The Farmer's Feathered Helpers 



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HELP VILD LIFE 



TO DO ITS BIT 



BIRDS MAKE AGRICULTURE POSSIBLE 



By Killing Insect and Rodent Pests, They Save 

 Crops Worth Millions of Dollars 



FISH AND GAKTURNISH FOOD 



THOUSANDS OF TONS ARE TAKEN ANNUALLY 



Conservation Laws are designed to make Fish, Game 



and Birds more abundant and are vitally necessary 



for National Welfare 



THE MAN WHO ILLEGALLY TAKES GAME OR FISH OR 



KILLS BIRDS DECREASES FOOD RESOURCES AND 



DEFRAUDS HIS COUNTRY 



REPORT VIOLATIONS TO THE NEAREST GAME PROTECTOR 

 CONSERVATION COMMISSION. ALBANY 



FIG. 1 80. Copies of this poster were displayed throughout New York by 

 order of the State Conservation Commission. 



causes. A single young robin ate one hundred and The keen 

 sixty-five cutworms in a day nearly twice its own JJj^;.^ 

 weight of them. Another ate from fifty to seventy- 

 five worms daily for fifteen days. The enormous appe- 

 tite of birds is accounted for by the fact that they 



