Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1898 — France to Protect Song Birds. [ARTICLE]

France to Protect Song Birds.

France has a law forbidding the slaughter of birds smaller than larks. Nevertheless, piles of such birds are offered, for sale in the markets of many French cities. A movement is now under way for enforcing the law and saving the song birds and the fields which they keep free of injurious insects.