BIRDS FED FROM ’PLANES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 13

BIRDS FED FROM ’PLANES.

For the first time in history birds were fed from aeroplanes during the past severe winter in North America. The intense cold in the United States took heavy toll of the birds, and the farmers of British Columbia asked themselves what would happen if the usual spring migration of birds did sot take place—-what would the insects do to the trees, and the crops in the summer ?. Aviators loaded aeroplanes with wheat, raisins, apples and fat for the different kinds of birds, and dropped this welcome food over wooded places, hedges and swamps. The absolute necessity for protecting the small birds that keep the insect pest down is fully understood in America, hence the unique experiment of feeding "them when Nature seemed callously indifferent about letting them, starve.