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show you how disastrous forest fires have become in late 

 years, the President in 1918 had to authorize a loan of one 

 million dollars to the Forest Service for fire-fighting ex- 

 penses, to meet the serious emergency conditions in the 

 National Forests of the Northwest and the Pacific Coast 

 States. The loan was made from the special defense fund 

 of fifty million dollars placed at the disposal of the Presi- 

 dent by Congress. While only a small percentage of blame 

 can be placed at the door of the outer, it behooves each 

 sportsman to carefully extinguish camp-fires. If we would 

 guard the wild life that remains, we should use every means 

 to prevent forest fires at our disposal. 



The hunter has indeed arrived! Each returned soldier 

 is intensely imbued with the spirit of sportsmanship caused 

 by living and camping out as did our primitive fore- 

 bears, and the brotherhood of man is now more fully 

 apparent than ever before. 



Fox-hunters of the old school believe that a fat fox 

 caught in the fall denotes a hard Avinter. 



If all hunters would wear red coats when hunting, this 

 would doubtless reduce the number of fatalities greatly 

 from accidental shooting. 



The United States Department of Agriculture suggests 

 the folloAving ways of more largely utilizing the deer kill: 



"Do not kill a spike buck or doe when you can obtain 

 a f ull-groAvn buck. 



"Do not kill a deer when weather conditions or diffi- 

 culties of transportation prevent saving the meat. 



"Save every pound of meat. 



"Save the skin and the head also if the antlers are in 

 good condition. 



"Do not shoot deer at night, or in the water, or un- 

 less you can clearly see the animal aimed at is a full-grown 

 buck. Failure to observe this rule usually results in a vio- 

 lation of the game laws, and often in the loss of human lite." 



