* * * * THE Caow.
The crow, regarded with intense dislike by most American farmers and sportsmen as a destroyer of both crops and gsme birds, at last finds a champion, and that in high govern- mental places. The advocacy, by organizations which speak for the farmers and sportsmen, of a war of extermination against the crows, has brought a prompt and reasoned defence of the birds from the Federal Bureau of Biological Survey. The Bureau is not prepared to argue that the character of the crow is without stain nor that the dislike in which it is held is altogether unjustified. It is not denied that crows do destroy crops and game, but much of the damage, the Bureau contends, is preventable. Moreover, it is urged, the crow is also a potent destroyer of injurious insects, crustaceans, rodents, and carrion, and performs invaluable service in dispersing seeds of beneficial plants. Thus, on balance, the crow is not an enemy but a friend of man.
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