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deer per year, and the deer season has 

 been reduced to thirty days. The wild- 

 fowl season has been made to eonforni 

 to the federal bird laAv, and the limit on 

 quail has been reduced to twenty birds 

 in a day. 



loH'il — The Iowa legislature enacted two 

 laws, in spite of fierce opposition by the 

 state game warden and many "sports- 

 men," according five-year close seasons 

 to quail and pinnated grouse through- 

 out the state. 



A great victorv was won in Ohio, l)nt 

 hardly any portion of it belongs to our 

 bow and spear. We did not start it, 

 and we had very little to do with it, 

 aside from promulgating widespread 

 revilement of Ohio for its gameless and 

 hopeless condition. The one thing that 



rniist'd the iiiciiibcrs (if the (Jhio legis- 

 lature to action on the pi'oposition to 

 put all quail "in the class of song 

 birds,"'" and swept certain Ohio "sports- 

 men"' off their feet as if by a cyclone, 

 was a series of seven thrilling drawings 

 by cartoonist W. A. Ireland, that M'ere 

 published at the right times in the 

 Columbus DispatcJt. These cartoons 

 are so good that it really seems as 

 though they would make mummies sit 

 up and vote for quail protection ! 



Two of the states in which we made 

 very vigorous campaigns, Wyoming and 

 Texas, were sullenly obstinate and un- 

 yielding. Wyoming made no conces- 

 sions whatever to w^ild life, and Texas. 



Game slaughter as it was carried on in one state of the Union in 1915, and still continues there to 

 the disgrace of Amerira. Men, dogs, pumi) guns, and automobiles working together can quickly bring 

 extinction to all the game of any region. Mountain sheep and antelope are already so nearly extermi- 

 nated in Texas that the state has been forced to pass a law providing for long close seasons 



