. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Chuck-wills Widow, creeper, nuthatches, and titmice, doubtless eat largely of the eggs of canker-worms and otherinsects which destroy or injure the trees. Winter birds of the above species which I have shotat this time have their stomachs crammed with insects of some kind. The Baltimore oriole willeat largely of the tent caterpillar, and is the only bird which will do this. All the thrushes willeat -sv-ire worms. The swallows destroy multitudes of
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Chuck-wills Widow, creeper, nuthatches, and titmice, doubtless eat largely of the eggs of canker-worms and otherinsects which destroy or injure the trees. Winter birds of the above species which I have shotat this time have their stomachs crammed with insects of some kind. The Baltimore oriole willeat largely of the tent caterpillar, and is the only bird which will do this. All the thrushes willeat -sv-ire worms. The swallows destroy multitudes of dipterous insects (gnats, etc). In fact, tosum the matter up, there is scarcely a bird wliich will not cat largely of insects at certain seasons,when these posts are most abundant. It is a noticeable fact that many species inliabitingwoods and meadows leave their usual haunts and visit the fruit trees which are covered withcanker-worms, and largely devour them. AGRICULTURAL USES OF BIRDS. 945
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