Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-04-04
in the vicinity where

laws only In the hope mat the''
may be more birds 10 kill the next
season. He seems to have no am
bition that these friends OF the
farmer should be protected in or
der that there might be more help
ers in the fight against insect dep
relations. For this reason think
the farmers of which he complains
are thoroughly justified in posting
their premises and thereby pro-
hibiting worse than useless slaugh-
ter. That the birds are killed
only during the hunting season
when they are largely graminiv.
orous il no argument, in view oil
the fact that they are dead during
the breeding and nesting season
later when they are insectivorous.
Above have been given the state
meBts of the best authorities IN
America on the question at issue
and shall refrain from expressing
my own opinions and observations,
except to say, as | have heretofore,
that my study and experiences are
fully corroborated by these emf.
uent authorities. have no doubt
hut that the people, for whom Mr..
Robinson seems so solicitous, will
be prepared tn decide whose leader
ship they will follow 1t seems o
pity that from time TO time the
half.cocked statements or articles
Of quacks are able to get into the
public prints to mislead the unsus'
pecting or the uniformed.
4 smart trick often resorted To
by unscrupulous hunters is to offer
reward for persons finding insects
in the crops of birds, after their in
sect feeding period is passed. They
are successful in hoolwinking and
misleading only those who are
equally as ignorant as the hunter
il selfish and decetful. Many in
nocent and we'll meaning farmers
have no positive knowledge on such
matters and are only too often vic
tins of glib-tongued hunters. /
have no prejudice for honest sport
or sportsmen, but have contempt
for those who, either through igno-
rance or base selfshness, would de.
prive any human being Of a friend
or helper.
Part III. In the boil weevil por-
ton of his article, Mr.. Robinson
may not be more ignorant but Is
less fair. No fact or condition is
better known among planters than
that some farms or plantations may
be badly infested with boil weevll
early i'm the season and Others near
by have not single weeyil for
some time later. This was espec.
tally true IN the early portion oI
last season. Later on the pest be-
came wide spread and very few
fields could be found in which tn,
weevils were not plentiful. The
spread, however, had not taken
place until after those fields which
! At first we're uninfested had set
| fair crop of bolls. Those planter.
who had the first weevils were the
! first to begin the fight, while theiI
| less thrifty neighbors did nothing
liz his afflicted neighbor made
careful, accurate, persistent an'
successful fight, he argued tina
there would be no need that he to-
make an intelligent campaign. A
a matter of fact the success OF tn
scattering few who made relentles
war on the boil weevil not onl.
made a profitable crop for them
selves but largely aided their les
worthy neighbors to make theirs
through having prevented or cor
trolled the early spread of the pes
and by destroying the pest in larg
numbers in the conters where 1t d
. first seemed numerous. Now COME
Mr.. Robinson, saying in effect, tbs
r ne who made no fight was wise
t, because he stood by and profile
: by his industrious neighbors' enc
= gy and efforts. The truth IL, TIN
. the fact the do.nothing farm'
r made a crop, is the strongest ev
Y dence Of the success Of the weev
fight made by his fellow grower.
Mr.. Robinson also stretches Il
f truth considerably when he sa,
d that | should have stated
|. an address at Bryan last year, TIA
r. unless the recommendations advi
Il ed be adopted and applied, the
d wouldn't be a bloom after Jul
,r This charge is perfectly absurd I
h the reason that at the time OF Il
10 address at Bryan it was already I
Il late to practice some Of the me
ID important portions Of the systt
,e advised. At the Bryan meeting
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