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Show The bill advocated by the Audubon societies of the state of New York, forbidding the sale within this state of the plumage of any wild bird which Is protected within New York, has passed the legislature and Is awaiting the governor's signature. We trust it will receive his approval, says Rochester Roches-ter Herald. For many years the Audubon Audu-bon societies have labored unceasingly to educate the people of this state to the economic as well as the sentimental senti-mental value of wild bird life. Their progress has been very slow. The rural jjs communities of the state, even the fruit-raising sections of western New York, have been afflicted with almost Incredible ignorance of the usefulness of birds. Farmers' boys often rob birds' nests of their eggs, and amuse themselves by aiming their newly acquired ac-quired firearms at birds of every kind. It is seldom that a word of censure is heard from the male parent, whose property the young mischief-maker la hastening to destroy. |