. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. OTTAWA, CANADA, MARCH, 1919 JACK MINER AND HIS WILD FOWL The Story of a Remarkable Experiment in At- tracting the Birds of the Air. (From Mr. Miner's Address given at the Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation) No. 3. I assure you it is a privilege for me to meet with so many bird lovers. We love out-of-door creatures, or we would not be here this morning. Now, you will have to pardon my lack of ed- ucation. I am one of those men who are born bare-footed and educated out-of-doors. How- ever, I was my father's fa
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. OTTAWA, CANADA, MARCH, 1919 JACK MINER AND HIS WILD FOWL The Story of a Remarkable Experiment in At- tracting the Birds of the Air. (From Mr. Miner's Address given at the Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation) No. 3. I assure you it is a privilege for me to meet with so many bird lovers. We love out-of-door creatures, or we would not be here this morning. Now, you will have to pardon my lack of ed- ucation. I am one of those men who are born bare-footed and educated out-of-doors. How- ever, I was my father's favorite. Perhaps it is not just the proper thing for fathers to show partiality, but mine did. He always called me in the morning to build the fires; possibly in that way I got out a little earlier than the rest to hear the birds singing. Outside of unavoidable sadness, my Hfe has been one continuous round of enjoyment; the failures and disappointments and the dark storm clouds have been wiped out of existence by success, by out-of-door life—a light which has brightened my path right up to the present and given me a faint glimpse of the beyond. I have heard people say that they have read that there was never a tribe of heathen discovered on earth who did not worship some kind of god. No intelligent man can live out-of-doors without being compelled to believe that there is an over- ruling power. The Domain of Man. God created the fowls of the air, and so on, before He created man, according to Genesis 1st chapter and 21st verse. Th?n in the 26th verse we find these words: "And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, and after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth'." Does that mean that we are to have dominion over these big flocks of wild geese, so far away that you have to look twice to see them? You know how
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