A French naturalist asserts that if the world should become birdless, man could not inhabit after nine years time, in spite of all the sprays and poiscns that could be manufactured for the destruction of insects. The insects and slugs would simply eat all the orchards and crops by tbat time..
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7070, 11 April 1901, Page 2
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51Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 7070, 11 April 1901, Page 2
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