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Identifier: birdlore19nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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inois State NormalSchool. The students contributed five or ten cents apiece to defray the neces-sary expenses, and by similar annual payments the necessary moneys are to beraised. By vote of the faculty the school placed itself on record as beingbehind the movement, and the president signed the papers, which are herereproduced. Signs were then prepared and transported to the grove and placed in con- (135) 136 Bird-Lore spicuous )X)sitions, giving notice of the fact that the grove is a bird reserva-tion and warning against shooting. Arrangements were made with the tenant on the farm to act as warden,and here again hearty cooperation was secured. Many a hard-headed manwill take hold of such a problem if he sees that it is really a serious undertak-ing. The farmers in the locality are intelligent people and are interested in thereservation. In so far as is known no elTorts have been made to molest the birds sincethe protection was undertaken. On the other hand, the owners of the farm, as
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AN oliJECT LESSON IN BIRD PROTECTION aho Mr. Jones and his family, are planning certain improvements which shalladd to the conveniences of those who may desire to visit the grove, as well asto the safety of the birds themselves. Altogether a most happy conditionexists, and the writer is certain that there are hundreds of opportunities forthe establishment of reservations in a similar manner if only schools shallundertake their part. The contracts are herewith reproduced in the hopes that they may suggestlike ones for manv educational institutions. A School-Sustained Bird Reservation 137 CONTRACT WITH WARDEN The students and faculty of the Northern Illinois State Normal School, desiring tomaintain on the farm of Sedgwick and Bebb, in Ogle County, 111., a bird reservation,do hereby contract with Ernst Moth to serve them in the capacity of warden oversaid reservation. Said Ernst Moth agrees to perform, to the best of his abilities, the following dutiesin his capacity as warden: I. To ere

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