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BY THE WAYSIDE 
would find him along the Great Lakes) 
another vear in the lowlands of Louisiana. 
Among his longest journeys was that from 
the coast of Labrador down through New 
Brunswick and Maine, and thencethrough 
all the Atlantic states to Florida. Later 
he went along the Missouri from St. 
Louis to the headwaters of that mighty 
stream. The colossal nature of such an 
undertaking can only be understood as 
it is remembered that it was before the 
days of convenient travel, such as our 
time affords. The perseverance of the 
man is beyond praise, it is beyond com¬ 
prehension .—Journal of Education. 
To Shield Bird Guards. 
As the result of recent appeals from 
farmers, orchardists, cotton growers and 
ranchmen in every section of the country 
a widespread campaign is being insti¬ 
tuted in this city for the protection of 
every American species of insect-eating 
bird. During the coming year renewed 
efforts will be put forth in every state in 
the union by the National Association of 
Audubon societies, which will head the 
movement, to obtain protective legisla¬ 
tion for the native birds as well as better 
enforcement of such existing laws as the 
Audubon workers have succeeded in 
having placed on the statute books. If 
sufficient support is forthcoming from 
the agrarian interests affected by the in¬ 
sect pests, which the birds hold in check, 
it is hoped to make this a great economic 
as well as sentimental campaign. 
Resolutions calling upon the govern¬ 
ment and state legislatures to co-operate 
in this Audubon work throughout the 
entire cotton belt were unanimously 
passed by the International Conference 
of Cotton Growers, Spinners and Manu¬ 
facturers at Atlanta, where representa¬ 
tives of the cotton industry from all over 
the world met early this month. The 
cotton men assured Prof. T. G. Pearson, 
secretarv of the National Association of 
Audubon societies, who has just returned 
from representing the association with 
another Audubon official, that they retd- 
ized that the native birds had been dem¬ 
onstrated to be the best effectual means 
of checking the bollweevil and other 
pests that menace their crop. The gov¬ 
ernment Biological Survey, the abolish¬ 
ing of which was successfully opposed by 
the Audubon workers last winter, was 
commended by the cotton conference and 
the extension of its work recommended 
as a most valuable means of determining 
the economic value of various bird spe¬ 
cies bv its scientific examination of the 
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stomachs of specimens. 
Although Audubon campaigning has 
resulted in the passing of protective leg¬ 
islation for bird life in every southern 
state, where five years ago no such stat¬ 
utes existed, it is the intention of the 
association to redouble its efforts for 
proper enforcement and amendment of 
these laws as a part of its general national 
campaign In the northwest, the coast 
■ states and throughout the middle west 
it is intended to institute similar cam¬ 
paigns in response to the appeals of 
granges and organizations of orchardists 
which have come from everv section. 
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“The extent of this movement will be 
limited only by the funds available from 
our members and friends,” said William 
Dutcher, president of the association, at 
its headquarters, 141 Broadway, to-day. 
“We have had an unusually hard cam¬ 
paign in forty state legislatures and in¬ 
creased expense in securing reserves for 
