est fires meant to them in the way of lost revenue. The 

 Canadian Pacific does not believe in burning up one of the great 

 sources of its revenues and for that reason is paying partic- 

 ular attention to the cause of forest preservation. It is an 

 example to be followed by the American lines. 



THE GOVERNMENT RULES FOR PROTECTION OF 

 MIGRATORY BIRDS. 



In our last issue we published a digest of the new govern- 

 ment rules for the protection of migratory birds. Sportsmen, 

 who have studied these new regulations, have expressed 

 themselves as highly pleased with the work of the Biological 

 Survey. 



"The Biological Survey has drawn these regulations after 

 a most careful study of all the various species of game birds, 

 their migratory habits, time of flight and breeding, and times 

 of appearance in various states," says Field and Stream, in 

 commenting upon the new rules. "These regulations undoubt- 

 edly do the greatest good to the greatest number, which is 

 in this case the entire population of the United States, and, as 

 drawn, they give the wild life a fair chance against the 25 

 million American citizens who are more or less interested 

 in taking game for sport during the hunting season." 



"Such beneficial results have invariably followed the enact- 

 ment of the non-sale of game laws that we confidently predict 

 that the federal control of the migratory bird situation will 

 be soon visible to every citizen in the land and that our birds 

 will reappear in localities where for the last seventeen years 

 they have been so scarce as to be, to all intents and purposes, 

 extinct," concludes Field and Stream. 



Minnesota has a particular interest in migratory birds, for 

 across this state, north and south, for 400 miles, twice each 

 year travel hosts of wild fowl and millions of song birds. Be- 

 cause of our situation we are visited by a great variety of 

 bird life birds of the Great Lakes region, birds of the eastern 

 hardwood region, of the pineries of the plains and of the far 

 north. The new rule means much to the birds and the people 

 of Minnesota. 



