La Petite Culture en Belgique

Abstract

I ENCLOSE drawings of earthern pots, which I observed nailed against the south side of a farm-house near this. These pots are for sparrows' nests, and the young, when fledged, are taken and eaten. I think this form of “La petite culture” cannot be commended in a country so swarming with insects as Belgium, and I infer from the careful make of the pots that the custom is not a new one, though it may be new to some of the readers of NATURE.