. Nature-study; a manual for teachers and students. Nature study. BIRDS bered against them. Some one sees a sapsiicker Ijleeding an apple tree, and perhaps injuring a Hnib. Immediately the orchardist places the bird upon the harmful list and makes war upon it, forgetting the good this bird does in ridding his fruit trees of harmful borers, beetles, plant hce, etc. Teach the children to suspend judgment on the birds, and not to con- demn them immediately as unmitigated pests. If a cedarbird takes a little fruit, it does still more good by destroying nox- ious insects. Let the fruit taken be con
. Nature-study; a manual for teachers and students. Nature study. BIRDS bered against them. Some one sees a sapsiicker Ijleeding an apple tree, and perhaps injuring a Hnib. Immediately the orchardist places the bird upon the harmful list and makes war upon it, forgetting the good this bird does in ridding his fruit trees of harmful borers, beetles, plant hce, etc. Teach the children to suspend judgment on the birds, and not to con- demn them immediately as unmitigated pests. If a cedarbird takes a little fruit, it does still more good by destroying nox- ious insects. Let the fruit taken be considered part payment for the good done. The economic im- portance of the birds can only be determined by averaging the good and the harm they do. This is found out by a care- ful study of the feeding habits of the birds. In- vestigators of the United States Department of Agriculture and others, such as Beal, Judd, Forbes, Fisher, Weed, Dearborn, etc., have shot many thousands of birds of different species in different seasons and have examined the contents of their stomachs. From such observations we are able to say more accurately whether a bird is on the whole useful or 24. Apple Tree Showing Good Work of Woodpeckers Hunting for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Holtz, Frederick Leopold, 1870-. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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