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trend in 1930, coincide with the trend of gallinaceous birds during the same 

 period. 



Seasons. Chart 14 depicts much human, as well as biological history. It 

 shows the unregenerate states which would not curtail their seasons until the fed- 

 eral law did it for them in 1913. This is mentioned merely to re-emphasize the 

 principle that mobile game must be protected by the whole community over which 

 it ranges, and not left to the local units of that community. Some of these local 

 units are always going to wait for all their neighbors to reform before they do. 



The fact that the very states which refused to curtail their duck seasons in 

 1913 had long since curtailed their non-mobile resident game is shown on the 

 other charts. 



Missouri still retains her long state season on ducks, 18 years after it was 

 superseded by the federal law. 



When the new federal bag limit of 15 ducks was established in 1930, there 

 was only one state in this group (Ohio) which had not already made the reduc- 

 tion on its own account. 



