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have food supply, or they would have to live entirely 

 on our fruits and grains ; and we have killed or 

 driven away our best friends the birds shame! 

 shame on us ! 



Hon. Chas. M. toring, president of the Minnesota 

 State Forestry Association, has just written me that 

 there are scarcely any robins in Minneapolis this 

 season. He says that in the South there are bands 

 of idle fellows who spend their time in the winter 

 months shooting robins and other useful birds, and 

 putting them on the market as "reed birds." The 

 government should stop this at once. 



