Show SAVE MONEY FOR FARMERS Direct Testimony Showing That the Woodpecker Should Be Protected by All Agriculturists s. s We are assured on high authority that If It birds were as as numerous numerous' today as the they were 60 years ago it would mean a saving of ot man many million dollars to American farmers Carmels The slaughter of ot migratory birds is surely followed by hy the Increase of ot destructive Insects Among the farmers farmer's bird friends are arc the woodpeckers woodpecker especially the redheaded redheaded red red- headed members of the species In proof there Is cited the following instance A pair pall of them nested in a dead cottonwood tree near an orchard One day the observer watched them through a pair pall of glasses The young birds were wele about half halt grown The parents r made 06 trips in one hour each ch time with a worm It Is la safe to tosny say that the they saved 06 00 apples In that hour hour hour-a a bo box bos worth say lOay 1 If It the birds worked ten hours a day they were worth 10 to the owner of at that orchard or or in the three weeks the birds were in the nest t It is plain then that no farmer can enn afford to kill killu u woo woodpecker pecker |