Birds, The Farmer's Friends

correspondent of the Nor(h of Enguiña Farmer thus spcaks of those who divide the benofits of birds and spcak only of the evil they do : " Thoy do not weigh the good against the bad in the condemnation they pronounce upon the little servants who wait so assiduously upon them. If a rook stoal their potatoes - which a very little care and foresight would prevent - they instantly forgethow busy he has been all the year round pursuing the far more deadly enemies lying at the mots of their crops, and think only how best they may pay him off with shot and steel traps. They forget how in the gloomy November days he perseveringly followed the plow is it turaed up the grubs and larvio of noxious insects. Then it was ho to be first amung these wiso creatures in getting near the team, and so securing the fat and oily grubs of the destructive cook-ohaffel and his compeeis. There aio would-be-wisc poople iimong us who say, 'AVhy, they are only birds. Wo caunot attend to them except to destroy them. Let us plow, and sow, and reap, and market our produce and leave trifles like these alone.' Ah ! but they aro no triflos. These are active, industrious helpers of the intelli gent agriculturist. Many a bright pound iinds its way into his pocket which, but for their unrequited labor, would never got thero. It would be fruitlcss to attempt to appraise their labors at a moncy valuó. No money could buy services liko theirs. The sharpest of human eyes and the nimblest of inuiKin finpers would bungle the work, indeed, heside these porsovering and laborious toilors.