GAME PROTECTION. 



Had the game laws that are being made now been made fifteen 

 years ago there would not be the scarcity of game that is now found 

 m most states. Some of the state laws are fine, but in the greater 

 number of them there is no adequate protection afforded to the game, 

 and the consequence is that it is killed for market and shipped from 

 state to state, and whole localities are thus cleared of game in a few 

 seasons. 



Spring shooting should be stopped, and not a gun fired until after 

 the hatching season is over and the young birds large enough to take 

 care of themselves in the field. 



Thousands of birds die each year, because parent birds are killed 

 or maimed, and the laws cannot be made too stringent in tl]is respect. 



So long as one man is at liberty to shoot and destroy a fine flock 

 of birds, others will feel that they, too, might as well have the game 

 as he, and it is hard on the man who wants game protection to see 

 his neighbor come home with a big bag, while he has kept the law and 

 stayed at home. 





A POT HUNTER. 



Market hunters will shoot any bird, young or old, and most of 

 the woodcocks put on the market are nothing but quail, doves, or even 

 blackbirds. 



Quail cannot survive a severe winter, but die of exposure and star- 

 vation. This could be avoided by providing grain for them and in- 



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