Show ' f ' “ I ni j fHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE JUNIOR SUNDAY MORNING APRIL Birds Prove Of Real Help i 1935 Page Five Fred Finds Best Way to Pay Boy Back' OUR POETRY CORNER To Mankind The birds are Indeed our friends Without them It would be impossible to grow the crops we do and carry on Agriculture They destroy bugs and insects which eat other forms' of vegetation It has been found that the potato bug can produce 60000-00- 0 offspring in one season A common plant louse can brin forth 13 generations in a single season and inasmuch as each female brings forth at least 50 young the number in the thirteenth generation would be 10 sextillion A scarlet tanager was watched while it was feeding in a tree infested with gypsy moths and in 18 minutes was seen to consume 630 caterpillars A northern yellow throat was watched while feeding in a birch tree infested with plant lice and in 40 minutes was seen to pick off 3500 of the little insects When stomachs and crops of certain birds were examined by experts the following were found: 217 full worms and 250 caterpillars In the stomach of two night hawks were 60 grasshoppers and 500 mosquitoes The crop of a cedar waxwing contained 100 canker worms and that of a flicker contained 1000 chinch bugs If all these bugs and insects were left to multitply it would take only a few years for them completely to cover the earth Another way the birds help us is by eating seeds of weeds and thus helping us to keep down' these pests For example from the crops of two bob whites were taken 1200 and 5000 weed seeds while two mourning doves yielded 7500 seeds of sorrel and 9200 seeds of pigeon grass They also eat the rodents which eat our ' crops But this is not the only way birds help us Some of them serve as food Now since nature has made our birds so helpful to us we Should do all in our power to protect them LOUISE EAGAR Age 11 Mammoth Every Bird Has Own Peculiarity Continued from page 2 are made for scratching in the leaves and dirt The running birds have long legs and are fitted for running The ostrich is one of this type of birds Wading birds have long slender legs so that they can wade in the water and they have a long neck and long bill fitted for picking up their food from the sand and mud Swimming birds live most of the time in water and have webbed feet Swans ducks geese pelicans are birds of this class THAYS E STANLEY Age 11 Nephi Utah back" said Fred with an angry look “Pay who ck?" asked his Un cle Phil looking up from the pa per which he was drawing on “I’ll pay him “That new at school Just because the boys wouldn’t let boy him be on the team for baseball he goes around and plays mean tricks on everyone Why today he took my new ball which we were playing ball with and threw it into the lake I’ll pay him back! Just see if I don’t!" In the meanwhile Uncle Phil had been drawing steadily Finally he said: “Come here” Fred walke£ slowly over toward his uncle and looked at the drawing which his uncle held out “What is that for?” he asked “Look Fred here is a marshy Frank is down In that place place Here is a good solid piece of ground You are standing on the very edge and if you try to pay Frank back you will slip down down into the marsh with him Revenge doesn’t pay Fred The dainty house wren was a favorite with our artists who sent that got more than their blue jay and sparrow This drawing by Knight Banneret Marjorie Miller 11 Tremonton won first place and Marjorie’s drawings of the goldfinch and the redheaded woodpecker tied for second place Knight Constant Mary Barra-clou13 Salt Lake won third place and Mary Brouws 13 Salt Lake and Chrystal Rasmussen 13 Provo both received honorable mention Our young poets sent in dozens cold mud and snow of verses about birds but most And gray skies were°a sorrowful of them were not up to our regsight ular Tribune Junior standard And the Ice on the stream still We suggest that those who are barred the sun’s gleam interested read such poems as And the pussies were snuggled “To a Skylark" Shelley “To a down tight Waterfowl" Bryant "The Birds of Kilkenney” L o n g f e Row But the brave little fellow no “Echoes" W E Henley or “The tears did he shed Darkling Thrush" Thomas When he looked on the bare Hardy cheerless place BUt he swelled out his breast and Inside Me in many sketches of this little bird Other birds share of attention this week were the goldfinch Just think it over" Fred sat down on a chair and gh Mother! I smelled the violets in ' the wood And I drew their smell inside me I saw the lake with wavelets And copied the picture inside me I sat beneath a tree and listened to birds singing And stuffed the music inside me! Mother do my eyes twinkle bright As if I’m filled with delight? That is how I feel— delighted in- side me And I feel full as if I cannot eat — As if the violets the wavelets and the music Are inside me And mother Besides them I have a poem! So I feel very very full inside me! PAGE JOAN BURKE Age 15 Chicago The First Bird He swung on the limb of a bare apple tree Where the budlings were shivering with frost And the ground down below was ‘covered with snow The poor little fellow was lost ' The winter had lingered The challenged the rest To win in a melody race Then out from his sweet little throat there arose The gladdest of glad springtime songs “Chirrup! Chirrup! The spring will soon flowers bring Chirrup! Chirrup! It will not ' be long!” The brave little fellow made us blush with shame As he sang back our hope and He thought about what his uncle had said Maybe they hadn’t been fair to Frank The next day Fred came running in: “I paid him back” he shouted as he ran in to where his Uncle Phil was sitting “I put myself in Frank’s place and thought hovr I would feel if the boys wouldn’t let me on the team After a while I went up to Frank and said he could take my place on the team for a while At first he wouldn’t as he thought it must be some trick Finally he consented to play" “Was he a good player?” asked Uncle Phil “Boy I’ll say he was He made more home runs than anyone else on the team And uncle I like him too You know I am so glad I had that talk with you because if I hadn’t I would probably never have found this new friend" PAGE EILEEN FITCH Eureka Utah clear our cheer taught how a song can help He sang again of summer And promised a brighter year SHIRLEY ANNE SYRETT Age 14 Cedar drear Answer To us along When life’s winter days are too LA VONNE ALICE BROWN Age 14 The Robin s Song He sang to me so sweetly I paused to hear his song Of damp and rainy days in spring And summer days so long Then his glad notes changed a little I could tell That when the autumn came And sadly again friend would say fareweU I brushed away a teardrop VThen Smiled for bright and My This Alpine ' Week's Puzzle |