Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Reprieve for the Birds. [ARTICLE]

Reprieve for the Birds.

While men are destroying each other in Europe, they are giving the wild creatures a respite. This is r.ot philanthropliv, but business—war business. Any one who can point a gun must aim it at the enemy. But the effect on the birds is all that the nipst ardent Audubon society could desire. France has prohibited all hunting and the sale of native game. Ordinarily, more than 1,000 tons of such game, nearly all birds, are sold in French markets, not to mention the quantity consumed by the hunters. , Two million pounds of birds represent a pretty heavy slaughter, and the absence of this destruction will help to re people the woods and fields with feathered folk. Belgium, in normal times, exports more than TO,OOO skylarks for food. Since most of these are trapped it may be that the destruction is not greatly lessoned in some parts of the country, but in or near the war zone birds are immune.—Chicago Journal,