Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1913 — 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 die same nest two eggs. Puzzled that the mother owl should have abandoned her setting ere its completion, I laid the subject before my farmer; 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 in nine cases out of ten they complete the hatch as well as the mother would have done. ‘Td consider this,a superstition if I hadn't seen a proof of it"