Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1917 — Quail an Ally of Farmer. [ARTICLE]

Quail an Ally of Farmer.

"The meat value of the quail is Inconsiderable— negligible—when compared to the services these birds render to the farm,” a bird expert of the University of Oklahoma says. “They prey upon 145 different kinds of destructive insects and consume no less than 129 varieties of noxious weed seeds. They stay on the job 12 months in the year and labor continually when weather condition? permit. I do not believe that the land owners should permit a multitude of so-cqlled sportsmen ,to destroy _this ally of the farmer.”