. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . Fig. 1.—Cornfield. Lot Fig. Stubble, Lot line f trees in the middle-ground the course of Persimmon Branch CHAIN. 65 Sassafras planted by birds n arable laud is not -<» easily the Hungerford farm it almost choked a peach orchard of severalacres. On the Bryan farm it attained Buch a growth in a cornfieldpreviously used for grass that it had t be cut down with brush hooks(PI. XI. fig. 1). In another part of the -amilot high-bush blackber-ries -own by birds had to be similarly eradica
. Birds of a Maryland farm : a local study of economic ornithology . Fig. 1.—Cornfield. Lot Fig. Stubble, Lot line f trees in the middle-ground the course of Persimmon Branch CHAIN. 65 Sassafras planted by birds n arable laud is not -<» easily the Hungerford farm it almost choked a peach orchard of severalacres. On the Bryan farm it attained Buch a growth in a cornfieldpreviously used for grass that it had t be cut down with brush hooks(PI. XI. fig. 1). In another part of the -amilot high-bush blackber-ries -own by birds had to be similarly eradicated. V. - GRAIN. (S-rain had entered into the food of :)s out of the 645 birds these _1 had picked up waste kernel- and IV had secured valuable grain, which, however, amounted to hut percent of the food ofall the birds. Crow.—The crow (fig. 24) is byall odds the worst pilferer of thecornfield. Everyyearal MarshallHall, as elsewhere, a part of thefield must he replanted because ofhis * pickings and stealings. Inthe replanting was more ex-tensive th
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