The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . irds should make us lenient toward the latter when we find that they share our taste for fine cherries, luscious grapes and the different berries. The wren, especially the house wren, feeds only oninsects. There is no more useful bird on the farm,and it should be protected by all means. Dr. S. D. Judd, of the Agricultural Department inWashington, D. C, observed a nest of about three-fourth grown wrens. There were three nestlings, andthese were fed by the mother wren no times in fourhours, thirty-seven minutes, receiving and consumi
The school and farmA treatise on the elements of agriculture . irds should make us lenient toward the latter when we find that they share our taste for fine cherries, luscious grapes and the different berries. The wren, especially the house wren, feeds only oninsects. There is no more useful bird on the farm,and it should be protected by all means. Dr. S. D. Judd, of the Agricultural Department inWashington, D. C, observed a nest of about three-fourth grown wrens. There were three nestlings, andthese were fed by the mother wren no times in fourhours, thirty-seven minutes, receiving and consumingduring this time in insects and spiders. Among theinsects he identified i white grub, i soldier bug, 3 mil-lers, 9 grasshoppers, 15 May flies and 34 caterpillars. The food of the old birds is of a similar kind. The diagrams on page 222, taken from the Yearbook,show the character and relation of food of the houseswallow^ catbird, wren and others. The usefulness of the swallow has gained for thisbird the special protection of several European gov- 222 NESTLING. ^—House Wren. aDULT. [1, Cutworm ; 2, spider ; 3, stink-bug; 4. May-fly ; 5, weevil; 6, grasshopper.]
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