GAME LAWS AND GAME SUPPLY 



order to help save our wild birds from seeming ex- 

 termination." 



Once in a while a marked uneasiness becomes 

 apparent among certain protesters against our Fed- 

 eral wildfowl law, lest we should be doing too 

 much for Canada and Canada not enough for us, 

 in this matter of migratory fowl. That is the same 

 dog-in-the-manger attitude which for a long time 

 kept Wisconsin from passing a spring-shooting 

 law because Illinois had not done so. Such jeal- 

 ous propositions have nothing to do with practical 

 game protection; but, so far as that is concerned, 

 Canada is fully abreast of us in protecting wild- 

 fowl. A communication from an official of a pro- 

 tective association at Regina, Saskatchewan, says: 



"I agree that more ducks breed in the southern 

 part of Saskatchewan than in the northern. John- 

 ston Lake, forty miles south of our lower railroad 

 line, is one of the best breeding grounds I have seen 

 in Saskatchewan. A small island there has been 

 made a game preserve. Saskatchewan abolished 

 spring shooting three years ago, and Manitoba and 

 Alberta have since fallen into line. British Colum- 

 bia still allows spring shooting, but we hope to see 

 that province fall into line with the other states and 

 provinces. . . . We have this year put a bag limit 



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