Show the crow must be suppressed now that the world Is faced with a serious shortage of food and that the price of seed corn Is soaring beyond bounds it behooves us all to binate sharply between those birds that are insectivorous and therefore tho friends of man and his crops and those that are and hence peculiarly culi cull arly inimical to human interests among the latter family of corvi dite the crow and his cousins ravens rooks magpies jackdaws etc are adjudged to stand despite the their diet Is more or less omnivorous their depredations in grain fields nt at the time of sowing are in fact so serious that in F france rance the secretary of agriculture has issued bulletins to the various protects prefects recommending the destruction of these birds and offering information to this end scientific american supplement |