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Excerpt from Save Our Birds and Game: Recommendations as to the Trapping and Care of Quail, Use of Poison for the Extermination of Vermin and Crows
Dear Sir: By act of Assembly, it is made the duty of the Board of Game Commissioners to protect the game and wild birds of this State, I take it this duty extends beyond matters specifically mentioned in the statute. That the purpose of the law is to save the game and wild birds from extinction, and that it is as much my bounded duty to protect the game and wild birds from destruction through the agency of four footed animals, predatory birds, or the elements, as it is to say these same things shall not he taken by man, except under the letter of the law. I cannot believe that the Game law is intended for a purpose other than benefit to all the people of this State, or that it is my duty to arrest a poor man who may kill game out of season, when he needs the same for food, and then stand with folded arms and see game of like kind destroyed by storms, vermin, or wild animals, big or little.
With the idea, then, that it is my duty to give all the protection in my power to the game and wild birds of the State, I desire to make some suggestions.
I will not attempt in this paper, except in a limited way, to touch upon the value of the life work of the birds. I do want it understood, that as the illustration I may use shows the value of the bird named, so each family of our birds has its specialty, each doing a particular work that no other family attempts to do, except to a limited extent.
Professor Surface, Economic Zoologist of this State, tells me that annual loss to Agriculture, in the United States, aggregates scores of millions of dollars from the ravages of plant lice alone.
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