Show SAVE MONEY FOR FARMERS direct testimony showing woodpecker Wood should be protected Protect ti by all agriculturist we are assured on high authority that it if birds were as numerous toil today as they were 60 years go it mean a saving of many million dollars dollar to american farmers the tha slaughter tei ot of migratory birds Is surely follower by the tha increase of destructive insect among the far farmers Mors bird friends friend firl br the woodpeckers especially the ltd led headed members of the species I 1 in P proof roof there Is cited the following tollow ln instance A pair oj of r them nested in toil 1 I dead cottonwood tree tre near an orchard or chari arlL one day the observer watched the then through a pair of glasses the young birds were about half grown tin the parents made 06 trips in ono one hour each time with a worm it Is onto to say that they saved 00 apples la in that hour a box bos worth say 1 if tm ifill the ali birds worked ten hours a day were worth 10 to the tha owner of 0 that orchard or in the three weeks the bards were in the nest it Is plain pla to lall B then that no farmer can afford a woodpecker |