BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



they were difficult to get fruit growers would 

 be quite keen about them." 



So often the real use of wild creatures is not 

 realized until it is too late. In understanding 

 and protecting the birds there is no time to lose, 

 for many have been rapidly decreasing in num- 

 bers in the very districts where they are most 

 needed. 



There is a story of a bird landlord who 

 studied the habits of birds and endeavored so 

 successfully to give them what they required 

 that they came in thousands to his estate. 

 There is also the story of the summer when an 

 insect plague came to that country and every 

 green thing round about was devoured, yet this 

 estate remained as green and verdant as ever. 

 The birds that he had attracted about him pro- 

 tected him from the insects that were sweeping 

 through the land. 



In Salt Lake City there is a monument, and 

 engraven on it are the Sea Gulls coming to the 

 rescue of a stricken people. A horde of black 

 crickets had come down upon the land devour- 

 ing every green thing, and leaving the fields 

 of bountiful crops bare as the desert. Sud- 

 denly, from no one knew where, there came 



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