. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Redstart iSetophaga ruiicUla). Dr. Bradley says 944 THE AMERICAN FARMER. that a pair of sparrows will destroy 3,360 caterpillars in a week. We saw the parent bird visit ayoung purple martin on a church spire opposite our windows five times in as many minutes,and each time with an insect. A brood of partridges will nearly exterminate the denizens ofan ant-hill in a couple of days. Woodpeckers are constantly employed in ridding theorchards of insects
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. Redstart iSetophaga ruiicUla). Dr. Bradley says 944 THE AMERICAN FARMER. that a pair of sparrows will destroy 3,360 caterpillars in a week. We saw the parent bird visit ayoung purple martin on a church spire opposite our windows five times in as many minutes,and each time with an insect. A brood of partridges will nearly exterminate the denizens ofan ant-hill in a couple of days. Woodpeckers are constantly employed in ridding theorchards of insects and their eggs, which they skillfully discover under the pieces of deadbark. Robbins, through the spring and summer, are continually hunting for worms andgrubs, which they find concealed under the surface of the ground. We recently noticed a common chipping sparrow capture a moth, and, upondepriving her of it, we found it to be that of a commonapple-tree caterpillar (Olisiocampa Americana), so de-structive to the orchards of New England. To checkthe excessive increase of insects is evidently the greattask which birds are intended to perform
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