The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 19
To prevent total destruction of the crop duringthese invasions, thousands of men and boys,called bird-minders, have been employed eachyear by the rice-planters; hundreds of thousandsof pounds of gunpowder burned, and millions ofbirds killed. On account of the slaughter, bobo-links—though still a… … THE HOliOLINK. these ruinous ways of his. He is all beauty andmusic. Sometimes he may plunder a corn-field alittle, but in Pennsylvania he is not guilty even of that slight offense. He is known on the farmsof the North only as a bird most showy in hisdress of black, white, and yellow feathers.…
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