 | Nebraska State Horticultural Society - 1896 - 312 pages
...its haunts seeking for hibernating insects of various kinds. Being a timid little creature, the quail seldom leaves cover to feed openly in the fields, and therefore does hut little actual harm in the way of destroying grain. In fact it only takes stray kernels that otherwise... | |
 | Will Carleton - 1910 - 828 pages
...haunts, seeking for hibernating insects of various kinds. Being a timid little creature, the quail seldom leaves cover to feed openly in the fields, and therefore does but little actual harm in the way of destroying grain. In fact, it only takes stray kernels that otherwise... | |
 | Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture - 1904 - 430 pages
...and devours large numbers of these enemies daily. Not only during the summer months when these vermin are moving about, but all winter, too, it scratches...barnyard fowls do much in the way of destroying many different kinds of insects throughout the summer months. Where fields of grain can be gone over systematically... | |
 | Lawrence Bruner - 1896 - 132 pages
...its haunts seeking for hibernating insects of various kinds. Being a timid little creature, the quail seldom leaves cover to feed openly in the fields, and therefore does but little actual harm in the way of destroying grain. In fact it only takes stray kernels that otherwise... | |
 | Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture - 1901 - 310 pages
...its haunts seeking for hibernating insects of various kinds. Being a timid little creature, the Quail seldom leaves cover to feed openly in the fields, and therefore does but little actual harm in the way of destroying grain. In fact it'only takes stray kernels that otherwise... | |
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but all winter through it scratches among the fallen leaves and other rubbish that accumulates about its haunts seeking for hibernating insects of various kinds. Being a timid little creature, the Quail seldom leaves cover to feed openly in the fields,... 