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Show BIRDS AND THE FARMERS When an Essex farmer complaining that the pheasants were eating eat-ing his corn the game department killed two birds, examined their craws and found 200 cutworms and no corn. Almost without exception ex-ception when the scientists investigate such cases they find the same results. The farmer owes his crop to trie feathered police that keep down the bugs, insects and worms. With continuing slaughter of every form of bird life, the insect loss will be heavier and farm labor will be harder. The nation could train an army of riflemen in a comparatively short time, but it could not in a century restore the bird armies that are the farmers' allies in raising food to feed the country. Alliston (Ont.) Herald. |