Meadow Club was taking active steps to eradicate 

 this pest. I found many owners of the ranch areas 

 bitterly antagonistic. Having no crops at stake they 

 invited shooting and hunting by city folk who came 

 out tor the sport, and they were against Sanctuaries. 

 Great help is given by the propaganda of the 

 Green Meadow Club, and I wish I were financially 

 able to devote my whole time to your noble enter- 

 prise as no better work can be undertaken in a new 

 country where most people are not educated to 

 the necessity of protecting the birds — their best 

 friends — in the absence of sufficient legislation. 



George L. L. de St. Remy, 



High Point, Sask. 



Eighty-three Dead 'T^obins in One "Bag 



Vigorous measures should be adopted to stop 

 the depredations of that element among our popu- 

 lation who persist in the killing of song and 

 insectivorous birds. When the early bird goes out 

 to catch the worm the early brigand goes out to 

 shoot the bird. Chief offenders seem to be the 

 foreign born residents who prey particularly on 

 robins, blackbirds and waxwings. At Marlboro, 

 Ulster Co., an Italian was recently found with S : 

 robins and 2 cedar waxwings in his bag as a result 

 of one morning's work. It is no uncommon sight 

 in the suburbs of our cities or out in the rural 

 districts to see foreign residents in the woods and 

 fields gunning for birds. — Harry D. Hoffman in 

 N. Y. Sun, May 4, 1919. 



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