Vol. XXI 

 1904 



\ DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. I I 3 



the instinct of the savage, will persecute and kill every bird that 

 ■dares to make the county its home. 



" From the very beginning our aim and object was to awaken 

 interest and find representation in the public schools, and I was 

 instructed to write individually to each teacher, 109 in number; 

 in most cases I received courteous assurances that kindness to all 

 God's helpless creatures was taught to the children in charge. In 

 the Parochial school, the 'Address to School Children,' which I 

 had written, fell on such fruitful soil that a number of really 

 excellent, thoughtful essays were written by some of the pupils, 

 not one of whom had reached the age of fourteen. The public 

 schools evaded and avoided us, giving as a reason that the 

 teachers were already overburdened with studies. (Many of the 

 teachers, let me say, are members of our Association.) Game 

 Warden Reed had 500 copies of the address struck off, at his own 

 expense, and these have been distributed as far as they would go. 



'' The ' Pastime ' of San Francisco republished some of my 

 earlier articles from the ' Sentinel,' and its successor, 'Western 

 Field,' brought out an article of mine on the subject in its first 

 number. 



"The ' Pacific Fruit World' of Los Angeles, readily consented 

 to publish a strong protest I wrote against the barbarous course, 

 pointed out by one contributor, to rid the country of the bird pest 

 to hang wide-mouthed bottles filled with poisoned water up in the 

 trees where the birds would come to quench their thirst. 



"Later the ' Breeder and Sportsman,' San Francisco, published 

 two articles ' Save the Song Birds,' in the second of which I spoke 

 in the most uncomplimentary manner of women who still insist on 

 having our best friends, our greatest solace in our quiet country 

 homes, the song birds, tortured and murdered in order to wear 

 this badge of heartlessness on hat or bonnet. 



" Having been asked by the Woman's Club of San Jose to speak 

 before the Alliance of Clubs on bird protection I gladly answered 

 the call, as it is most desirable to interest the ladies of Santa Clara 

 County, for the line of that county runs through this part of the 

 Santa Cruz Mountains, and we cannot protect birds in this county 

 when they can shoot across the line from the other county into 

 ours. We of Santa Cruz had made an appeal to the Santa Clara 



