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Show CHECX RAVAGES CF INSECTS Nlghthawk Devours Many Mosquitoes and Feeds Exclusively on Bugs Man's True Friend. Mr. Treadwell of the Boston Society of Natural History reports that he ted a young robin sixty-eight angle r earthworms In one day. A young :row will eat twice Its weight of cutworms cut-worms a day. Think of what this means to the gardener, young or old! "Could we grow anything at all without with-out the help of the birds?" exclaims i little boy-gardener to whom I told It. In the crop of a nlghthawk were round 500 mosquitoes. That bird did the duty of tenscore screens! Think Df the discomfort, to say nothing of the disease, he prevented! In view of these facts one is almost al-most willing to accept the statement Df a well-known French scientist, who das asserted that without birds to ' The Nlghthawk. check the ravages of insects human life would vanish from this planet In the space of nine years. But for the vegetation, the Insects would perish; but for the insects, the birds would perish, and but for the birds vegetation vegeta-tion would be destroyed. Nature has, therefore, formed a delicate balance Df power which cannot be disturbed without bringing great loss and un-happlness un-happlness to the world. Home Progress Prog-ress Magazine. |