The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-17
GREAT CAMPAIGN
 TO SAVE BIRDS
 FROM STARVATION
Children of the Land Rallying to Assis. taBceOf St rm Beleagured
 S0ngsters.

New York, Jan. 17.-That many millions of snow bound birds are now facing death for lack of food in the path of the sleet storms that have re- gently swept the continent and crust ed the earth and trees with ice, has been reported to the headquarters of the National Association of Audubon Societies in this city today. Sports men and Audubon workers through out the Northwest, West, Central and Upper Seaboard- states are observing large mum bers of game and song birds apparently perishing where icy drifts are completely locking away from them the nourishment of the earth. From Kansas word has just come that Gov. Stubbs has issued a proclamation calling upon the people to feed the quail and other wild birds whose extinction is threatened. Un- less emergency measures are taken at once to give general succor to all the winged victims of the winters fury, serious loss to the bird crop guards of the country must result, ornitho- logical experts here agree.
 Rallying the children of the land to save the storm -beleaguered birds, the Audubon organization has set on foot a sweeping relief campaign in which the boys and girls of every community are being invited to join Special pamphlets giving minute in structions for the feeding of all species of American birds under ev- cry condition of winter weather have been prepared and are being sent to volunteer bird saving brigades of youngsters ill every section of the country. Through it's members or ganizations in score of storm bound states the National Association of Audubon Societies is urging inn | srs- the dying bird life of each neighbor- hood.
 Headed by sportsmen who know the haunts and habits of the native birds hs nds of boys are already setting out through the woods and fields of theiI home regions, equipped with shovels picks cord wire and big bags ot grain, suet and fat meat. At natural feeding grounds the snow is cleared from the ground and grain of bird seed scattered in sufficient quantity to tide over the storm spell all the birds that are starving in the vicinity For the insectivorous species, nourish- ing fat meat is carefully tied at con- spicuous points in the trees along the route. That the hungry hordes of birds make quick use of these free lunch counters is proved by the shrunken size of the grain piles and fat Jumps when the return trip is made
 Bird bread lines in each school yard and food scattered where the birds flock about every house are also recommended as part of the Audu- bon emergency campaign. Table scraps with bits of grain and fat may save hosts of the feathered insect caters that must be depended upon to save next summers crops from pest destruction, it is declared. So starved have the birds now become, it is reported, that the large ones will voraciously attack whole ears of corn to pluck out and swallow their ker- nels.
 we shall exert ourselves, as we have during recent hard winters, to save the storm stricken birds of this country with every means at our dis posal," said William Butcher, presi- dent of the National Association of Audubon Societies, at its headquart- CTS, Al Broadway, today. eff each American will help us in this efner- gency rescue campaign, feel sure great good can be accomplished in pro1onging the life of the birds that will in the new year form our only fighting force against crop plague and agricultural disaster. We are raising