We have a good feeling about most birds, and consider them to be a friend to man. Yet when it comes to the crow, we have quite a different attitude. We know that the farmer sets up “scarecrows,” and hopes to keep these birds as far away as possible. While crows are somewhat helpful as scavengers, they are really quite destructive. To begin with, crows are expert thieves. They not only steal the eggs in other birds nests, but they often carry off the young! They even invade barnyards in search of hens’ eggs, and will malice off with newly hatched chicks if they can catch them. The worst complaint against crows is the destruction they do to crops. They simply eat up so many crops, and destroy so many cornfields, that the farmer considers crows one of his worst enemies.