Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-07-17 | Page 5 | [Illegible] Gulls and Agriculture

dEA GULLS AND AGRICULTURE d r SwEd.Uor Tribune: Tho gulls so familiar 5 ,? ltnost a11 na,,s of Vlnh Inhabit tho sSSelican ard Gunnison Islands, situated In She Great Salt lake, from Adj-11 to Sop-aember, Sop-aember, and, being undisturbed during 2ghls season, when they breed, aro found o tho Hundreds of thousands. It Is well el?no?n tn,u lhev feed on Insects, and aro tamo thflt the farmers can catch .ic'Enem. jIt may not bo known that thev oat inlce. but in Bear River valley there aro (fl.3 of mcerno that wore honey- 58fl'E?? i?,.h ,niIc;c-ho,Rs to such an cx-3WU.ent cx-3WU.ent that the lands could not bo watered -tJjKe Wfr? not cpped. But this year accttomo patches were plowed up and beeto SSni5?iVnnid wiViVv,Ver WM turned into UioA , atlon ,d,,tch tho watcr Icd tho Mice-holes and drovo them out, and thov t?n caught by the gulls and deposited rfihips al"?ncnldQ the stream, tho gulls Bt aJ0,,F: Tvltl tho head of tho Krcam, ready to pick them up, deserting jrapelr favorite food of grasshoppers SwtBdte"twor,ns' cnln)lllap 5t ffi dirUQ ul! ,iafi n"-ver been known to eat tfClun faf, stables, or anything of fflte' StbhfrSd1' fffioJ ttfllB . JOIfN E. COX.