Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1902 — Wild Doves Should Never Be Killed. [ARTICLE]

Wild Doves Should Never Be Killed.

Col. 1. W. Brown, the celebrated ‘•bird and bee” man, of Rochester, this state, wants the killing of wild doves to be entirely prohibited at all times, fie says the doves amount to but little from a game point of view; and that they are of inestimable benefit to the farmers. They do a gdod deal in the way of eating seeds of weeds, but their greatest value is in eating insects injurious to farmers and fruit growers. Col. Brown also makes the point that at the seasons of the year when the “game hogs” get in their worst work on the doves, they often have their nests full of young ones, which are thus left to starve to death when the mother doves are butchered. We certainly endorse Mr. Brown’s suggestion to entirely prohibit the killing of wild doves, at all times.