Show SEA GULLS RETAIN reputation FOR DEVOURING PESTS the following article from the peetz pe etz L logan 0 an county colo gazette will be ot of interest to utahna perhaps the birds that did such good service for logan county colo farmers are di descendants ants of the ones that saved the crops of the early pioneers of ali the a salt like valley the editor 0 of the peetz gazette frank J pulver spent several weeks in salt lake during the summer of 1914 and was intensely interested te in the history and points of interest in and about the city this week thousands of seagulls again visited the fields in the vicinity of the george hofmann farm eleven miles south of peetz the birds came in suell such numbers that hat t they literally covered a field of some forty acres tand and presented a beautiful sight they came from the west and first alighted at practically the same spot swarms of the birds visited last year it Is said they teed feed almo almost st exclia exclusively on grasshoppers and insects and seem to care little tor for grain only on rare occasions do these sea birds visit points as tar far inland as logan county colorado |