412 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Cut Worms vs. Grasshoppers. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station at Morgantowrn, W, Va., an- 

 nounced that it had made a study of cut worms under glass cases, and 

 found that they turned into grasshoppers. (?) The cut worms were very 

 numerous on account of the scarcity for two years of quails and 

 turkeys, and the station warned the farmers of that region that they 

 would have to contend with a grasshopper pest this season. 



Moral — Spare the pretty little quail. 



Quails Eat Chinch Bugs. 



A farmer relates that a few years ago he shot three quails on his 

 farm. His wife, knowing his fondness for such sport, persuaded him 

 to come to the house and have his supper before going further. "All 

 right," he said, ''I'll dress these birds and we'll have them for supper." 

 His wife remarked upon the fullness of the craws of the birds, and on 

 opening one it was found to be packed full of chinch bugs. Out of 

 curiosity they counted, and found over 400 chinch bugs in the craw of 

 one quail. Said the farmer : "I just cleaned up that gun and have 

 not shot a bird since. No farmer should kill any bird that kills bugs." 



1 lie Advantage of lairds. 



It is admitted by all who know anything of the subject that agri- 

 culture would be impossible without the aid of birds, as the larvpe and 

 developed insects of all kinds would make a desert of the entire area 

 of cultivated land. This is a well-known fact, yet all over the world 

 the destruction of birds rages unchecked, and no attempt is made to 

 protect them, to prohibit their public sale and to enable them to nest 

 and rear their young in peace. The boys rob countless nests for their 

 egg collections, and we keep silent. 



A scientific writer has said that the destruction of the individual 

 is unimportant, but the destruction of the type is a crime. As matters 

 are going now, unless some stringent measures are taken, the birds of 

 America will in the next century be extinct, as is now the dinoruis. 

 Scientists tell us that already two classes of birds have become en- 

 tirely extinct and other varieties are fast dying out. The ornitho- 



