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Show Pheasants Kill Crop Pests In response to a complaint by Nebraska farmers that pheasants were destroying planted cornfields, a game warden killed thirty-six of them for tests. Corn was found in only one crop, but in another wera found sixty-one cutworms, a third had eight June bugs, still another contained forty-two black beetles, and in all others were found bugs, woims, and seeed pods from poison ivy and weeds. Some of the corn taken from one crop appeared to be poisoned corn that had been spread about to kill ground squirrels. The poison does not affect the pheasants. |