Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — Value of Birds to the World. [ARTICLE]

Value of Birds to the World.

A French naturalist asserts that if the world should become birdless man could not inhabit it after nine years’ time, in spite of all the sprays and poisons that could be manufactured for the destruction of insects. The insects and slugs would simply eat up all the orchards and crops in that time.