The Washington times., 1923-12-10
The Birds Protect Your Food
Supply
All Summer They Do Guard Duty in the Fields and
Gardens. And They Are Entitled to All the
Protection the Law Can Give Them.

All summer long when in the gardens crops
are growing the birds the allies Of the are on
destroy the countless insects that the growing grains
and vegetables Without them there would be sorry and
rpeager crops in the fall
Had for the relentless picket duty of the birds
last there would be food famine
Go into any garden and you will them busy their
jobs never resting never firing AS long as there daylight
the morning catching and devoung the sOggy overfed ugs
that been sufng themselves all night the
plants the farmer is so eager to bring to fruitiOn
It is public duty protect the birds from everything
destroy them very important very serious duty
is probable that were all the birds destroyed single
multiply million fold very Soon they would
overrun every field and garden.
seventeenyear locust understand what this would mean
These pests increasing faster than they be destroyed
of ground digging right down to the earth till not
stalk is left of anything
All efforts destroy or turn them back prove futile
steadily leaving ruin in their paths Millions Of dollars Of
damages are done by them Once they have started they
not be stopped.
These fearful raids come only rarely But they would
come every year were not for the valiant little feahered
soldiers that other insect growing as do
the legions of locusts and army worms
In mort agricultural regions birds have many enemies
Men who fancy they are sportsmen shoot them wanon
their nests kill them with stones air rifles and slnQghots
important to have and enforce that will make the
killing birds costly pagtimethatw viii teach man and
boys who kill for the sake Of killing the kind lesson that
they understand.
But the most dangerous and destructive enemy the bird
is the cat the soft purring domestic Of the eside
the disheveed disreputable alley which makes its own
way IN the world, and lives by its wits.
The alley cat is the most dangerous the birds The fire
side pet usually fed to repeon and therefore not
Keen Tor bird killing as its homeless sister But the
household cat will bird hunting just by way of sport
Il it is permitted out of sight.
law should be passed requiring all licensed.
Its passage would result in the immediate destruction of all
the preyng alley cats in existence very serious
menace to bird life Also it would owners of pet cats
much more careful of the sleek wskered brutes that
ment the firesde.
Cat lovers would violently protest against such a-but
ne protests would be based sentiment ignorance two
very dangerous qualities in lawmaking
II the loose stray cats destroyed tame house
mold cats kept within bounds the birds would in
peace to raise large families would be kept fairly
clean OF destructive insects and year there would be
enough bird soldiers guard the
table growers thousands Of dollars save the people
many bushels of vegetable food of which they stand
sore need in the winter.
All members of Congress who any thought to this
matter VIII see that it really wise and excelnt one
10 neglect the enemies of the birds will
De no more BIRDS and without birds
az all save by the most costly application sprays
cldes and vast of money spent hand labor in the
fields and gardens.