. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. June, 1032 BETTER FRQIT Page Twenty-five tunate as to have screech owls attach them- selves to his orchard should consider him- self especially favored, for the good they will do in keeping mice down 's beyond calculation. Now that mice are becoming such a menace to many orchards, certainly ever)'thing possible should be done to pre- serve these owls. They are with us the year around. Another thing about the owl and one that is particularly valuable, is that it hunts for food at night when most other birds are at rest. It thus follows up the day-work of the roden
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. June, 1032 BETTER FRQIT Page Twenty-five tunate as to have screech owls attach them- selves to his orchard should consider him- self especially favored, for the good they will do in keeping mice down 's beyond calculation. Now that mice are becoming such a menace to many orchards, certainly ever)'thing possible should be done to pre- serve these owls. They are with us the year around. Another thing about the owl and one that is particularly valuable, is that it hunts for food at night when most other birds are at rest. It thus follows up the day-work of the rodent-eating hawks, providing a con- tinuous check on the four-footed vermin of the ground. Practically all birds have some value to us. There are many more that have not been mentioned in this article. Some that must not be overlooked are members of the finch family. There are largely seed eaters, destroying immense quantities of weed and grass seeds. Blackbirds also live on insects and seeds. There are the little chicadees, and nuthatches, who spend thel winter in large flocks, always busy hunt- ing on the bark of the trees the small insects the woodpeckers overlooked. The fly catchers, including the phoebe birds, and king-birds are capturing their food supplies from the air throughout the- summer. Last but not least in value are the warblers, constituting a very large family. The food of these birds is very small insects, such as plant lice, including aphis and scale, which are such a nuisance to the fruit and vegetable grower. | Benefits from Organic Fertilizers {Continued from fage 8) \ seventy per cent. This discovery refutes the idea that nitrogen alone is responsible, for the increase of the leaf growth. To quote from Mr. Long's article in the Saturi/ay Evening Post: "This better leaf production in the early growth stage is especially important, because the leaf's ability to absorb carbonic acid gas depends upon its size. Therefrom follows the fact—proved when Ricdel
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