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Cooperation and Education. Public cooperation in these 

 practical methods of all sorts described in this volume for 

 increasing, propagating, attracting, feeding, or protecting 

 birds goes hand in hand with the education of the pubHc 

 to the interest and value of bird life. It is important to get 

 people to do things such as these. They will then become 

 more interested and will do more and more. Get school 

 children to make and put up nesting-boxes, or have them 

 provide nesting-material and watch what the birds do with 

 it. Organize school squads to feed the birds in winter. 

 Let bird-lovers see that at least the rudiments of bird-study 

 and bird-conservation are taught in the public schools. It 

 is to be hoped that all who read these pages may realize 

 more fully the great possibilities in many aspects of applied 

 ornithology. These things are no sentimental fad, but have 

 come to stay. 



It seems as though the inventive ingenuity of man had 

 reached the limit in the invention of murderous devices to 

 exterminate the birds, but it is well that now so many are 

 following the worthy example of Baron von Berlepsch, and 

 are becoming ingenious and earnest in planning for their 

 welfare instead of their destruction. The foundations laid 

 by such organizations as the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies and other organizations and individuals 

 in this splendid endeavour have not been in vain. Let the 

 good work go on. 



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