Barnyard grass 2,500 Milkweed 770 Beggar ticks 1,400 Peppergrass 2,400 Black mustard 2,500 Pigweed 12,000 Burdock 600 Plantain 12,500 Crab grass 2,000 Rabbitsfoot clover 30,000 Curled dock 4,175 Round-headed bush clover 1,800 Dodder 1,560 Smartweed 2,250 Evening primrose 10,000 White vervain 18,750 Lamb's quarter 15,000 Water smartweed 2,000 NOTABLY BAD INSECTS EATEN BY THE BOB-WHITE (Prof. Judd and Mrs. Nice.) Colorado potato beetle Cucumber beetle Chinch bug Bean-leaf beetle Wireworm May beetle Corn billbug Imbricated-snout beetle Plant lice Cabbage butterfly Mosquito Squash beetle Clover leaf beetle Cotton boll weevil Cotton boll worm Striped garden caterpillar Cutworms Grasshoppers Corn-louse ants Rocky Mountain locust Codling moth Canker worm Hessian fly Stable fly SUMMARY OF THE QUAIL'S INSECT FOOD Orthoptera--Grasshoppers and locusts 13 species. Hemiptera--Bugs 24 " Homoptera--Leaf hoppers and plant lice 6 " Lepidoptera--Moths, caterpillars, cut-worms, etc 19 " Diptera--Flies 8 " Coleoptera--Beetles 61 " Hymenoptera--Ants, wasps, slugs 8 " Other insects 6 " --- Total 145 " * * * * * [Illustration: THE BOB-WHITE For the Smaller Pests of the Farm, This Bird is the Most Marvelous Engine of Destruction Ever put Together of Flesh and Blood.] _A few sample meals of insects_.--The following are records of single individual meals of the bob white: Of grasshoppers, 84; chinch bugs, 100; squash bugs, 12; army worm, 12; cut-worm, 12; mosquitoes, 568 in three hours; cotton boll weevil, 47; flies, 1,350; rose slugs, 1,286. Miscellaneous insects consumed by a laying hen quail, 1,532, of which 1,000 were grasshoppers; total weigh of the lot, 24.6 grams. "F.M. Howard, of Beeville, Texas, wrote to the U.S. Bureau of Entomology, that the bob whites shot in his vicinity had their crops filled with the weevils. Another farmer reported his cotton fields full of quail, and an entire absence of weevils." Texas and Georgia papers (please copy.)