Animals, Their Relation and Use to Man

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Excerpt from Animals, Their Relation and Use to Man: A Nature Study TextbookThe amount of general knowledge regarding American wild life that countless thousands of Americans need to know as a business proposition is really great. By way of illustration, here are a few items: the birds that are useful to man and deserve protection, the birds that men and women are ruthlessly exterminating in ways that constitute a crime against nature, the mammals that are of most value and those that are of the greatest interest to mankind, the mammals that are most destructive to man's pos sessions and which need to be destroyed, the fishes that need perpetuation and propagation as a cheap food supply for the poor, the conservation of marine life generally, the reptiles that, are deadly and those that are harmless the reptiles that are useful to man, the insects that are injurious, and how to cope with them, the crustaceans and mollusks that can be cultivated and perpetuated by intelligent effort.These few items relate to the utilitarian or commercial side of life, but of themselves alone they are sufficient to demand a com plete revolution in the method of teaching zoology. But there is another consideration quite as high as the utilitarian side of zoological knowledge, and that is, the duty of every intelligent American to obtain a good general knowledge of the most inter esting animal species of his own continent, because of the immense amount of pleasure to be derived by him through that knowledge.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.