Show CALLS BIRDS AIR POLICE Secretary Says Saya Hunters Hunter Let LetIn LetIn LetIn In Boll Doll Weevil Atlanta Ga James Henry Henry- Rice Jr field secretary of ot the tie National Association Association of ot Audubon Societies addressed eed a meeting ot bird of-bird bird lovers here on the value of ot to mankind d. d Mr Rice nice began by explaining how birds were made with marvelous sight muscles of ot enormous strength high body temperature re and with ability to I Im m move ve over great space of ot country in a n I short interval interval For these reasons birds were fitted to be great air police for they could concentrate in a Ii small a-small area I subdue an insect outbreak and return j I to their appointed places with hIe ble swiftness The stark and terrible world of ot insects insects in in- sects was described with vivid power as not only o outnumbering all all all' other other kingdoms in nature but actually outweighing out out- j I weighing men mammals of ot all kinds birds fishes reptiles rE all an taken to to- gether Jether i How insects multiply multiply- and spread from country to country was told In detail A monumental case in point was the the entry of ot the Mexican cotton boll weevil Into the United States The weevil a native of ot Guatemala followed the cotton fields through M MexIco Mex Mex- x Ico to the state of ot Coahuila Coahulla and entered entered en en- I Texas at Brownsville on th the Rio TIlo Grande in 1892 1812 Texas had bad slaughtered Every town had Its shooting clubs From pioneer days Texas had been brought up to shoot first at Indians and buffaloes then then small game and to keep up practice t birds w were re killed wantonly until the bird population was was reduced I far tar below the danger point There isa is la laa I Ia for carloads of a record thirty four prairie chickens having been shipped I to New York ork city in a single day I |