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identifier/filename
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371-00108b
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title
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Letter, Lawrence Bruner to B.B. Brook, 1904, Jan. 21
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description
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Typewritten letter, 1 page, from Lawrence Bruner to B.B. Brooks, 3 pages, "I am in receipt of your favor of the 18th instant concerning…"
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Transcription
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Lincoln, Nebr. Jan. 21. Referring to the article appearing in the Rawlins Republican, there are several statements which I would like to refer to at least. The first is the paragraph in which the writer says "And passing such an act would result in much damage instead of being a benefit for the following reasons, to wit.- 1. Because they do not eat grasshoppers or insects. 2. Because they are now on the increase instead of decreasing. 3. Because by further increasing they will do more damage in one year than the grasshoppers would in five. 4. Because by the enactment, an injustice will be done the cattle men, the sheepmen, and the ranchmen by giving the coyotes, and gray wolves food to subsist upon. 5. Because the sage chicken when young furnishes many prey for all predatory animals. 6. Because of such an enactment being detrimental and in conflict with the intentions of the bounty law. Besides 7 and 8 which do not seem to have any bearing on the matter whatever. In reply to there I only need to say. 1. Since the bird is definitely known to feed upon grasshoppers no argument has been offered. 2. If the bird is increasing, so much the better. 3, 4, 5 & 6. If the wolves and coyotes feed upon the birds they will not destroy so many of the young animals belonging to the ranchmen and farmers. 7. Same as one. 8. Immaterial My personal experience has been that these birds are exceedingly active in feeding upon destructive grasshoppers and I have watched them numbers of times as they moved about over the landscape in droves, similar to our domestic fowls, picking up these insects to the right and left.
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date
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1/21/1904
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source/RG#/MS#
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MS 0371
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isPartOf/Collection
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Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
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rights
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For copyright information, please contact the repository.
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publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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language
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English
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