Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Import Mosquitoes for Birds. [ARTICLE]

Import Mosquitoes for Birds.

The delicate vocal organs of song birds respond magically to special care bestowed upon the diet. For this reason, says Popular Science Monthly, birds that are cultivated, In captivity are fed specially prepared foods designed to furnish maximum nourishment with minimum labor of the digestive organs. A food which has been found especially valuable to bird breeders has for its principal ingredients Japanese mosquitoes and ants’ eggs. It is prepared by an expert on the care and feeding of birds. 'i ,%he reason the Insects are imported from Japan Is that the Japanese have a method of catching them in large quantities which as yet Americans have not discovered.