Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1914 — Quail Will Starve Unless Given Food Soon. [ARTICLE]

Quail Will Starve Unless Given Food Soon.

"Unless something is done and done quickly to relieve the starving quail of the country every covey will perish within the next few days,” declares a well known hunter. For the last two weeks the ground has been covered with snow and the weather ha? been so cold that the quail have been unable to feed’ or find warm shelter. The farmers have simply got to get out and feed these birds. The sleet has formed a hard crust on the snow that will make it impossible for these game 'birds to get down to what little feed they might otherwise find. What’s the use of a law that protects the bird from the ruthless invasion of the unscrupulous hunter, if ths’people of the country are going to let the* birds starve and freeze. The birds are huddling in large coveys and coming up to the barn lots in quest of food and only a little trouble on the part of the farmer will save the toothless quail for another season. ■Direct wireless communication across the oceans is likely to be accomplished soon.