Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — Bird Preservation. [ARTICLE]

Bird Preservation.

Ornithologists have been saying for a good many years now that the decrease in the number of insect-eating birds and the increase in the depredations of the cotton boll weevil, the gypsy moth and ■’ the Hessian fly are closely related. But the government regulations merely provide a means. Such regulations are wort til ess unless officials charged with their enforcement are vigilant not only in apprehending offenders, but in enlisting the aid of the public in the work of conservation. The boy who looks upon a bird as merely a target upon which to practice with his new airgun must be educated, for he soon becomes th* man with the shotgun. —Exchange.