Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1878 — What the Yellow-Birds Eat. [ARTICLE]

What the Yellow-Birds Eat.

A farmer wanted to borrow a gun from a neighbor to kill some yellowbirds in his field of wheat, which were eating the grain. His neighbor declined to lend the gun, for he thought the

birds useful. In order to satisfy his curiosity he shot one of them, opened his craw, and found in it 200 weevils and four grains of wheat, and these four grains the weevil had burrowed. This was a most instructive lesson, and worth the life of the poor bird, valuable as it was. —Warsaw Union.