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of nest boxes for all. One thing seenis probable, however, and that is thfit for 

 a time they will drive many of our native birds away from about our houses. 

 They do damage to cherries and other small fruits, and to garden truck and oven 

 late fruit and corn. 



Against such da-nage ^le should weighi the evidence that they destroy such 

 pests as the clover-leaf weevil, the Japanese beetle, May beetles, cutworms, 

 and grasshoppers, even more energetically than some of our native birds ^ 



Where the flocks of roosting starlings gather about hones and business 

 houses in cities, however, they are an unmitigated nuisance beyond the shadow 

 of a reasonable doubt. In such cases, the Department of Agriculture cxDorts ad 

 vocate local control measiures. These, along with many other f'lcts about the 

 starling;, are presented in a bulletin known as the "European Starling in the 

 United States"^ Farmers' Bulletin No. I57I-F. 



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AUIIOUUCB^ENT : Did you get that number? "The European Starlin^c in the United 

 States" is Farmers' Bulletin No. l^Jl-T, The English Sparrow as a Pest" is 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. U93-F, and "The Crow in its Relation to Agriculture" is 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. 1102-F. To get any of these bulletins, just write to thi 



Station or direct to the United States Department of Agriculture at 



Washington, D. C., with which this Station cooperates in presenting these talks 



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