VALUE OF THE BIRDS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9177, 22 June 1908, Page 6

VALUE OF THE BIRDS.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WIT, OUT THEM. Suppose the 13,000 kinds of bii living on the eurs’h ro-day were sn/& j denly'wiped' ori ,e'xistencoJL, iW‘ e /pK J .'*3 would that faq‘. mean to you? Ym JM would miss their song yes! But Mcfl-JH else? The' 1 i '?;un would “Thao *: ..’no more n^Vi'aM sparrows I ’ : : -jae'r ■ would? ’o.’ joice to think corn safe r small birds.t ; is now des U ing, and hi __ ttv ;ens safe hawks, JBnt * farmer rejoice? grain, - add — j The first thiiig^,'^i : . ' notice would be st sWoif/T.; ' . i tens of thori^ah: 3 ■' l ' : . .'J|£ maggots .wfiich . ‘ s,t is tpffiiU , ance and which i grx jij l®‘V " ‘ is,l life. These insects| maturity and in “ turfh% frbleU /, ■ ja I'ntoid miliions.Vif eggs,-%!“‘^vi4 < ' M .The first year the /" tffv 1 * ■-.. m perhaps be ot fail ‘ XIJ? pod, every ear, - Iff weevil or gru\ : _' v 1 v? r : , 3 " warmth, of the At r § insect plagu;.-i wc* V& m The seed grain w ■ \ a wormy. From rht: “ a choked wee ;■ A ■ everv furrOvu n 9 arise—mice whul* llec V' m the grain "Ss^H'-i * ■ i ~ ! - one anoW?::, u . f 'Aj would M be polluted/^ 1 .v-,. e fy- - :#Cc'§>Sfr x vms Nature woo . ’ balance; U; ; hosts or smaller tfi(t u 'W;T. snapping of beaks, thtl f **4\P the feathered beings /3f'-aif, w&uwUAs find no substitute.’* InAust howl, ' many ySars the end woimi come ( , man may say; but'Scome iUsurely, /* would, and quickly. ” 5 *■' ‘'] ( 7 With every sprig of vegetrtioip j devoured by caterpillars, worms and grubs', our domestic flocks and herds would perish miserably. There would be no milk, no eggs, no beef, no meat of any kind. Finally, Mother Earth would dkrw. her head in helplessness, and mankind would perish from starvation, or, for a time v eke out existence bn a diet of fish. And yet farmers and orchardists in all countries are, by various means gradually exterminating the birds not havng yet realised as they surely will when the work of destruction has advanced more that the birds arereally the farmer’s friends and not Ins foes.