GAME LAWS AND GAME SUPPLY 



the broadminded sportsman will not get his legal 

 bag of ten birds in a day's shooting. I have counted 

 as high as seven hundred grouse flushed out of a 

 single grain field this fall, and we see them every- 

 where while motoring along the country roads. 



"Your timely article on wildfowl has brought me 

 to write this letter. I hope that judicious treat- 

 ment of the subject by the authorities on both sides 

 of the line will make it possible for an honest, de- 

 cent shooter to get a reasonable bag for his day's 

 hunt for generations to come." 



Too many times sportsmen have reasoned from a 

 particular premise to a general conclusion. The 

 fact that ducks have to be herded off the fields in 

 one locality in Alberta does not mean that American 

 gunners ought to shoot in the spring in any of our 

 Western states. The fact that some localities are 

 specially favored with game does not mean that 

 men of those localities should kill it without restric- 

 tion; nor does it mean that men of less favored 

 localities should use to the limit their own lessening 

 opportunities. That a few men shoot ducks on 

 the Gulf Coast in December and January does not 

 by any means signify that all men should shoot 

 ducks in March and April in the entire Mississippi 

 Valley. 



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