Beaver County News | 1927-08-05 | Page 2 | Wild Pigeons Boon, not Pest, on Western Farms

Wild Pigeons Boon, Not Pest, on Western Farms Chehalis, Wash. Wild pigeons have been exonerated. Farmers near here who complained that unparalleled flights of these birds had caused heavy damage in their grain fields now find that they were saved a worse scourge, that of grasshoppers. The wild Hock alighted in the freshly fresh-ly harrowed fields where oats and wheat were sprouting to devour embryo em-bryo grasshoppers emerging from the ground. In a newly plowed tract the larva was uncovered and immediately wild pigeons arrived to clean up the pest. Since the grasshopper danger was averted the pigeons have migrated to Canada to nest.