Q. Dr. Wilson, from your fund of in formation and its bearing upon the life of the child of God, we would like to ask you to deal with some phases of the strange habits of birds. I am sure that there is a great design behind it all. A. Yes, there is that master design back of it all and this I noted very clearly two or three days ago, Dr. Tal bot, when out in the suburbs here. There were three baby birds in a nest and the mother bird was busy feed ing them. The first question that came into my thinking was, how did she know what kind of food to give these little fellows? They had no feathers on them and they could not see their mother but when they heard her near the nest they all instantly opened their big mouths in unison. Also I was fas cinated to watch her as she knew exact ly which one was to be fed next and she knew the size food they could swal low. I watched a starling feeding her babies and she fed them, without miss ing, from right to left. Tell me, who taught the mother birds how to feed their babies? An interesting experiment was made by a New Jersey man who got some sparrow eggs and put them in an in cubator. It took two weeks to hatch | them and when they were ready for food he fed them with a medicine drop per and then with other food to bring them into a good growth. Then he put them in a cage 12 feet square made of chicken wire. On the floor of the cage he put grass, twigs and such things as the sparrow uses for building a nest. Then he put a ledge upon the side of the cage and watched the birds build their nests. They had never seen a [ nest or other sparrows and did not see I their own parents. But they built the most beautiful nests and then they sat on them and each laid two eggs and did their best to hatch them but they were not fertile. Tell me, how did they know that they ought to have a nest and who taught them how to
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