Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1911 — The Wise Owl. [ARTICLE]

The Wise Owl.

“In a hollow tree, during my vacation, I found two young owls,” said a student. “I also found in the same nest t!LQ eggs. Puzzled that the mother owl rhould have abandoned her setting ere its completion. I laid the subject before my farmer host. “The farmer told me that country people know well that the owl. after hatching half her brood, leaves Ihe other eggs to be hatched by the newborn birds. These young are warm blooded, they are helpless to leave the nest and in nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the mother would have jbne. “I’d consider this a superstition if I hadn’t seen a proof of it.” *