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Show ALL FRUIT GROWER'S FRIENDS Birds That Should Be Protected Are Listed by the American Forestry For-estry Association. The American Forestry association has published the fact ,that a cliff swallow will eat 1,000 flies, mosquitoes, mosqui-toes, wheat midgets, or beetles in a day. The crops of four chickn leus showed 1.028 eggs of the cankerworm. Take notice, Mr. Fruit Grower. A quail killed in a Texas cotton field had eaten 127 boll weevils, and a prairie prai-rie chicken had over 300 of them in its crop. The bob white has been iknown to eat 135 different kinds of insects. It has been estimated that this bird will consume an average of .75,000 Insects and 6,000,000 weed seeds In a year. House martins, swallows, and swifts eat rose beetles, may beetles, bee-tles, cucumber beetles and house flies. The quail eats Texas fever-currying ,ticks; the killdeer and other shore' 'birds feed on the larvae of disease-carrying disease-carrying mosquitoes; a night-hawk's, 'evening meal consists of 500 adult , mosquitoes. |