The farmer and mechanic., 1910-11-15
No WE KNOW THE VALUE OF
OUR GAME AND COMMON Birds
OF THE STATE?

We should Ask Ourselves the Ques-
tion. as Well as Discuss the Real
Value Of Insect -Eeating Birds to
Our Farmers, and the Income to
North Carolina Derived from Our
Came and Fish Resources.
To the Editor: During the past ten
wears there has, been a splendid prog
ress in nearly every State OF the Onion
showing the Improvement OF the real
ya,ue Of game and the figures as
shown here are verified by the Agr1-
cultural Department at Washington,
y G.. as we'll as the Agricultural De-
partment at Raleigh. It seems that
this IS a subject worthy OF our con-
sideratIon.
Our Legislature meets every two
years to consider what is best suited
! for the uplifting Of our State, to pass
laws and to appropriate money to pro
tect the States interests. Up to the
present there has not been one penny
appropriated out Of the State funds
for the protection Of our game and
, insect birds that are SO valuable TO
the farmer.
In 1903 the Audubon Society, which
no we3ists in forty-four counties Of
the State. was formed. the object Of
which was 20 promote among our peo-
pie better appreciation Of the value
of our game and the 1nsecuverOus
birds This society, prior to the Leg
islature Of 1909. was in force In every
son fifty-four were taken from under
the jurisdiction of the Audubon So
ciety, and the enforcement Of the
game laws was placed in the power OF
the county missioners in their re-
spective counties. No one can doubt
that the Audubon Society did a great
good, but they were somewhat handl-
capped in their work by the very
small funds which they had to operate
with When we stop to think of the
man ythousands Of bulletins and valu-
able literature that was sent out to
the people OF the State, showing the
value of birds of field and forest OF
our State, IS well as the hundreds Of
prosecutions that were had and did
not cost the State a single penny,
| This amount has been contributed by
the pDb1ic-spirited citizens and those
who had the interest OF our Comm on
wealth at heart
To say that our game and insectiv-
erous birds are not Of great value is
to doubt the Agricultural Department
Of our United States, as we'll as to
doubt our worthy commissioner, w A.
Graham. and his STAFF, who are in
charge Of our State Agricultural De-
pactm ent.
A very conservative estimate Of the
value Of our game in our State each
year IS a million and half dollars,
and the real value Of the insect and
seed eating bird to the farmer can
hardly be estimated.
If these stateme ents are facts, as I
am quite sure that both the Agrfcu1-
tural Departrn ent at Washington and
our department at Raleigh will verify,
hen IS not this worthy Of our time
and consideration Let us put in mo
ton such laws that may be State wide
and effective. and not insist on our
little local laws that are so detrin ent-
al to the General law of the State
Let q commission be formed who may
have the power to see that the game
laws Of our state, as we'll as the fish
laws, are properly enforced PIT be-
hind them sufficient funds so that
they NAV act. A small tax from the
resident gunner would be proper
This would have tendency to create
funds by which this commission could
work. as wei as to drive frrno the
field a number Of worthless men who
not only destroy the game during the
breeding season, bat refuse 70 work
on farms when good wages are offered.
when they can shoulder q gun and 90
to the woods and get sufficient gam
to live on.
There are many reasons why our
same, birds and animals should be
protected, and a post card, written to
the Agricultural Department ct Wash
lnEton, asking for their bulletin on
their value Of game birds, or to our
department at Raleigh. will bring
them free to YOU
MILFORD W HAYNES
Tarboro. n, G, Nov, s.
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