LET US GO AFIELD 



of two hundred and fifty inclusive on ducks, 

 geese and swans, which practically eliminates the 

 market hunter." 



Canada more rigidly enforces her game laws than 

 we do in the United States. She still has more 

 game than we have, being younger ; hence her laws 

 might be more liberal than ours. It is time for all 

 Canada, however, to prohibit not only all spring 

 shooting but all market shooting all the time. So 

 far from the limit of two hundred and fifty birds 

 wiping out the market hunter, the writer has at hand 

 advices from an American sportsman who shot in 

 Saskatchewan last fall and who there knew one 

 market shooter who had marketed twenty-five hun- 

 dred wild ducks that season. There are just a few 

 of us who do not identify the market hunter with 

 civilization in its highest sense. 



From a city in Alberta there comes word from 

 a sportsman who has given some study to the ques- 

 tion of game supply; and his report, on the whole, 

 seems optimistic and broad gauged : 



"The wildfowl of this continent are going and 

 going fast. I have done considerable shooting in 

 Western Canada, from Winnipeg to the mountains 

 and from the international boundary to fifty-five 



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