The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-05-07
GREAT VALUE OF BIRDS
SAVE THE FARMERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY
DESTRUCTION OF PESTS

Now and then invaluable contribution
magazines We consider the article by Lyman Beecer Stowe upon
The Government Teacher the Outlook April
contribution dealing does with wide of subjects
from insects to good roads We herewith the section
voted to birds and their value the nation
The enomologs estimate that annually
United States not less than five hundred million dollars worth
agricultural products not for birds insects and rodents
would drive They literally devour the
vegetation of the earth Henshaw
of the Biological Survey has said e notable
rodents in the last decade certain parts
and the resulting damage without doubt due small
part to the destruction of their natural enemies chief of which
the birds prey Birds only rodents but
weeds The value of the principal field crops the United
for 1906 was DR. Henshaw estimates that the
bned weedsed consumption sparrow family results in an
annual saving cent of the value of Hence the
alone saved the farmers 100000 year.
How such facts arrived a By the study of birds
achsa study of great economic Importance DR. Fisher charge
c economic Investigations for the Survey study
sons OF the year. IL they eat pests they blessings they
blessings they pests know what bird eats you
what he is These Investigations have undermined popular
pejudes For the has always looked
hawk of his natural enemies To shoot hawk
only good sport but good business Dr. Fisher
the varieties of hawks the United States only
always and everywhere injurious while certain
seasons harmful All the others are beneficial their staple diet
being fedmice, the most destructive of all desroyers
Not long 600 of reclaimed arid land in the West
to wheat No did the wheat than millions of
edmc poured from the country began
devour it. Hawks followed and began devour the The
shot hawks kept increasing and the
wheat kept disappearing their throats
peraton the appealed to the Biological Survey for assist
The Survey expert spot them
how to kill the mice by prindng the field with chopped grain
soaked poison He showed them that the hawks their
important aesha they must give them encouragement
that enough hawks could not be coaxed into fields from the
mediate country they must import Others They followed nsruc
ons after the wholesale poisoning mice
kept the remainder reduced relatively harmless few The
hawks and the Government expert between them saved the 600
of wheat for instead of mice
birds slaughtered their pumage than any
purpose They killed in their rooeres while they
ing. Even the timid birds will leave their young
matter what the danger feeding them is the
shoot the parent birds while they feeding the young They
the young birds Thus the killing grown
birds would very likely entail the death
young birds curious anomaly that this wholesale barbary
pracced the interest of who tradition
ally enderhearted Evidently fearing that spite fashion,
might revolt did they know the truth it is
practice among the mners that the feathers which they
manufactured my authority the
rton that to manufacture feathers absolute mpossiby
far the which they prepared
market may be called
the of the Survey Roosevelt
during administration created executive order twenty-five
bird refugees Most of these desoae islands of little value
other Several of them off the Florida
the others off the Oregon AS the Government
appropriation protection they poed by
patrols of the National Audubon Society.
believe that if the people of Boise the propo
they parking the little strip along
Smith property on Grove street where the agnent maple trees
cutting the building the sidewalk
width building the sidewalk around the These
are nobody way at present could be easily spared for
years until the demands of business become imperative If
you agree with speak member of the council about
the proposition.
the Boise boy taking high rank in the home and
promise of being the seasons player When the
over certainty that he will be known baseball
Casey Casey the Bat made hit with the Amer
an people that time cannot wither
The laboring proposition extending
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