 ... and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their chief employment during the autumnal season is foraging to supply their winter stores. In performing this necessary duty they drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences,...  Bulletin of the Essex Institute - Page 142by Essex Institute - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
..." The jay is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other nuciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on...Their chief employment during the autumnal season is fomcring to supply their winter stores. In performing this necessary duty they drop abundance of seed... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pages
...most useful agents in the economy of " nature, for disseminating forest trees, and other rucifcrous and "hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and " by-fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post holes, " &c. It is remarkable... | |
 | 1820 - 572 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees, and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post-holes, &.c. It is reniarkahle what... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees, and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post holes, &c. It is remarkable what... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees, and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post holes, &c. It is remarkable what... | |
 | William Gordon - 1847 - 144 pages
...is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their chief...abundance of seed in their flight over fields and hedges. These birds are capable, in a few years' time, to replant all the cleared lands. 333. The roots of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of nature for disseminating forest trees and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post-holes, <fec. It is remarkable... | |
 | Massachusetts Agricultural College - 1861 - 608 pages
..." The jay is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other nuciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences where they alight to deposit them in the post-holes, &c. It is remarkable what... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of nature for disseminating forest trees and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post-holes, <fcc. It is remarkable... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 pages
...the most useful agents in the economy of Nature, for disseminating forest trees, and other ruciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Their...drop abundance of seed in their flight over fields, hedges, and by fences, where they alight to deposit them in the post holes, &c. It is remarkable what... | |
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