start a whole flock away to the nearest woods where they 

 remain until their enemy disappears. Then back they come 

 again to their feast. The farmer tries to keep the Crows away 

 from his fields by means of scarecrows which are made by 

 stuffing suits of old clothes with hay, until they resemble human 

 forms. When set up about the cornfields, these dummies 

 frighten the Crows. Because of their a,bility to keep out of 

 the way of hunters, the number of Crows does not decrease. 



They eat large numbers of snakes, mice, worms, harmful 

 beetles and grasshoppers. As they are fond of flesh they 

 become helpful scavengers on the farm, quickly removing 

 offensive dead animals from sight. A flgck of them will soon 

 pick all the flesh from the bones of a dead horse or cow. 



Crows live together in great flocks often numbering scores 

 or hundreds. When these multitudes are nesting, their cawing 

 may be heard a mile away. If young, ones are caught and 

 caged they soon become tame and live about the yard like 

 chickens. In some cases they have been educated to talk like 

 Parrots. A smaller kind than the common crow, called the 

 Fish Crow, lives along the sea coast in our country and feeds 

 upon fish and other sea food. 



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