THE WAIL OF A TOWN DESERTED BY SPARROWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2502, 17 January 1887, Page 2

THE WAIL OF A TOWN DESERTED BY SPARROWS.

. --The wftr against- the eparrowa " has beoH pushed to completion. Tho'spar-' vows We. entirely .disappearedj : and Instoffd-of their chirping what Have we?Simply thousands upon thousands of caterpillars." One caMot'walk'tlirougji' a grove,, or even " along the streets, without a dozen or more of these insects; ;tod have an equal sumbpr fall oji' 'lji? p ; ehon,, "f| Iff lioficea; wli'oie . Of',, .buuditiga Covered ivit]i' i tlxese little.objects, ant| : oven, tllb-interior of our houseß ; are not free frofb the 'incursions of the caterpillar. . It is tte natural results tKf and 4'|Welign df.oSr These birds .were imported to this country froia England in order to

us from the caterpillars, . Boston were'being. destroyed by;, tfi^little •: insects. ,The sparrows «w6i'e'brought Ithere and'the trees suffering ; and.dfcseeured a lot with- tie -same result.: birdg • the wYageiofthe 'telHai® food dingy fat Atr' 1&© .'law pro- ■ tected ouiisnged soon, 'witli-;fimnkind's usualness th'e ldndqffices of -tlie- sparrows were forgotten, and at the instigation of a: few sour-tempered, cross-grained, heathens, who'can see nothing good in; nature,. the ;.prqtectiye laws >%s■ re ■ moved," and Ithe ..vandaiistic ppjrit v of our race soon deprived the country of one of its .greatest, blessings,.;'ln-th e thinly settled regions.tliej sparrow, wil 1 ■sipmdr vegetation is4he,,nioi'ej;p be priz.ed'ea .•SGqM)up.t'(»r guird of our trees aiid crops is wnoi vedand'the'caterpi in >vhicli wa'JS; will 'tiext spring be a" swarm : of. : little white arid yellow butterflies siieh as •we-'iave never • had; before, ihea© butterflies will lay 'tbeir inillio.us .of .eggs, and in ' Wlieii 'they m hatched, the land mil bo ooyered with such'-, an -, innumerable multitude .of littleC caterpillars' that'' opr.. crops and our fruit, and "shade trees will be eaten up, It iB ' well known that none of our 'grains are safe from the attack of the.insects, and the peach and 'the apricot trees are the only fruit-bearing trees which, are not attacked. Unleps'our littla sparrows come back noxt 'year- from the places where ' they have not been exterminated, we shall have to import another j,lot of, birds to .save us from the miseries of a famine.—Bethlehem, Penn, Daily Times.