HOW BIRDS HELP THE FARMER 479 



People who do not understand the value of birds in thus 

 protecting crops, often kill them for food or for their plumage. 

 Are such people good citizens ? 



A short time ago, 30,000 robins (Fig. 346) were brought into 

 the market of one of our large cities in a single day by hunters 

 who had shot the birds for food. 



If there is an Audubon society in your state, join it and do 

 your part as a good citizen in checking the slaughter of birds. 

 One writer goes so far as to say " that the greatest danger with 

 which agriculture is, or ever has been, threatened lies in the 

 wholesale destruction of birds now being carried on." 



