Even the pigeons of New York have found jobs because of the war. They're sorting raw ergot from rye in a Staten Island warehouse. Ergot, a valuable drig, obtained from parasite-infected rye kernels, and before the war the infected kernels were sorted from the good by European peasants. Now the rye arrives in this country unsorted. Officials of the warehouse conceived the idea of calling on the pigeons for cooperation They spread the rye on a table, opened a big window, and hundreds of pigeons flocked in to eat They chose only the good grains, rejected kernels containing ergoty.