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endured and 80 unskillfully resisted invasion and
spOliation by the Mortimer that they had come to
be regarded as the sea-kings' natural prey. For
generations it has been customary hereabout 10
slaughter without the birds and let cater
pillars worms, grasshoppers, Sc. multiply and
ravage unresisted. We must pay for past errors by
present loss and years Of extra effort. And pre-
cisely because the task ia so arduous, ought to
lose time in addressing ourselves to its execution.
The first step 10 be taken is very simple. Let every
farmer who realizes the importance and benef-
cence Of Birds teach his own children and hirelings
that, except the Hawk, they are 10 be spared pro-
tected, kndly treated and when necessary fed.
They are TO be valued and cherished the voluntary
police of our fields and gardens, constantly en-
plOyed IN fighting our battles against ruthless
foes. The boy who robs birds nest is robbing the
farmer Of part Of bis crops he who traverses farm
shooting and mangling its feathered sentnels diin
ishes its future product Of Grain and nearly destroys
that Of Fruit. The farmer might as well con-
sent that any strOlling ruffan should shoot his
Horses or Cattle his Birds. Begin at home to
make this truth felt and respected and il will be
the easier to impress it also on your neighbors.
Next, there should be neighborhOOd OF township
associations for the protection Of nsecteating birds
We must not merely agree to let them live-we must
cherish and protect them. / believe that very sim
pie cups or bowls Of cas-iron having each hole in
its center Of suitable size that need not cost six
pence each, and could be fastened to the side Of
tree with nail lightly driven would in time be
adopted by many birds as nesting strongholds,
whence they might laugh to scorn their predictions
enemies If every harmless bird could build its nest
among US in place where its eggs would be safe
from hawks crows cats, boys and other robbers the
number Of such birds would quickly be doubled and
quadrupled
And we must summon the law TO our aid. Though
law can do little or nothing against stealthy,
slulking nest-plunderers ii can help materially
in our warfare with the cowardly vagabonds who
traverse our fields with musket or rife, blazing
away at every unsuspecting robin or thrush that
they can discover. Make it trespass punishable
with fine and imprisonment, to shoot on another's
land without his express permission, and the cow
ardly massacre Of the farmers humble allies would
be checked at once and, when public sentiment had
been properly enlightened, mi CHI, in civilized
gions, be arrested altogether.
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