Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1912 — Egypt to Preserve Egret. [ARTICLE]

Egypt to Preserve Egret.

Mr. Dudgeon, director-general of the department of agriculture, states that the department is interesting itself in the propagation of the white egret, which is a great worm destroyer. Unfortunately, owing to the trad* that is carried on In Its feathers, the species had become rather rare in Egypt. A law has now been passed prohibiting the shooting of this bird, with the result that while in the beginning of the year there were only 800 white egrets at Simbellawen there are now about double that number.— i London Chronicle.