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Is Game of any Value to the Fai'mer ? 1 1: 



the chrysalis and the perfect insect. Insectiverous birds 

 being migratory, destroy the perfect insect during the 

 summer months. During the autumn, winter and 

 spring, game-birds depend largely for food upon the 

 egg.-^, larva and chrysalis, and as insect destroyers are 

 more effective than insectiverous birds ; the grouse and 

 partridge especially are most active in seai'ch for such 

 food. 



The Ontario Entomological Report, 1881), contains 

 valuable information, some of it indirectly useful in this 

 connection. It will there be found that anyone who 

 walks in the rural parts of France will see small children 

 following the plow^ pitcher in hand, collecting white 

 grubs, this work being done in England by birds. That 

 nearly all useful birds are exterminated in France, and 

 that on [two-and-a-half acres a single woman collected 

 759 lbs. of white grubs or cockchafer larvse in 15 days, 

 the number being 180,000. 



The remedy for the army worm and cut worm will 

 give the general reader some idea of the insect plague 

 in Canada. 



" They may be prevented marching from one field 

 to another by ploughing a deep furrow across their 

 path. This should have the edge nearest the field to be 

 protected perpendicular or slightly overhanging the 

 trench so formed, pits must be dug, about twelve feet 

 apart. When the caterpillars come to the trench they 

 are unable to climb up the opposite side, and after a few 

 trials walk along till they fall into the pits, where they 

 may be destroyed by covering them with earth and 

 tramping it down." 



The abundance of rich food in orchards, cultivated fields 

 and gardens, encouniges the development of insect life. 

 Nature supplied birds, and more particularly non-migra- 

 tory birds, to keep these pests in check. Small birds and 

 insectiverous birds are protected by the law, but are now 

 seldom seen. 



