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identifier/filename
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371-00158b
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title
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Letter, Gustave Lenz to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, Jan. 16
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description
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Handwritten letter, 2 pages, attached to Jan. 23, 1905, from Gustav Lenz to Lawrence Bruner, "Yours of the desired information…"
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Transcription
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stings, Nebr. 1/16/05. JAN 23 Ans'd Lawrence Bruner Prof. Lincoln, Nebr. r Sir: Yours of the desired information of 1/14/05 at hand. Thank you very much, also for a copy of "A plea for the protection of our Birds". Now I will say to you that this very problem has troubled me very much, and I'm thankful for what our State legislture has done 2 years ago in this regard. And I lay in a Plea in the strongest term possible for the same, or a more stringent law by our present Legislature for the protection of our Birds especially the Quails, the Maddow Larck and Plovers, as these Birds I know myself live from insects intirely during Summer with no harm no one, and should be intirely prohibited from being killed. But instead the hunters (lots of them too) from town come out and in spite of all we can do they shoot them down. The native Grasshoppers are getting more numerous every year in the Alfalve fields as they hatch there right long, also the Cut worms at first cutting are there by the thousends & thousands under the shocks we have them so thick they litteray cover the ground, and therefore it draws Continued
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date
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1/16/1905
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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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language
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English
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