VALUE OF NON-GAME BIRDS.
Through a very large amount of scientific research it is now known that the great majority of wild birds are highly beneficial to man, that many other species do much more good than harm, and that very few do more harm than good. This information forms the foundation of the laws for the protection of non-game birds which have been enacted in many States, not at the behest of sentimentalists, for aesthetic reasons, but upon the urgent recommendation of the Department of Agriculture, for purely practical reasons. So thoroughly is the economic value of birds now established that even Italy, where destruction of small birds was greatest, has enacted laws for their protection.— The Practical Value of Birds.
“An acquaintance with useful birds of the ; farm is as important to the farmer as is a knowledge of the insect pests which attack his crops. ... Were the natural enemies of forest insects annihilated, every tree in our woods would be threatened with destruction, and man would be powerless to prevent it."—Forbush.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 17, 1 April 1929, Page 16
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174VALUE OF NON-GAME BIRDS. Forest and Bird, Issue 17, 1 April 1929, Page 16
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