The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-05-17
BILLS TO PROTECT
MIGRATORY BIRDS
OFFERED IN SENATE
MILLIONS CAN BE SAVED BY
WISE TREATMENT OF THE
NATURAL RESOURCES.
FORTY STATES ARE REPRESENTED
Costs More to Feed the Insects Of the
Country Than to Educate the Chill
dren and Birds Will Destroy This
Barnacle

BarnacIe
Bills to provide federal protection
for migratory birds, which were in
reduced in the United States Sen
ateeee by Senator Mclean and in
the House of Representatives by Con-
gresham Weeks, have both been
reported favorably out of committee.
The former was considered by the
the senate committee on forest res.
ervations and the protection of game,
and the latter by the House Commit.
tee ON Agriculture.
In urging the necessity Of this leg
lation. the American Game Protec.
tive and Propagation Association, OF
III Broadway, Ne New Yorhk, s cYity. isayai
Millions of dollars can annually
be wise wise and conservative treat.
msnt Of the enormous natural re-
sources represented BY our migrants
Under present conditions countless
numbers Of ducks. geese, and ]. dFshore
birds are Slaughtered at time when
eevery female killed means the de.
tion Ola small flock. At, an time the
killig sgoe on at rate, that 4 all out
Of ptoborticn to thhe u. natural in in
crease MI. - n, .s,.,v..5 /
"Mr. E. v. Visart,state game war.
den OF Arkansas. reported In his en-
dorsement of the Weeks bill that
10000 birds were sent from Mississ-
ippi county in one shipment on Octo-
Der 10th, 1911. According to the /.
Gamo Warden of Louisiana, there
were 4,265. 5S5 ducks, geese and shore
birds killed in that state during the
winter OF 1910 and 1911.
"The favorable report ON the Nc
Lean Billby the SENATE committee
contains the following:
Game Commissioners and other
officials representing forty-three of
the eorty-eight states Of the Union,
together with some Of the leading
ornithologists OF the country, appear
ed berore your committee and their
testimony based upon years Of expe-
rience ana practical observation,
was conclusive of the fact that htate
control Of migratory birds must from
the very nature of the surrounding
and conditions, end in
ut is further pointed out In this
report that the annual loss to the )
country through insect pests amounts
to from seven hundred and ninety
five 10 eight hundred million dol
lars. To bring home the significance
Of these figures, the report ads that
There are, about six hundred col
leg IS in , the United States today.
Their buildings and endowments have
been centuries in accumulation. The
value, of the village and university
buildings Is estimated at $3.50, 000,-
900 and thee, endowments at $21s-
Doc, 900. If they should be destroyed
tomorrow, buildings and endowments,
he insect tax of one year would re-
place them and leave a balance suf-
'iciecnt to endow thirty new univer-
stiles in the sum of ten million
lolla1s. each
4" We have in this country today
about twenty million school children,
md the cost of their education has
become by far the heaviest tax
aid upon the surplus of the country,
yet It costs more by many millions to
eed cur insects than it does to edu-
cate our children. If there is any
way in which this vast and destruc-
i've tex upon the national income can
,e prevented or stayed or resisted in
my appreciable measure, it would
'een to be the part of wisdom to act
without delay"