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Monday, July 31, 2017

Welcome to Winged Wardens

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Welcome to this six-year on-and-off blog project documenting pre-Audubon movement bird protection discourse in the agricultural papers of N...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Epilogue 3. From "Spare the Birds" to the Audubon movement

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In an August 1866 article, the American Agriculturist announced that the project of bird protection was complete. The indiscriminate sho...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Epilogue 2: Spare the Sparrow?

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Way back at the beginning of this project, I suggested that  " Bradley says a pair of house sparrows destroys 3360 caterpillars a wee...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Epilogue 1: American Entomology and "The Bird Question" (Prairie Farmer 1860s)

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W. Conner Sorenson, in his 1995 book, Brethren of the Net: American Entomology 1840-1880 , highlights the role of agricultural periodicals ...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Longfellow's "Plea for the Birds" (1863)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's highly anticipated Tales of a Wayside Inn  was published on November 25, 1863. Among the poems in the coll...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

"Every farmer should be an ornithologist" Country Gentleman (1859-1860)

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For the April 14, 1859 issue of the  Country Gentleman , assistant editor Samuel Lane Boardman, of Brookdale Farm (near South Norridgewock)...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Bird Music and Agrarianism

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In a July 1858 letter to the New England Farmer, "T.A.S. of Westboro'", one of the robin defenders who so incensed N. Page Jr...