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not only have a place in our food economy but serve as well to make 
life all the more worth living. 
Nearly all of our non-game birds live wholly or in part on insect 
life and noxous weeds. Just what proportion of destructive bugs and 
Insects they devour, it is not possible to compute. But careful investi- 
gations made by competent officials fix the number at an enormous figure. 
Wild Goose. 
It is true the birds do not devour all the destructive bugs and 
insects, but there is no doubt that mankind is materially benefitted by 
the work of our little birds. 
Few of the non-game birds do any damage to growing crops, and 
even those that do steal a little fruit or grain make up to the farmer 
the loss he has sustained by their work among the bugs and insects. 
