Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1902 — Protect The Qualls. [ARTICLE]

Protect The Qualls.

The number of farmers who w:ll not permit quails to be killed on their lands is increasing every year, and if quail were better understood 90 farmer would allow one of them to be shot, for it is one of the birds which can be depended upon to keep down the pest of insects which injure or destroy the crops. This can best be illustrated by what Wilson Flagg, \ the naturalist, says in his “Year with Birds.” An Ohio farmer boy watched a flock of quails in a field of young oorn as they followed the rows across the field, thinking they were scratching up the corn, he shot one and examined the contents of its craw. In it he found one cut worm, twenty one striped vine bugs but not a single grain of oorn. It is only during the winter that quails and such birds live on seeds and grain, lor they prefer worms and bugs when they can get them. It is even said that the prevalence of these destructive bugs and worms is on account of the destruction of the birds.