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After about two hours watching, 

 she finally disappeared in a bunch of 

 grass so I started out to investigate. 

 Upon nearing the place, slie fluttered 

 out and to my delight disclosed lier 

 neat little nest. 



The nest was made of fine grasses 

 and rootlets, placed in a depression 

 under a large plant. It was only about 

 three feet from a small spring, on a 

 little hill. The eggs were four in 

 number, but there was also a Cow- 

 bird's egg in the nest. 



URI B. WORCESTER. 



To The Farmers. 



The Audubon Society truthfully 

 says in a recently issued leaflet "If 

 the bird laws are to be improved, it 

 can only be done through the power- 

 ful influence of the grangers, who are 

 more deeply interested than any class 

 of citizens. Every bird that is waste- 

 fully destroyed, means a loss of mon- 

 ey to the argriculturist of New York. 



The millinery trade does not wish 

 the bird laws changed., It fights every 

 attempt to improve them. Have you 

 ever contrasted the relative size of 

 the two interests — millinery and agri- 

 culture ? If not, carefully examine 

 the following figures taken from the 

 last United States Census report. 



Capital invested in the wholesale 

 and retail millinery business in the 

 State of New York $11,805,903 



Capital invested in argriculture in 

 New York State: 



Land 551,174,220.00 



Farm buildings 337,000,000.00 



Total, 888,174,220.00 



There are 226,720 farms in the state 

 almost a quarter of a million farmers 

 and their families depend on the pro- 

 ducts of these farms. There are 22,- 

 648,109 acres in these farms. Every 

 acre harbors swarms of insects and 



rodent pests that destroy crops, en- 

 tailing an enormous loss annually. 



Birds are the means supplied by the 

 Creator that keep in check insect and 

 rodent pests. Farmers, are you wil- 

 ling to have your best friends destroy- 

 ed ? In l&OO you spent $27,102,130 for 

 labor; the birds work for you without 

 pay. Can you do less for them than 

 to see that they have the fullest legal 

 protection ?" 



All of which we fully endorse and 

 are decidedly sorry to see the back- 

 ward step taken by the present Fed- 

 eral administration through Collector 

 Leob of the port of New York in ord- 

 ering the vast number of aigrettes re- 

 cently seized in a New York Custom 

 House to be sold and thereby get into 

 the channels of commerce instead of 

 being destroyed as they should have 

 been. 



Our friend Prof. H. E. .tail of the 

 Mansfield, Ohio High school i- 

 ciated with Prof. S. S. '■ -■t 

 Ohio State University in ihe publica- 

 tion of a new work entitled, "The 

 Mammals of Ohio." Without doubt it 

 will be up to standard, coming from 

 the hands of two such scientists as 

 Professors Hall and Hine. 



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 of THE OOLOGIST to give or send 

 the duplicate to some person interest- 

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