Box Elder News Journal | 1919-10-03 | Page 3 | Swallows Feed Almost Entirely upon Insects

swallows feed almost entirely upon insects if want to free the neighborhood ot of mosquitoes encourage swallows to make the themselves melves at home says a rc report of tle american forestry association cia tion these birds feed almost entirely upon obnoxious insects and they will ilo do much toward protecting orchards and other trees from insect pests no better investment can be made therefore than soine oine f houses house set out for martins or other swallows of the blue swallows the purple martin Is the largest laget the male being entirely blue above and below while the female 1 Is a nut blue above with a gray breast swallows I 1 aws are highly migratory most of I 1 them spending the winter la in south america