Show snow preserves berries ber ries much of tile the food supply of the bird inhabitants of the forest areas in the heairt of the ural mountains in northeastern europe E drope consists of berries of tile the previous seasons crop the snow corn com so quickly after the berries have ripened in the th short summer season that much of the fruit Is covered with snow either on the bushes or where it has fallen on tile the ground before it can be harvested or has time to decay the snow serves as a preservative and when it begins to melt away in if the early spring the ng berries are just as fit for f or consumption by the birds as when they were first covered |