one of the faithful birds who do not begin spending 

 their winters in Florida at the first touch of frost. 

 They are tremendously industrious, one painstaking 

 naturalist finding that four of them had eaten 105 

 female cankerworm moths in a few minutes." 



Me examined these moths with tweezers and 

 microscope, and discovered that each con- 

 tained an average of 185 eggs. A total of 

 nearly 20,000 cankerworm moth eggs de- 

 stroyed bv four birds in less time than it 

 takes to walk down your garden path ! 

 And what is true of the chickadee is 

 true in varying degrees of the hundreds of 

 bird species that call for human sympathy 

 and protection. It is for this reason that in 

 many states in the Union, strict laws to protect 

 insect-eating birds have been enacted by the legis- 

 latures; and it is beginning to be seen that great edu- 

 cational campaigns like that of The People's Home 

 Journal are needed to awaken popular thought to 

 conserve the wild bird life of America in the interests 

 of economic food production. 



Few persons realize how much insect food is 

 daily consumed by birds. In the work of the 

 BioWical Survev at Washington, the stomachs of 

 many birds have been found to be so packed with 

 insects that the pile when released was much 

 larger than the size of the bird's stomach. 



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