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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, 1918 



in its thousands even in 1882 is mani- 

 fest on reference to Thompson Seton's 

 "Birds of Manitoba." Still, as we 

 said before the grouse survived. 

 Surely the inference is obvious. It 

 was not the crow but man who upset 

 the balance nature had provided. 



It is impossible here to go into 

 details as to the crow's actual econo- 

 mic standing and also unnecessary 

 when the work has been done so 

 thorouehlv by the U.S. Biological 

 Survey^ See Bulletin No. 621 "The 

 Crow and its Relations to Man." 

 This is a work that all should possess 

 who wish to gain the real facts. It is 

 for sale by the Superintendent of 

 Documents, Govt. Printing Office, 

 Washington, D.C., at 15 cents. This 

 work is one of very wide appli- 

 cation, and is the result of a very 

 comprehensive weighing of evidence, 

 both from the examination of stom- 

 achs and field observations. The 

 evidence provided includes many crow 



stomachs collected by my brother 

 Stuart, in Manitoba, a single one of 

 which contained no less than 45 

 white grubs, an insert recognized 

 as extremely noxious. However, my 

 object is to call attention to this 

 work not to quote it. I think when 

 it has been read imp-artially that the 

 reader will conclude that the crow is 

 not cfuite such a malefactor as you 

 have described it and that while it 

 unquestionably does some harm by 

 destroying eggs and young birds, 

 its value to the farmer, as a consumer 

 of noxious insects, is also worth 

 considering. 



Personally, I am still of opinion 

 that an effective carrying out of the 

 law, as it is at present, would in itself 

 be sufficient to re-stock our preserves 

 with the birds which man, with his 

 automobile, has been the chief factor 

 in diminishing. 



NORMAN GRIDDLE. 



Teesbank. Man., Nov. 23. 1918. 



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