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through payroll savings plans will be Energy Savings Bonds, Series EE. Series H and HH Savings Bonds will not be affected by these changes.

Give Barn Owls

A Free Home

Natural Resources students at Lord Fairfax Community College are offering free barn owl nesting boxes to local farmers.

Barn owls, which often live in barns, silos, church steeples and grain mills, are tremendous predators on mice and voles. In a food analysis study at the college, Professor Robert Simpson and his students found that 96.4 percent of the owl’s diet was meadow voles. This type of mouse is especially destructive to orchards. The girdling activities of the vole destroy. large numbers of apple trees each year. The rest of the bam owl’s diet consisted of mice, shrews and starlings.

If anyone has an appropriate barn, silo or grain mill where a bam owl could enter and would like to have a nesting box put up, call Professor Robert Simpson at 869-1120 before February 28th.

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