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of the center and in the southern part of the state; it is in 

 Pratt County, and two miles east of the town of Pratt, which 

 is on the Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads. 



It was necessary to get a law passed by the legislature 

 to protect fish in public streams, and especially young fish. 

 If the small and young fish are not protected there will not 

 be any old and large fish. If we do not take care of young 

 chickens and pigs we will never have any grown chickens 

 or hogs. 



Another snag we struck was the market fishermen. We 

 called them together in different places and at different 

 times and talked to and tried to reason with them. I could 

 talk to them but there was no reason on their part. They 

 wanted a law to suit themselves, otherwise no law at all. In 

 fact, they wanted no law at all. They all fought my propo- 

 sition for fish protection and regulation, so that it was neces- 

 sary for me to go to the legislature and present the matter 

 to the House of Representatives and to the Senate at fre- 

 quent intervals covering a period of over two months; so 

 that when the bill finally came up every man in the legisla- 

 ture knew more or less about fish, and there were twenty 

 men who had become so interested that they wanted to speak 

 all at once. The fish and game warden was allowed to speak 

 several times on the bill in the Senate and also in the House 

 of Representatives, in order to explain further the nature 

 of the law and its especial advantages for both fish and 

 people. A law was finally passed which we think is good 

 for both game and fish in Kansas, and we are undertaking 

 to enforce that law, and I am having a lot of fun, not to 

 mention other things. 



To begin with, the fish law provides that a man can 

 fish with a hook and line any time of the year and take 

 any and everything that he catches, provided he uses bul 

 one hook on a line. Three or more hooks make what can be 

 used as a grab hook, the use of which was formerly per- 

 mitted, and men have caught great quantities of fish by 

 that means, especially in winter time, fishing through the 



