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Show 1 1 f KILLING THE BIRDS NEAR OGDEN. I fe "Register for me a protest," said a local architect, "a protest 1 against the destruction of our wild birds. The Standard has IS spoken oji this subject, but keep up the good work " . Our friend wenf on to say that, up to .a few years ago, there f were many bluebirds to be seen in the spring of the year in Ogden, but now the birds have almost disappeared from the poplar trees I V He had PW a box in a protected comer of his high porch where f; , a bluebird found temporary refuge and raised its voting, but - Avherever.boys can get at the nests or wing the beautiful birds, the end is soon reached. ; , Hundreds of egrets migrated to the valley north of Ogden in S times gone by, but today the bird is extinct in Utah. The bright $ plumage, the aigrettes of the millinery trade, appeared on the par- ' f?ls dfing the b"ding season and the birds were hunted at a 1 c- i -I?1 the kilHng f nC meant thc destruction of a small flock l ! dUck8 returuing the Gulf states in the spring of thc I I year. arc .thln and half starved. Local hunters attribute this to the t f persistent hunting of the game in thc southern territory. Years ago the ducks goitur north were fat. The government, in inquiring J L into wild bird life, and particularly that of migratory birds, has i found that millions of ducks arc killed on the winter feeding grounds. E. V. Visart, state game warden of Arkansas, reports that 90,000 birds were sent from Mississippi county in one shipment on October J 6, 1911. According to the game warden of Louisiana, there 'were 4.265,585 ducks, geese and shore birds killed in that state during the winter of 1910 and 19 1. There is a slaughter of birds going, on everywhere, and not only of the. birds of beautiful plumage,but birds of every kind. "Men and boys with guns can be seen an3r day of the week searching the "hills near Ogden for wild birds. They shoot simply for the pleasure of killing and each shot true to its mark tends to rob every ldvcr of bird life of that higher pleasure of seeing, hearing hear-ing and noting bird activity. i am mm rrTTrmniiBiM nil nrrrniiMimrii nirni nirnrn-ri ""ir"1 |