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37 grasshoppers and 2,400 seeds of pigeon grass, by a 
six-weeks-old chick. 
65 large black crickets, October; no grain or seeds; half 
of these crickets must have been females and packed with 
eggs. 
84 large and medium-sized grasshoppers, October, by 
a seven-week-old chick; no seeds or grain. 
700 insects, 300 of them grasshoppers, by a laying hen 
in July; about one ounce of insects. 
1,532 insects, 1,000 of them grasshoppers, weight nearly 
an ounce, by a laying hen in July. 
48 grasshoppers (19 gm.) and 10 gm. seeds, by an adult 
in October; together a little over an ounce. 
Interesting tests were also made to determine how many 
weed-seeds of a single kind a bird would eat in a day. They 
were not given insects or grain, but were always allowed 
all the green food, apple, chickweed, lettuce, cabbage, etc., 
they needed in addition to the single seed offered. Some of 
the tests were: 
Burdock, 600; 
Curled dock, 4,175; 
Dodder, 1,560; 
Black mustard, 2,500; 
Plantain, 12,500; 
P i gwee d, 12,000; 
Beggar ticks, 1,400; 
Rabbit’s foot clover, 30,000; 
Smartweed, 2,250; 
Evening primrose, 10,000; 
Lamb’s quarters, 15,000. 
By this method Mrs. Nice has added sixty-one weed- 
seeds to the sixty-eight species which the Department of 
Agriculture had previously discovered by stomach examination. 
Among the additions are such pets as “puslev, ’ Canada and 
bull thistle, dodder, fireweed, wild carrot, ironweed, plantain, 
mullein, oxeye and yellow daisy, burdock, and witch grass. 
