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Show WIRE FENCE DiriD'S LARDER. California Songster Makes Use of Quoer Storchoupe. When tho barbed wiro fonco first camo Into uso In California, cattlo owners curbed tho Inventor. Not so tho butcher bird. Tho butcher bird Ib a creature about tho slzo of a small crow, and ho Uvc3 on Insects and smaller birds. At first tho farmers who Instituted tho barbed wiro wondered how so many grasshoppers, beetles, field ralco and small birds becamo Impaled upon tho barbs oft their fonco wires. They oon learned, for tho butcher bird Is not a socretlvo creature. When grasshoppers grass-hoppers and other bugs wero plentiful, plenti-ful, ho gathered great stores und stuck them on tho barbs of tho fences. Whon hard times came, tho barbed wiro fence was to him like a free lunch counter. Now, In winter time. It Is no rnro thing In parts of California to seo tho butcher bird hopping along tho fenco wires, continually picking his meals as ho skips from barb to barb. |