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there as long as possible. Those who have tried this say 
that the cat never afterwards kills a bird. I have described 
some cat-proof fences and other devices for protecting birds 
against cats, in “ Useful Birds and their Protection/ 7 pub- 
lished by the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture in 
1906. This volume may be obtained of Secretary J. Lewis 
Ellsworth, 136 State House, Boston. 
The suggestion regarding the planting of trees and other 
plants that will provide both food and shelter for the birds 
is a good one, which is also treated at some length in the 
volume above referred to. 
The Establishment of State Parks for the Preservation of 
Forests and Game. — This is a policy that is already attract- 
ing the attention of the national government and many of 
the State governments. A protected natural reservation pro- 
vides a sanctuary in which birds find security from their 
greatest enemy, man. Here they find breeding grounds 
where they will be comparatively unmolested, when, else- 
where, destruction awaits them at every hand. Hew York 
State, with her great Adirondack Reservation, has recently 
established another in the Catskills. Massachusetts already 
has several reservations of small area. These might be in- 
creased in number, and larger tracts of wild land taken. Men 
of wealth should follow the example of Mr. Corbin, in Hew 
Hampshire, and buy up tracts of hill land for the preserva- 
tion of the forests and the game. In such preserves no 
shooting of game or birds should be allowed. If birds 
were protected also against their natural enemies in many 
preserves of this kind, the supply would be constantly 
renewed. One or more reservations might be established 
on our coast for the benefit of water fowl and shore birds. 
Parts of Hantucket, Chatham, Monomoy, Wellfleet or other 
places on Cape Cod, the Ipswich marshes, or some similar 
resorts of water fowl and wading birds, might be secured 
in time to perpetuate the natural features of these bird 
resorts, and afford the fowl safe feeding ground, upon 
which they could remain undisturbed indefinitely. We 
have thus far secured only a few of the beaches near Bos- 
