BIRDS AND GUANO 



BIRDS AND GUANO 



Sea birds are of great value to man as guano 

 producers. Guano is the excrement of the bird. 

 It is a powerful plant fertiliser on account of the 

 abundance of phosphoric acid, lime, and nitrogen it 

 contains. 



The ancient Incas of Peru were fully alive to 

 the value of guano, and the birds which produced 

 it were rigorously protected. In 1853 the Peruvian 

 Government valued the guano deposits as being worth 

 620,000,000 dollars. 



300,000 guano- producing sea birds within a 

 month were slain on a guano island in the Pacific 

 to supply the plume merchants of London so that 

 they might be able to keep pace with the demands 

 of the millinery trade. Can a more brutal and 

 senseless thing be imagined than this ? 



Attila and his Huns surely were not more merciless 

 to those who fell into their power than we of to-day 

 are to wild birds. Nay, our actions are infinitely more 

 callous and brutal. 



Attila with fire and sword mercilessly smote down 

 his enemies. We of to-day strike down our friends 

 and allies. And what makes it even more cowardly, 

 if that were possible, our victims cannot retaliate. 



If you sow destruction amongst the native birds, 

 then you reap a harvest of insect plagues. If a law of 

 Nature be violated, whether wilfully or ignorantly, the 

 consequences are the same. There are spiritual laws 



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