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Show PROTECT THE LITTLE BIRDS Fruit Growers and Farmers Lose Immense Im-mense Amount of Money on Account Ac-count of Ravages of Insects. (By WALTER B. LECTZ.) Farmers and fruit growe-s of the country are losing over $1,000,000, 0U0 a year by reason of the ravages of in-5ecU. in-5ecU. Cotton growers are losing $50.-000,000 $50.-000,000 a year by reason of the ravages rav-ages of the boll weevil. And all because be-cause the quail and the prairie chick-e. chick-e. the natural enemies of that bug, are practically extinct. Wheat and fruit growing regions are suffering because of the killing off of sap suckers, robins, bluejays, bluebirds, blue-birds, orioles, tanagers, martins, swallows, swal-lows, swifts, nighthawks, egrets, herons, her-ons, bobolinks, gulls, kingfishers and other birds which men love to kill under the pure lust for slaughter. A quail killed in a potato '"eld had in its craw the remains of 101 potato bugs. Another killed In Texas had In Its crav." the remains of 127 boll weevils. wee-vils. Another killed In a . Kansas wheatfield had the remains of 1,203 chinch bugs. |