CONSERVATION 



We cannot read much nature literature of the present day with- 

 out coming upon a plea, either implied or expressed, for ^'conser- 

 vation." Even the child will wish to know — and there is grave 

 need that he should know — wdi}^ many people, and societies of 

 people, are trying to save what it has so long been the common 

 custom to waste. Boys and girls living in the Eastern States will 

 be interested to know who is Ornithologist to the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture, and what his duties are; those in the 

 West will like to know why a publication called ''California Fish 

 and Game" should have for its motto, "Conservation of Wild 

 Life through Education"; those between the East and the West 

 will hke to learn what is being done in their own states for bird or 

 beast or blossom. 



Fortunate^ the idea is not hard to grasp. Conservation is really 

 but doing unto others as we would that others should do unto us 

 — so living that other life also maj^ have a fair chance. It was a 

 child who wrote, from her understanding heart : — 



"When I do have hungry feels I feel the hungry feels the birds 

 must be having. So I do have comes to tie things on the trees for 

 them. Some have likes for different things. Little gray one of the 

 black cap has likes for suet. And other folks has hkes for other 

 things." — From The Story of Opal. 



