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Show Boys and Girls of 4-H Clubs Protect Animals and Birds of Rural Districts Few persons realize the important contributions the members of the 4-H 4-H clubs ere making to the cause of conservation, writes Albert Stoll, Jr., in the Detroit News. These clubs, operating throughout the nation na-tion and comp'Xed principally of rural boys nd girls with the motto. Head, Heart Hand and Health, have been in a particularly fortunate position to become intimately acquainted ac-quainted with their native plant and animal life and realize just what these resources mean to their communities. com-munities. In many instances the groups are responsible for reforestation projects proj-ects and the conservation of farm woodlots. They have encoth-aged, through protection and refuges, the maintenance of a crop of fur-bearing animals in their communities. Through winter feeding operations they helped carry quail, pheasants and winter song birds through severe se-vere periods. In Michigan alone the clubs have been given thousands of pheasant eggs for incubation and after rearing them made liberations when the birds were able to shift for themselves. They have taken an active interest in the preservation of rare wilddowers. They have discouraged dis-couraged the indiscriminate killing of beneficial hawks and owls, a practice which their forefathers considered good preservation. In the more remote districts they have rendered valuable services in the prevention and control of forest and brush fires. In short they have given a splendid splen-did demonstration of what youth can accomplish if it becomes interested inter-ested in a subject and applies head, heart and hands to the task. |