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Show Unsalaried Weed and Bug Killers No farmer should object to pheasants on his farm.' The birds feed mostly on insects and weed seeds. A recent careful care-ful analysis of the crop of a pheasant shot in an Oregon wheat field showed insects, a fat slug, weed seeds and not a single grain of wheat. The gain of having these birds by the tms or hundreds of thousands, and letting them serve as unsalaried weed and insect killers, would more than overbalance any damage to crops due to the hunters. And the hunters pay the bird costs, out of their annual licenses. |