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to ignore. Hence an appeal is made to 
the Northern farmer to aid in the work 
on the ground that the insect enemy of 
the farmer of every district is the com¬ 
mon enemy of the country, and that a 
full measure of success is to be obtained 
only through co-operation. The im¬ 
portance to the cotton planter also of 
colonies of swallow^s is emphasized, and 
the best means of increasing their num¬ 
bers in the Southern States is set forth. 
Among the foremost of the useful allies 
against the boll w^eevil are swallows. 
As is well known, the food of these birds 
consists almost exclusively of insects, 
and hence to the agriculturist they are 
among the most useful of birds. They 
have been described as “the light cavalry 
of the avian army.” Specially adapted 
for flight, they have no rivals in the art 
of capturing insects in midair, and it is to 
the fact that they take their prey on the 
wnng that their peculiar value to the 
cotton grower is due. 
Other insectivorous birds adopt dif¬ 
ferent methods when in pursuit of prey. 
Orioles alight on the cotton bolls and 
carefully inspect them for weevils. 
Blackbirds, wrens, and flycatchers con¬ 
tribute to the good work, each in its own 
sphere, but w^hen swallows are migrating 
over the cotton fields they find weevils 
flying in the open and wage active war 
against them. As many as forty-seven 
boll weevils have been found in the 
stomach of a single cliff swallow. 
The idea is to increase the number of 
sw^allows both at the North and the 
South. The colonies nesting in the 
South will destroy a greater or less num¬ 
ber of w’eevils during the summer; 
while in the fall, after the local birds have 
migrated. Northern-bred birds, as they 
pass through the Southern States on their 
w'ay to the tropics, will keep up the w^ar. 
Swallows are not as numerous in the 
North as they used to be. The tree 
sw^allow, for instance, formerly abound¬ 
ed, but of late years its numbers have 
greatly diminished, owing to persecu¬ 
tion by the English sparrow. This 
unscrupulous foreigner turns the swal¬ 
low out of its nest in order to have a 
place for its own eggs. When swallow 
nests contain eggs or young, the mur¬ 
derous sparrow kills the helpless nest¬ 
lings or throws out the eggs. 
The barn swallow also is diminishing 
in numbers, owing partly to enmity of 
the sparrow, but more, perhaps, to the 
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