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Show I WILD BIRDS DISAPPEARING FROM UTAH The bill before the Utah leglBlat ureter ure-ter the preservation of bird life is a measure that appeals to blrdlovcrs and should receive the support of all fa rmers. An eastern magazine writer, after a careful study of birds and the good they do as insect destroyers, has placed plac-ed the value of a woodpecker at (20 estimated by the good that the bird does In freeing trees from worms and the hidden larvae of the codling moth.j An authority says that insects that prey on trees have Increased rapidly of late years because of the great de-etructlon de-etructlon of bird life. This Invasion of insects Is due entirely to the slaughter of birds which subsist upon tree and crop destroying Insects Take I the case of the codling moth and cur-culio cur-culio These are among the moat j deadly of the destructive Insects and are difficult to fight by ordinary means of spraying and specially de-j signed apparatus Eight and one-quarter one-quarter million dollars per year, it is estimated, is spent to flgbt these pests Yet were the birds only left alone they would perform thle work The nuthatch, creeper and chickadee chicka-dee are worth from to $10. varying with the locality and the condition of trees and crops The downy woodpecker wood-pecker Is also the relentless enemy of the codling moth, an Insect that dam ages our apple crops to an extent of twelve million dollars Woodpeikers search for codling moth larvae so carefully that the few that escape owe their safety to acel dent rather than to negligence of ilie ' birds Hoys go gunning lor these birds and even men, who should know bet j ter. delight in killing bluebirds, rob I Ins and any other form of bird life i i hat comes uiihln range of their guns 'The result ib Utah has not a fraction I of i lie ild birds of thirty years ago Children should bo taught to love the birds and older persona iih a ! penchant for killing should be pre-i pre-i vented by law from shooting the in sectivorous birds. |