, to fix a small box at the end of a long pole, in gardens, about houses, &c., as a place for it to build in. In these boxes they build, and hatch their young. When the young are hatched the parent... 
