Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE]

Home Town Helps

BIROS’ PROTECTIOIt-W PARKS Subject Ip Engaging the Attention of Town Authorities. In all Bectione of the Country. In many eastern cities, where the winters are most severe, the park, officials maintain feeding stations for wild birds. Even as far up in “the frozen north” as Minneapolis a number of such winter feeding places arefound in every park of their extensivesystem. Theodore Wirth, the * superintendent of parks, says: “We have a long severe winter and find It necessary to feed birds regularly every day for months if we tire to hold them in our parks for the _ summer. We have also built and placed a large number fit nesting boxes or bird houses which, are well populated. We protect birds in every possible way and the local Audubon society is doing excellent work. A good many binds of birds which wehe rarely seen here a few years ago are now. found in large numbers, and many which fornfbrly left In the fall now stay with us over winter.” We have, In mariy parks, sufficient shrubbery for cover, we are not troubled much with cats, yet park men should be required.-to kill all found within the several larger parks and to keep none except a single eat in each storehouse. Encouragement should be given in every way to the Increase of native birds and those of bright plumage and sweet song from other lands should he Introduced. The country, not the city, should perform the office of introduction of new kinds. In a climate so mild as ours there should be a thousand-fold as many birds as we now have and the parks should be filled with them. —Los Angeles Times.