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and eastern stales are paving out 

 $15,000,000 a year for Paris "green to 

 put on their potato vines. Wliy? Be- 

 cause tlie (|u:;il, tlie natural enemy of 

 lliat bug, has lu'en almost exterminated. 



Eacli of the great apple prodiuing 

 states is paying .*!, (100,000 to 5<3.0(M),(IOO 

 a year for spraying apple trees to keep 

 down the codling moth. Why? Be- 

 cause the vvoodi)eckers, the sapsiickcrs, 

 the robins, the blue jays, the bluebirds, 

 the orioles, the tanagers and other birds 

 that formerly preyed on this insect 

 have been kilh-d ofl', and every man, 

 woman and child who eats an apple or 

 a potato helps to pay for this poison. 



Of the 1,200 species of birds inhabit- 

 ing the Cnilcd States, about 335 visit 

 Kansas; 175 of these nest in the state. 

 In calculating some of the worth of 



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these birds to the state, we will use the 

 Massachusetts estimate of five birds to 

 the acre. Kansas, with her 51,200,000 

 acres, slmuM have a bird i)opulation of 

 250,00(1, (JiiO. Insect-eating birds con- 

 sume 111 a very conservaiive estimate 

 too ii'sicls a dav. Kansas birds would 

 devour 25,0(10,0(10,(100 every day (.May 

 to S( pleniber, inclusive) for live months 

 or 150 days. 



That these figures can be belter un- 

 derstood it has been computed that 

 abnul 120,000 ;tverage-sized insects fill 

 a bushel measure. This means that 

 Kansas birds consume 213,333 V-i bushels 

 of insects a day. Then for 150 days 

 (live months) thev would use a total of 

 32,000,000 bushels of insects. 



Again, by Mrs. Nice's careful observa- 

 tion we are enabled to state that 10,000 



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average insects weight one pound, and 

 that one bushel of inseels weigh twelve 

 pounds, so Kansas birds, from May to 

 Oetober (five monllis), eat 381,000,000 

 pounds of insects. This estimate is good 

 for about live montiis of the year. May 

 to September, inclusive. During the 

 lemainder of the year the insect eggs 

 and larva> destroyed by our late fall, 

 winter and eaily spring migrants will 

 be equivalent to half of this (juantity. 

 Kansas has a longer season than Massa- 

 chusetts, and 1 will consider a full one- 

 h:df in our estimate. 



Pounds 

 Five months' consumption of in- 

 sects 384,000,000 



Seven months' consumption (Octo- 

 ber to M.ay) of insects 192,000,000 



Grand total for the year 570,000,000 



To elucidate further for my own edi- 

 fication (I cannot comprehend large 

 numbers), let us see how many carloads 

 (minimum weight 24,000 pounds) this 

 will be — answer, 2-1,000 cars. Our rail- 

 road agent tells me ,50 cars 42 feet long 

 with the loconKjtive, tender and way 

 car would make an average train. Then 

 it would require 480 trains of .'iO cars, 

 measuring from cow catcher to rear of 

 way car, a total of 2,200 feet, and if 

 these 480 trains of 50 cars each were 

 coupled together in one continuous 

 straight line they would extend from 

 the Kansas-Oklahoma state line on the 

 south to the Kansas-Nebraska state line 

 on the north, a distance of 200 miles. 



Gentle reader, try to estimate the 

 worth and practical benefit of Kansas 

 birds to our great agricultural state. 



What do these feathered protectors 

 of our gardens, farms, plains and for- 

 ests require for this service? A place 

 in which to nest and rear their young 

 in security. These friends and servants 

 are constantly diminishing in numbers. 



Are you devoting your spare time and 

 affection to your house cat and her 

 kittens? Each cat consumes on an av- 

 erage of fifty birds a year. Are you 

 arming your boys with small guns that 

 they may become sportsmen? It re- 

 quires much practice to become a good 

 shot, and any kind of a bird makes a 

 good target. Are you constructing nest 

 boxes for martins, bluebirds, wrens 

 and woodpeckers? We have fairly good 

 laws, but we need a better one provid- 

 ing for the teaching of ornithology in 

 all the grades of our public schools. 

 Identify yourself with some bird pro- 

 tection society, and let us all assist in 

 saving one of our nation's most valu- 

 able assets, our native birds. Let their 

 destruction go on and in a compara- 

 tively few years insect life will have 

 multiplied to such an extent that trees 

 will be denuded of their foliage. 

 Plants will cease to thrive and agricul- 

 tural crops cannot be raised. This is 

 not fancy, but a truthful statement of 

 plain facts, the evidence of which is 

 observed every day in the disappear- 

 ance of myriads of insect pests with the 

 devastation which follows. 



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