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able from injurious birds, is conspicuously posted in each 

 French commune, as a guide to sportsmen, and the rudi- 

 jnents of zoology are required taught by her primary 

 schools. Parents and instructors everywhere have a duty 

 .and an opportunity to educate children in gentleness and 

 refinement. The American press is doing a gratuitous and 

 noble work for birds. The Anti- Plumage League of London 

 and ihe Andubon Society, in New York, are active. Branch 

 organizations are multiplying, a recent addition to their 

 number being at Des Moines, and headed by the governor's 

 wife. Queen Victoria, Princess Christian, and Lady Mount 

 Temple, frown upon the use of bird plumage. On women, 

 indeed, as chief cause of bird destruction, rests the duty of 

 righting this wrong. As long as demand continues for 

 bird wings, law will be evaded, and supplies will come. 

 Only fashion's disapprobation can save our birds. As the 

 same poetess entreats: 



" Oh sisters, let our protest ring 



Through all the saddened, songless land, 

 Lest He who notes the sparrow's fall, 

 Shall ask the slain birds at our hand." 



discussion. 



Pres. Smith — We can spend a few minutes now in the 

 discussion of this matter. I want to say a word about pro- 

 tecting the birds. It has been my practice for a number of 

 years not to have a bird killed for any purpose. We used 

 to find a good many nests while working in the fields, and 

 I always had my boys stick up a stake that the hired men 

 might know that there were nests there. I have moved 

 nests two and three times while the bird was setting and 

 she has not left the nest. It can be done with almost all of 

 our ground birds. We have birds by the thousands in our 

 garden through the season. 



G. J. Kellogg — I think the men are more to blame than 

 the women. If the men who own the farms surrounding 

 the places where this depredation has been going on would 



