The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-10
Forest, Fuel and Water Power
Discussions Must Take Back
Seat For Series Of Lectures on
Americas Wild Fowl--Msny
Noted Men viii Talk.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug S.-While
the greater part of the program of
the second National Conservation
Congress. to be held in st. Paul Sep
TENDER ., 6, :, s, ., no doubt will be
devoted to discussions by experts on
forests, fuel and water power. there
will be one feature that will give
the proceedings Il touch Of heart in
terost.
1t is that pertaining to the birds.
Everybody loves birds. Even the
hunter who goes out ana Stays the
game fowl admires the bird and he
is no man at all if. after he has shot
an excellent specimen of the quail,
grouse, partridge or duck he does not
feel a little sorrow in his heart as
he picks up the dead bird and places
it in his game bag.
That the birds are Of great value TO
the United states often has been
shown. There is an old saying that
everything is put on earth for some
good and sufficient cause. y person
is likely to question this assertion
and is never more like to do 50 than
when he thinks of certain kinds of
bugs and insects that kill the trees,
the growing grain, the cotton, the
flowers, plant life in general.
Right here, however, you can see
why the bird is placed ON earth. His
song is beautiful to hear and his
plumagc grand to look upon, but it is
the little beak that pecks necessarily
from sunrise to sunset that is of great
value to the people of the land.
VIII Illustrate Talk.
Francis NJ. Chapman, curator of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory is coming to st. Paul to dc'iN-
er IN the auditorium one one 81 the
evenings when the conservation con-
-.tss IS in session, an illustrated lee
'ulc N birds. Mr.. Chapman has
st,rcoDtican views of birds in every
c.sib}e pose. He probably knows
ncrc aIuut birds than any otacr man
in america. He will tell about the
value e the birds to the farmrt par
tl"u.arlV ana Whist Interests The man
Nhp produces tn" food tn ue0pie
consume. will interest every body, for
Ian must eat.
10 quote William l.. Finle., of the
National Association Of Aud bon So
cicties. VIII give an idea of the value
II thc bird in donlrs and cents He
said:
For years our wild birds have
been rapidly decreasing. As a re-
| suit. millions of dollars are taken
| from the pockets of the farming
class every year to fight insect pests,
and this amount is increasing. The
inroads of the HeSsian fly upon the
wheat crop in 1904 We're estimated at
$50. 900, 900. The cotton worm is a
great menace in the south, where it
DESTROYS from $25,0O0,OO to 10000
! 00Oamnuall of the cotton crop. The
cut worm is a pest that is prevalent
throughout the country; although he
loss is widely distributed and not felt
SO heavily, it is enormous. The cod
ding moth Injuries fruit crops to the
amount of $2O,OO0,OOO annually.
With the continuous loss of bird life
in our country. the loss from insect
ana rodent pests last year was esti-
mated at the enormous sum of $780,
OO0. 600.
Birds Protect Trees.
"Without our birds our forest would
be swept as by blast of fire. our
trees would look like an army of tel
| cgraph poles. Last year insects caus-
ed an estimated loss of more than one
hundred million dollars to the trees
of the country. DO YOU know that
400 different species of insect are
continually working on the oak tree
alone" The birds of the forests are
constantly catching and consuming
these insects.
Careful analysis of the stOmachs