The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
,uo,ct the Birds.

--5sn. ortard and helu 49,
ga I'1 ora cts testified to by farmers
b 10 NC o.. our country. Hardly
u a. r vi,out hearing complaints oI
~ages ofhe cut worms and cater
II. and thdoss to the farmers SIR lroH II,
as e,' ',[ is imply enormous. once IN
soui'o the farmers used to have
.lrn cut own by cut worms Dat Ia
49, ~ was It's done where the lana nau
'' s.,ysn lie in the fall or during WIN
.h +aatment of the soil is not
'svs a Drotstion from the worms mere ere
Fa5e 10 NV species of worms, OF OLD
li1 s - vsied to such changed condl-
I' Tha ,rms are now a pest looked
~ srarT yea, and the farmer in many 10
;.;as who cts a good stand Oh corn 'ne
y pa, oncsuo trouble to raise fruit OF
yi9t free rom knots and other delectS'
- In. this is uo longer the case. In
~ in the orchard, and unless they
- ,,rad fruit Is not profitable crop.
~, caterpihf, so troublesome OF
vsarS was neer known to do serious
n orchards hirty or forty years ago.
o,,nlsints this pest come IN from
..otions as regtarly as the seasons roll
md and orchgds have to be gone over
~ snring and ne caterpillar destroyed.
Ill., o,rcllio is ne greatest pest of the
and neach orchards and these excel
ond nonular ruits are no longer easily
Ua4d nrodtble as they once were.
onnl4s also re greatly injured by the
.onTo Somdmes out of hundreds OF
rails Of appleonly a few perfect spacI-
4 ,s can be foud, that is, apples free from
Nc and speck: tie result of the bite OF
IL curculo.
H. arjeAy describe all the worst insects
the mischief tlev do would take up
a sraI columns, an, to be brief, we finish
3 Il mart of our subject by observing that
"A almost yearly her of some new insect
n dine on and dangling some cultivated
. 4, Ont--l1sects that oily a few years ago
ri re unknown to tb farmer.
5T6ere is a cause Wy insects do more mis-
ebjef now than years past, and the
farmsrs should loSeno time in hunting it
"A and removing j. If possible. There is
nj thing new or unsual about insects null
fhlylng 50 rapid, for they always did
Ian wien increas was not checked in some
nm but what cteks existed in the early
stteuent Of te country are out of
In way now. here can be but one an
IL er 10 this queion. When we had forests
eserywhere andolenty Of birds there was a
bit to increas OF insects, and now that
In birds are gle insects have no enemies
81 d can lucreas up to the food supply. All
Mail birds arensect eaters. and al certain
|sas rs of the ear they feed on nothing
liz. But the have been killed or driven
H6 and their bmes, the forests, have been
IN down. Sua mas been the war against
liz birds that large sec5i ms of the coun-
tn some Of theonce most common species
IA now rarely sen. Less than forty years
"a, in Jetfers Icounty, Kentucky, every
I'D ID had its ont or more fiocls of par
IA dyes, but the BIO White is heard no more.
II could name llny other species of birds
|bat were once cElnlon but are now seldom
|Rea
Fl The eggs fromwIich the cut worms are
|Atched are laid by u small miller, or but
|klfy, which sonlt birds, especially the
cartridges, are very fond Of, and feed to
nan young. IL Is asily seen how several
Acks Of cartridges Te checks to the in
lEease Of cut worm4 Tie number OF cut
HOrnS are out of all proportion to the num-
"a Of millers that LAT the eggs The de-
|Efucyion of few hudred or thousands, at
rs, Of millers at tb right time is equal to
#S'rcS ms cut Worm8nough to eat up large
q Ids OF corn. In hrge field where there
several old DartIdges and their young
many miuers succeed in laying eggs.
# The insects of the orchard were so re-
pea IN numbers, n the early settlement
.necountry, by birds, that they did little,
at least, 10 sepous harm; but now tnat
birds are greatly reduced in numbers
Fut growing is no longer the pleasant and
htabie bwiness it was.
10 the QUESTION, what must be done to
*sen the number of insects. we
"a protect the birds. Make laws
II bidding 5he killing of them at
~ time, and see that all such laws are
Niolcei. limo other country is the same
4eedom allowed with the birds as here. We
Ter the BIRDS to be slaughtered at all
*aSons of tie year, as ii it were a matter
a 10 Consequence whether we have any
4rdS or MT 1t seems the farmers have
4 uered eaough already in Consequence of
i war against the birds, and would need
II arguments to show them the necessity of
O'ecaag the birds. One thing is quite
'aln' II the destruction of the birds is
4 stopped, and that soon, crops all over
country will be annually damaged much
Eeater than now.
Il" appeal to every farmer who is inter-
s. ~ III seeing Insect depredations lessened
pioyec0 the birds. Give no one the priv
" shooting on your farm. Teach
4 1ni-ufen that they are the farmers
4 nus and are not to be hurt or in any
disturbed. Encourage them to build
nests and rear their young on your
-, NJ your yards and gardens, and in a
y'0IS you would be astonished at the
me once familiar sound of Bob
4 s' would again be heard coming from
y ned, and all kinds of birds
4 ,u multiply IN your fields and woods
j @'ouhd your dwellings, and many kinds
4 l,s'''s no" so injurious to crops would
f1ppear as pests.
southern Creameries.
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