BIRD PROTECTION IN THE INTERESTS OF THE NATION
Farmers, market-gardeners, and others should therefore on no account destroy small birds, or allow them to be destroyed, unless convinced, by thorough observation and examination, of the harm done to crops by such birds and that this harm is not outweighed by the good. Many a farmer and gardener, beginning as their resolute enemy, has been constrained to become a bird-protector by careful observation of their habits, and by finding in the stomachs of those instead of the grain and fruit anticipatedremains of noxious insects that had been preying on the crops. “The farmer has only lately learned to appreciate the . full value of birds as insect destroyers. More exact knowledge of their food-habits has resulted in a higher estimate of their utility
on the farm and demonstrated more clearly than ever the necessity of active measures to insure their protection.”—(T. S. Palmer, Biological Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture.)
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Forest and Bird, Issue 8, 1 March 1925, Page 5
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