BUGS AND BLIGHTS 



build his house and drink and bathe in. Give him a 

 bath. A shallow pan, or an old stump of a tree, 

 with some stones sticking part way out of the water 

 for him to stand on, will do splendidly, and he will 

 repay you an hundredfold by eating aphis, cut 

 worms, cabbage worms, and many other insects 

 which injure our gardens. Have your bird bath in 

 a little sheltered spot if there are no cats around, but 

 if there are, put the bath on a post with an old pan 

 turned upside down so cats cannot climb over it to 

 catch the birds. 



Isn't it wonderful how everything was made to 

 feed upon some other thing; birds on bugs, cats 

 on birds, one kind of bug on another kind, and one 

 kind of plant (blight is a plant called fungus) on 

 other kinds of plants. That is the way nature keeps 

 a balance and does not let any one creature have 

 everything. A mother aphis has several hundred 

 babies; these babies grow up and have children in 

 less than a day. Many other insects do the same 

 thing. Just think how the world would crawl with 

 bugs if birds did not eat them. 



