. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . about forty acres of grass were lost.^ American farmers have had many similar the ^Mormons first settled in I^tah their crops werealmost utterly destroyed by myriads of crickets that came. Fig. 27.—The western cricket tliat destroyed the settlers crops at Salt size: after Glover. down from the mountains. Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon, as tem-porary chair
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . about forty acres of grass were lost.^ American farmers have had many similar the ^Mormons first settled in I^tah their crops werealmost utterly destroyed by myriads of crickets that came. Fig. 27.—The western cricket tliat destroyed the settlers crops at Salt size: after Glover. down from the mountains. Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon, as tem-porary chairman of the third irrigation congress, told how ithappened. The first years crop having been destroyed, the]\Iormons had sowed seed the second year. The crop prom-ised well, but when again the crickets appeared, the peoplewere in danger of starvation. In describing the conditionsin 1848 jNIr. (\innon says : — ■ Insect Life, TJiley and Howard, lSOl-02, Vol. IV, p. 409. 66 USEFUL BIRDS. Black crickets came down by millions ami destroyed our graincrops; piomising fields of wheat in the morning were by eveningas smooth as a mans hand, — devoured by the crickets. . At thisjuncture sea Gulls came by hundreds and thousands, and before thecrops were entirely destroyed these Gulls devoured the insects, so thatour fields were entirely freed from them. . The settlers at SaltLake regarded the advent of the birds as
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