Aside from the satisfaction of having game birds 

 in a country, few people realize their great value to 

 agriculture. These birds are busy all the time, search- 

 ing for insects and weed seeds. 



The Department of Agriculture in Washington 

 has conducted many investigations bearing on the life 

 of game birds, and has found in the crop of as small 

 a bird as the quail, many thousand seeds of various 

 kinds of weeds, and in others, hundreds of insects 

 which destroy plant life. 



Surely too much cannot be said in favor of the 

 closest protection of game birds, for they will always 

 be not only beautiful to look at and interesting to 

 study, but these birds are truly the farmers' friends- 



A JUNE DAY AT GREENWOOD 

 LAKE, N. J. 



By Louis S. Kohler 



On arriving at Sterling Forest, New York, on the 

 morning of June 20th, 1914, the first bird to greet me, 

 as alighting from the train, was a beautiful male 

 Chestnut-sided Warbler and his cheery "whee-choo" 

 served as an appropriate avian "Good-morning." Not 

 alone was he, for a few moments' observation in the 

 adjacent shrubbery brought to light his less brilliant 

 mate and in her company were four youngsters about 

 twenty days old, which she was endeavoring to pro- 

 vide with food and also having the time of her life to 

 guard against a rather thick and healthy blacksnake, 

 which quickly sidled off on seeing me in the adjoining 



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