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Bird- Lore 



paper and graduation essay and thus aid in further impressing upon the public 

 mind the value of bird-study and protection. Your agent has been forced to 

 this conclusion through the great number of requests for just such information. 

 This new and growing interest in the Middle West is in no way peculiar to 

 this section. 



This year the most striking legislative act favoring bird-protection was that 

 of placing Bob-white on the song-bird list. All Audubon and conservation 

 interests of the state favored giving continued protection to the introduced 

 birds as well as to the diminishing native ones. The Grange interests of the 

 state, feeling that they had suffered too long at the hands of trespassing hunters, 

 and being wholly out of sympathy with the Fish and Game Commission, but 

 having Governor Cox on their side as well as holding the balance of legislative 



THE LEGISLATURE IS THE JURY 



ONE OF THE IRELAND CARTOONS USED IN THE OHIO QUAIL FIGHT. 



