BIRDS AND GRASS."GRUB.
AX INTERESTING , EXPERIMENT..' A fanner near Kyle who was harrowing some ploughed land and was followed by' hundreds of small birds, was requestedby some of his neighbours to, shoot,i number of (he birds, with a , view to deciding whether tlicir crops were filled '(nth grubs or seeds. This experiment.has now been carried out, says the Ashburton Guardian," and the result is not what was expected. . looting at the birds feeding from the end of the paddock;.a casual observer would have thought that they were crammed, with grubs and were feeding on nothing else. However, when the birds' crops wore opened they .were found to bo crammed with small seeds, consisting mostly of trefoil clover, sorrel and rib-grass, with a few small-sized grubs, but very few.' The big, fat, fullgrown grass grubs are evidently too' big for the small birds' taste. A few starlings which wero following tho cultivator were doin.? good service, and having a rpjv.il banrjuet on. tho grubs. Farmers would, do well to encourage the starlin" by;every meaus in their power.. °
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 8
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176BIRDS AND GRASS."GRUB. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 8
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