The Governor of Utah. 



"The great, broad principle underlying the subject of conservation 

 is whether or not each succeeding generation can be sustained on the 

 land without impoverishing it in any respect. Stated as a question it 

 is. 'Will each generation have the land as rich as the preceding one?' 

 It seems a simple question, and yet the safety and the lives of our 

 children and our children's children will depend upon the answer. 

 The forests, the streams, the soils, the minerals, and all the other 

 natural elements of wealth should remain as nearly as possible uii- 

 diminished as the centuries pass. All of this is in the hands of the 

 people, with the possible exception of the preservation of the mineral 

 wealth." 



CUTTER. 



A Great Educator. 



There are at least two reasons why we should love and protect birds: 



1. Because of their economic value. We are so constituted that 

 many of us cannot be reached except on the materialistic side alone. 

 The argument for the preservation of birds is strong enough, how- 

 ever, to convince the most skeptical. Scientists have enumerated 

 300.000 different insects and others yet remain to be classified. Every 

 living plant, tree, and shrub has these enemies; even the hardiest of 

 our trees, the oak, the elm, and others have insect foes that frequently 

 destroy large areas of forest. The brown tail moth, for instance, has 

 destroyed every tree of certain varieties in some localities. The gov- 

 ernment experts say that the Hessian fiy is responsible for the de- 

 struction of ten per cent of the annual wheat crop of the United 

 States. The chief protection against such losses is the ever present 

 winged army of birds in field and forest. The separate divisions 

 protect the tree from root to summit. The thrush, towhee and bob 

 white search the ground for larvae and weed seed, the brown creeper, 

 woodpecker, and nuthatch are busily engaged summer and winter in 

 looking into every crevice of the bark while the crested titmouse and 

 a score of equally experienced comrades search twig and leaf for their 

 insect foods. Commonly a bird eats half its own weight in a day. 

 Above ground the phoebe and night hawk do their utmost to make 

 life more pleasant by diminishing the number of both flies and mos- 

 quitoes. If the time should ever come when these feathered soldiers 

 of the field and forest should be exterminated it is certain that the 

 loss to our crops would be immense and life would be much less 

 pleasant. 



2. After the material side surely something can be said for the 

 aesthetic. The marvelous beauty of many birds attracts occasionally 

 even the densest and most unseeing eye. Ordinarily anyone Avould be 

 startled into at least momentary admiration at sight of the brilliant 

 colors of Lord Baltimore on glimpsing the oriole, this bird of flame. 

 One who has once seen the nonpareil near our southern coast is not 

 likely to soon forget it. The same is true with many of the smaller 

 and shyer birds such as the hooded warbler and the redstart. If 

 every one sets out to hunt them with bird glasses instead of a gun 

 interest is sure to follow. Even the most hardened and unapprecia- 



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