Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — Birds Increase During War. [ARTICLE]

Birds Increase During War.

Wild birds which were formerly shot as game have been increasing rapidly since the war in Prance, Belgium and other countries, according to T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies. “For example, the French government has stopped all hunting,” he said, “and the minister of war has issued an order that the sale of native game .would not be tolerated. Ordinarily more than one thousand tons of native-killed game are sold annually in the markets of France, representing many millions of game birds v “Belgium in time of peace was one of the greatest bird-catching countries in Europe. More than fifty thousand skylarks, as well as hundreds of thousands of other birds, were annually trapped and exported from that coun try for food. Our correspondents have found that there was less hunting in all parts of Europe than fei>merlyt'* - ~ ■'■■■-■■ "- r - ■

St Louis has since war began shipped abroad 934,000,000 worth of army horses; . . ----r Lawyers are so plentiful that but few criminals get e chance to plead cuiity-