The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-04

ated, OF the purpose Of carrying out
the provisions of this act, the sum
of 100000.
Disposing Of States Rights Question
In every attempt to secure legisla-
ton of this character, its advocates
have been met with the opposition of
certain constitutionalists who have
argued that it would infringe the
rights of the states The committee
dispose of this contention briefly but
pointedly. They show that for many
years European countries have pro
tected bird life by treaties, regula-
tons and international DEGREES, and
they add that the fact that several
states of the union have exercised
the right to regulate the taking of
both migratory and non-migratory
birds where suggested or desired
does not preclude the nation from
asserting it's right of protecting mi
gratory birds whenever conditions
make such protection necessary.
The power of the Federal govern
ment to regulate by treaty the TAX
ing of migratory seals and fish can
not be questioned, says the report,
and your committee can see no dis
tinction between the right to regulate
by law and treaty the taking Of seals
and fish that today may be in the
waters of one state or nation and to-
morrow in the waters of another
state or nation and the right TO reg
ulate the taking Of wild birds whose
habitat changes from one state or
nation to another with the changing
| seasons None of the European states
allow the killing of game birds dur
ing the spring months"
Insects Cost Hundreds Of Millions
In 1904. DR.. c. l.. Bartlett. basing
his estimate on the crop reports OF
the department of agriculture, assert
ed that the loss to the agricultural
industries that year, caused by in
sects alone, could be conservatively
placed at 1896, 100000; and this does
not include dollar used for insecti-
cides. State Ornithologist Forbush
Of Massachusetts in his comprehen-
sive book entitled Useful Birds,
| ildAuAhAlE AAldl il0tNA DtHAo utollOg
agricultural products to the value of
$500, 100000 year.
The details whereby such enormous
| totals are reached are available and
indicate that the scientists are not
| guessing wildly For example, the
| Hessian fly in 1904 cost the wheat.
growing states $5O,0O0,000 Cinch
bugs cost the crops in the Mississ.
ippi valley $1OOO0O,OOO in one year
Rocky Mountain locusts, in their
years of greatest activity, cost the
Northwest more than $150,OO0,000 at
one time. Thus II is seen that the
terrible loss of $SOO,OO0000 in one
year is fairly easy of proof
Fecundity Beyond imagination
The fecundity of many insects is
beyond imagination. The green Leaf
louise or aphis, so destructive of the
hop industry and many other of oui
most valuable fruit and vegetables
reproduces its kind at the rate of ter
sextIllion to the pair IN one season
These inconceivable figures mean 40.
900 for every square inch of land thai
is above the water. Placed in the
Indian file, ten to the inch, it would
take light travelling at the rate oil
10000 miles per second $500 years
TO reach the file leader.
The potato bug is less fecund. One
pair Will reproduce from fifty t
sixty millions only in one season. The
unchecked natural increase of one
pair OF gypsy moths would defoliat,
the United States in eight years.
Insects live to eat Some insects
increase their size at birth ten thou
sand times in thirty days. No less
Than l76 species of insects attacl
the apple, plum, peach and cherr,
trees 400 species are found upon thu
oak.