Show bird story when mr andrew young returned from ala afra last fall he went ont to his ranch on youngs river to dig his potatoes passing a hollow tree he noticed several bushels already gathered he looked around the patch but saw no signs of anyone having disturbed the ground and to solve the mystery watched the tree he was soon rewarded by bee ing a flock of blue jays alight on the tree and each bird had a potato in its bill which was dropped into an opening in a limb and passed on down to the ground he procured backs and as fast as one was filled another was put at the place and in this way the birda harvested fifty bushels of potatoes for him from various patches around the country astoria ore express |