Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1911 — “ The Wise Owi. [ARTICLE]

“ The Wise Owi.

"In a hollow tree, during my vacation. I found two young owls,” said a student. “1 also found in the same nest two eggs. Puzzled that the mother owl rhould have abandoned her setting ere its completion. I laid the subject before my fanner host.--“The fanner told me that country people know well that the owl, after hatching half her brood, leaves the other eggs to be hatched by the newborn birds. These young are warm blooded, they are helpless- to leave the nest and tn nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the mother would have done. “I’d consider this a superstition if I hadn’t seen a proof of it.**