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Page 215 - Gulls, provided as they are with long wings and great powers for flight, are not confined to the sea-coast, hence they reach far inland in their migrations, feeding extensively upon insects like locusts, June-beetles, crickets, etc., large numbers of which they destroy annually. Several kinds of these birds are known to follow the plow and pick up the white grubs and other insects that are turned up and laid bare. In early days, when grasshoppers did much harm in this state, numerous flocks of these...
Page 114 - The prairies in their wild state were covered with the richest possible grass flora. There was no similar region that had so many useful species and so few poisonous or injurious ones. Almost any square mile of the whole extent of territory could furnish in one season 50 kinds of grasses and native forage plants, grasses that would make from one and a half to two tons of hay per acre as rich as that from an Old World meadow. It was a magnificent legacy to the rancher and the farmer. To the one it...
Page 219 - Several years ago the beet fields in the vicinity of Grand Island were threatened great injury by a certain caterpillar that had nearly defoliated all the beets growing in many of them. At about this time large flocks of this bird appeared and after a week's sojourn the caterpillar plague had vanished, it having been converted into bird tissues.
Page 78 - Elkhorn there are a fewdwarf oaks, but not enough to furnish any permanent supply of wood for fuel or timber for the settlers. It is evident that the greater portion of the western half of the State of Nebraska must remain unsettled or be inhabited sparsely by a people devoted to pastoral pursuits.
Page 217 - ... hawks and owls of the United States are injurious. Of these, three are so extremely rare they need hardly be considered, and another (the Fish Hawk) is only indirectly injurious, leaving but two (the Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks) that really need be taken into account as enemies to agriculture.
Page 216 - 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, and therefore does but little actual harm in the way of destroying grain. In fact it only takes stray kernels that otherwise might be lost...
Page 218 - ... food, are ants. It is accused of eating corn ; how little its stomach yields is shown on another page. Fruit constitutes about one-fourth of its whole fare, but the bird depends on nature and not on man to furnish the supply. Judged by the results of the stomach examinations of the Downy and Hairy Woodpecker and Flicker it would be hard to find three other species of our common birds with fewer harmful qualities.
Page 219 - ... cut-worms, grasshoppers, army worm, beet caterpillar, etc. Even when it visits our corn-fields it more than pays for the corn it eats by the destruction of the worms that lurk under the husks of a large per cent of the ears in every field. Several years ago the beet fields in the vicinity of Grand Island were threatened great injury by a certain caterpillar that had nearly defoliated all the beets growing in many of them. At about this time large flocks of this bird appeared and after a week's...
Page 202 - The solution that we recommend is from 3 to 4 per cent for grown hogs and about 3 per cent for small pigs. In our experience we have not found any harm resulting from dipping very young pigs. Spraying and dipping for lice can be highly recommended, as it is the only safe, rational thing to do if hogs are in any way infested with lice: and, as stated above, there is not a breeder of hogs who has not been troubled with this insect.
Page 116 - bunch grasses," and can not quickly adapt themselves to the changed conditions which require them to spread by sending out creeping runners beneath the sod. Their numbers have always been kept up by free seeding. Clearly, then, if the grazing quality of the ranges is to be improved, they must be so treated that the nutritious native species of grasses and forage plants can spread by means of the ripened seed. This can be accomplished by dividing the range up into separate pastures and grazing the...