Excerpt from Protection of Animals I should be glad to Speak Of the shepherd dogs of Scotland, and the Newfoundland and the St. Bernard, and the rich men's dogs that protect their masters' houses, and the poor men's dogs which are their masters' friends; or I might read to you an hour about the birds, without which, because of the wonderful fecundity Of insects, Michelet declares that man could not live. I shall only have time to say in regard to them, that in the report of the Mass. State Board of Agriculture, for 1873, you will find, first, that the annual loss to crops by insects, in the United States, is estimated at about four hundred millions Of dollars; and, second, that a large proportion of this loss' might be prevented by the proper encouragement and protection of small birds, and their nests; and that for the want of this encouragement and protection American birds are decreasing, and insects increasing. But in the space allotted me I can only put before you some Of the conditions, in this country, of animals that supply us with food; the bearing of those conditions on public health and morals and the means by which those conditions may be changed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.