THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
limn Yai.uk To •Jhep.b. ‘•The service that birds perforin in protecting woodland trees is more nearly indispensable to man than any other benefit than confer on him . . . Were the natural enemies of forest insects annihilated, every tree in our woods would he threatened with destruction, and man would he powerless to prevent the calamity. lie might make .shift to save some or, fund or shade trees; he might find means to raise some garden crops; hut the protection of till the trees in all the wooo\ would he beyond his powers. Vet this herculean task ordinarily is acenmplishcd as a matter of course by birds and other insectivorous crealurcs. without trouble or expense to man, and without appreciable injury to man, and without appreciable injury to his great woodbind interests.”— E. 11. Forhlish. State Kutmnnlngist of Massachusetts, in ” I'seftd Birds and Their Protect ion.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1926, Page 2
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148THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1926, Page 2
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