The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-16
MILLIONS in BIRD
LIFE OF AMERICA
NEW PLAN TO TEACH SAVING OF
CROP LosS--NATlONAL UNI
VERSlTY URGED.

New York. Nov. 16.-Proposing to
save the people of this country at least
S1O,OO0,000 each year.. plans for a Ma
| tional Audubon university to be en-
lowed with one million dollars were
announced in this city today Based
upon the known annual crop loss of
one billion dollars due to the spread
ing pests that the insect eating birds
Destroy the calculations of the Ma
tional Association of Audubon socie-
ties, which is putting forth this project,
show that the teaching of bird value
from such an institution must result
in wiping out at least i per cent of
the huge national penalty for popular
lack of knowledge on this subject.
When one million dollars can be raised
for the new university, it is proposed
to at once start its work, which prom
ises to eventually contribute hundreds
of millions to American prosperity.
Every man, woman and child
throughout the United States is to be
included as a student in the proposed
Audubon university. Through hum
dreds of lecturers and teachers. who
are to be educated in the science of
natures checks to the destruction of
the country's crops and woods, the
economic principles Of bird preserya-
ton will be taught to the people of
every community. BY means of uni
versity extension and correspondence
courses the saving effect of the wild
birds upon agriculture in every Sec
ton will be presented to the workers
| on the six million farms Of the country.
Each phase of the science of economic
ornitnology will be studied at this uni
que seat of learning and presented to
the people whose material gain is to-
day seriously hampered by lack of
light on the subject
Reports from every state and county
IN the land have convinced the officers
of the National Association OF Audi
bon societies that all the American
people aro now ready and eager to
learn to guard against the money loss
that surely follows the destruction of
the couptry's feathered resources.
Only the wide presentation of the facts
and figures Of economic bird value can
ever check the alarming spread Of crop
plaques over the continent the orni-
biologists and agricultural authorities
declare. To tell this saving story to
NTA NAA~ eNANASc dhA pa4NA%M4aAly ID Tie
children of America Is believed to be
the only emergency measure that can
now avail to preserve the agricultural
and general wealth Of the country.
AS business proposition as well
as q splendid philanthropic opportun-
ity want to present the nations need
for our proposed university to ali
Americans who have the good of their
country at heart, said William Dut-
cher president Of the National Asso-
citation of Audubon societies at it's
headquarters IA Broadway, today
For every hundred thousand dollars
put into this work Of economic educa
ton, q million III sure to be saved to
the agricultural interests OF the whole
people. Successful agriculture means
general prosperity and thus every
merchant. manufacturer and business
man Of any sort Is vitality interested
and should bear his part In our present
plan to educate the public to these
great economic principles Of bird con-
servation."