The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-04-18

doing what insects have been doing from the time of
creation Have you noticed that tho words of the Bible at the
time of the creation of the I'd and the birds Of the
given mention of f'wers BEING named? Milton
thinks that left to Eve TO name the flowers Insects
are absolutely plant e transferring pollen that
NAV found In few instances the relationship so
nounced as to suggest almost intelligence the insects
accidental assistance by of
their furry coats
of the danst Sort have had this mind when
they wroe will bear the closest Inspection She invites
level with the smallest leaf and take an In
sects point Illustrated too by an exquisite story from
the French 1.-THE Strawberry Plant by Bernadne st Pierre
Insects may carry smallest grains of pollen but left
the birds to carry seeds birds duty the
two fod-the dissemination seeds and the reproduction
rather the of insects The balance of life perfectly
adjusted afford interfere attempt improvements
knowledge gained through the most careful stuy of Ma
lures laws.
Of course hunting and laws another
question experiment large for the mans
sons Bird protective associations sprngng everywhere
The league Sportsmen doing noble work bird
protection They stand for the highest type of who hunt
hope for the day when will to hunt Do know
in belt section of the country noted for its differ
this subject? There stigma resting for
repued wholesale slaughter of the Robin is true the bulletins
received specify Waycros first in the fray but this may
be of courtesy Someone in Waycross have similar pleas
specfv brownsville or Fitzgerald as the benghted spot What
hooking bird the habit of eummerng in the North
and winters return? The Robin the North what
Mockng Bird to faYore ongster Birds sing where
their homes have heard robin sing The subject of
bird migration should be Informed 1t
invests bird life with Every child should be taught
it, An Acknowledgment boy will put aside his sngshot for
and he will resort to the study OF bird eggs IN the instead
lof through collection
Though the Robin is John Burroughs favore he has said
o the beautiful things about the Blue Bird Il convinced that
everyone should have bird table and dogwood tree in full
their windows become better acquainted with the door
yard birds The of the birds like people, especially
if the table, eating drinking Even the Jay for all his
antics bad habits delight because of his beauty
his solderke uniform always immaculate soldier should be-
am sorry to acknowledge Mockn Bird though Quaker and
of
much praise develops selfshness.
In the insect world we have similar examples of mans mis-
taken interference especially through the introduction of insects
from the old world Like adventve weeds they often the
hardest and the tenacious An intelligent knowledge Of the
obnoxious and beneficial insects of great
of birds is said that Pennsylvania lost four
million dollars through the of field mice be-
of the wholesale slaughter of owls and hawks the previous
the result of law gnoanty made and encouraged rewards
do doubt but the invasion Of the Army Worm
traced the destruction of birds 1t probably due
the destruction of quail and doves The persistent destruction of
beautiful forests which have but hardly touched upon
the subject not the drying of the
and resultant THU SOIL but the elimination bird life They
will seek distant forests for food and meat and
fields will be let to the of the insects AS sad Nature
adjusts her balance we'll cannot afford amper With them
until wisdom. The history of of plant
insect might we'll repay the devotion life tie-ther real
actions their habits and distribution constitute
haustible study
Not until realize this do fully appreciate Tennyson
beautiful lines:
Flower is the crannied WALL
| pluck you out of the crannies;
hold you here root and all, in my hand,
Little flower, but if I could understand
Wha you are root and all, and all in ALL
| should know what God and is.
Southern Sociological Congress
ATTY ANITA TIA