Show birds a help to the fa farmer the demand for the protection of wild birds was once onca based solely on humane and esthetic grounds now the demand Is coming to bo be based in addition on economic grounds which will commend it to a larger number of men and insero it a more careful hearing bearing in the court of public opinion bird slaughter not long ago was waa decried because tho the native songsters song were being killed at tho the behest of millinery fashion now another noto note to Is sounded the increase of insect pests and bonso conso consequent reduction of the harvests has corresponded with the decrease of the birds in addition to filling their craws with insects numerous wild birds feed on weed seeds and weeds are a handicap in agriculture in several states increasing safeguards are ara being thrown around birds because of their worth as alda aids to agriculture |