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Rh was so, would not they speedily become much more addicted to corn? I think there is not a doubt about it.

Sparrows do much good to the farmer, in conjunction with many other little birds, by consuming vast numbers of the seeds of weeds. I think not nearly enough has been made of this by their friends and supporters. The following is a list of those which have been actually identified, with my authority for each:

Wild spinach (Chenpodium bonus-henricus), Mr. A. Willis. Knot grass (Polygonum aviculare), Mr. F. A. Lees. Black or corn bindweed (P. convolvulus), Mr. F. A. Lees. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale). Goosefoot (Chenopodium album), Mr. F. A. Lees. Field mustard (Sinapis arvensis), Professor Macgillivray. Chickweed (Stellaria media), Colonel Russell. Mouse Ear (Cerastium triviale) Professor Macgillivray. Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), Professor Macgillivray. Dock (Rumex crispus), Mr. F. A. Lees. Pale-flowered persicaria (Polygonum lapathifolium), Mr. F. A. Lees. Buttercup, Mr. H. N. Slater.

These seeds will spread from a hedge, the sides of which are not brushed with a reaping-hook in the summer, and make a field very foul; so that everyone must admit that sparrows and small birds generally do some amount of good by keeping them down. A