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Canadian Forestry Journal, July, 1917 



great and the erection of factories all 

 over the country at a time when 

 unusually heavy demands were made 

 upon railroad facilities has caused 

 many of these factories to burn wood 

 instead of coal. As, however, the 

 Ministry of Agriculture possesses a 

 modern and progressive Forestry Bur- 

 eau, this use of timber for fuel is 

 being managed in such a way as to 

 increase rather than deplete the great 

 forests of Russia. — "American For- 

 estry." 



THE CAT A BIRDCATCHER 



In every land, in every tongue, the 

 cat has been noted as a slayer of 

 birds. Maister Salmon, who pub- 

 lished "The Compleat English Physi- 

 cian" in 1693, describes the cat as the 

 mortal enemy of the rat, mouse "and 

 every sort of bird which it seizes as 

 its prey." The French and Germans 

 particularly have deplored the de- 

 struction of birds by cats. M. Xav- 

 ier Raspail in an article on the pro- 

 tection of useful birds written in 

 1894 says that though cats are out- 

 side the law and therefore may be 

 killed with impunity their numbers 

 are renewed from the villages in- 

 cessantly to such an extent that not 

 a night passes without traces of these 

 "abominable marauders." Of 67 

 birds' nests observed from April to 

 August only 26 prospered; at least 

 15 certainly were destroyed by cats 

 and others may have been. Baron 

 Hans von Berlepsch, the first Ger- 

 rnan authority on the protection of 

 birds after forty years' experience, 

 says that where birds are to be pro- 



tected the domestic cat must not be 

 allowed at large. The above are 

 but a few citations many of which 

 might be made to show that the cat 

 always has been recognized as a men- 

 ace to bird life. Many present day 

 cat lovers, however, claim that their 

 cats kill no birds, or very few, "not 

 more than one or two a year," and 

 that the destructiveness of the cat 

 to-day has been exaggerated to the 

 last degree. 



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