ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 149 



stance, from a point in Indiana to Chicago or Cincinnati, 

 the local game wardens, endeavoring to protect the birds 

 of your state, find themselves powerless, because the 

 birds are not seen of men after they are once packed un- 

 til they turn up in the markets of one of the cities. The 

 state law is thus nullified. This provision enables the 

 persons enforcing the state law to show, first, that the 

 birds were killed in violation of the state law; second, 

 that they have been shipped by interstate commerce to 

 another state. Then the national law comes in and for- 

 bids the shipment, and in this manner the state law is 

 supplemented. Thus it is made effective at the very 

 point where, by reason of the limited area of the state, 

 the state law today is inoperative and ineffective. 



I love the people who love birds. The man or the 

 woman who does not love birds ought to be classed with 

 the person who has no love for music — fit only "for 

 treason, stratagem, and spoils." I would love to have a 

 solo singer in every bush and a choir of birds in every 

 tree top. At my own home I have set out Russian mul- 

 berries for the birds alone. The Russian mulberry be- 

 gins to ripen while the blossoms are still coming out, and 

 for three months there are blossoms and black fruit upon 

 the same tree. If you want to be popular with the birds 

 of your community, set out some of these mulberries, and 

 they will come from every quarter to the place where 

 these trees are. The man who cultivates the birds will 

 have the birds take care of him. They will care for his 

 farm. They will destroy the insect pests, and the man 

 who protects them will be successful wherever he may 

 farm in the United States of America. 



Me. Shackleford. What about the birds that pick the 

 cherries f 



Mr. Lacey. Every bird that eats a cherry earns ten 

 cherries before he eats one. 



