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For more than a century the cotton 
worm lias been a menace in the South. 
As far back as 1873 the injury to the, 
cotton crops on account of this eatery 
pillar amounted to about twenty-five 
million dollars and some years it in¬ 
creased to fifty million dollars. 
Few farmers know how to apply the 
remedy to reduce these enormous losses. 
They will give more encouragement and 
protection to birds as soon as they come 
to realize the great amount of insect 
food these creatures eat and hence the 
great amount of work they do about the 
farm, birds are very active, continu¬ 
ally hunting and eating. Their rapid¬ 
ity of digestion is remarkable. The 
time taken for food to travel the whole 
digestive tract of a bird is from forty- 
five to ninety minutes. young bird 
eats about ten times its own weight from 
the time it hatches till it leaves the nest. 
By actual count, a liyood of three young 
chipping sparrows were fed a hundred 
and eighty-seven tidies in one day by 
their parents. Birds often raise two 
or three broods during the nesting sea¬ 
A MANUAL OF MORAL 
and HUMANE EDUCATION 
By FLORA HELM KRAUSE 
OE THE 
CHICAGO ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY 
155 W. Indiana Street 
Publishers: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company. 
A large humane idea dominates the 
book; the author endeavors to remove 
the baleful prejudices which exist be¬ 
tween race and race, class and class, 
and the contempt or indifference felt by 
men toward their furred and feathered 
brothers of the field and the air. — The 
Chicago Daily Tribune , Nov. 11, 1910. 
Single copies, $1.25 plus 13c for postage 
son. so the number of insects and small 
animals destroyed is enormous. A fam¬ 
ily of four song sparrows seven days 
old were fed seventeen grasshoppers | 
and two spiders in sixtyseven minutes. I 
A bobolink fed two fledglings nine 
grasshoppers in twenty minutes. One j 
bob-white that was killed had over a 
hundred potato bugs in his craw; an¬ 
other had eaten two spoonfuls of chinch 
bugs. 
Sir. Charles W. Nash gives the follow¬ 
ing experience concerning the appelite 
of a young robin: “In May, 188!), I no- I 
ticed a pair of robins digging out cut¬ 
worms in my garden, which was in¬ 
fos! ed with them, and saw they were 
carrying them to their nest in a tree 
close bv. On the 21st of that month 
I found one of the young on the ground, 
it having fallen out of the nest, and in 
order to see how much insect food it 
required daily 1 tooK it to my house 
and raised it by hand. I p to the Gth 
of June it had eaten from fifty to sev¬ 
enty cutworms and earthworms each 
day. 
