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appeared to be behind the movement. Under the 

 new law the milliners were enabled to reopen in Penn- 

 sylvania the sale of aigrettes, because those feathers 

 came from members of the unprotected Heron Family ! 

 It required a tremendous State campaign to restore 

 protection to the herons and bar out the aigrettes; 

 but it was accomplished in 1912. Hereafter, let no 

 man for one moment be deceived by the claim that 

 the very few-and-far-between herons, bitterns, and 

 kingfishers that now remain in the United States, 

 anywhere, are such a menace to fish life that those 

 birds are a pest and deserve to be shot. The inland 

 streams of the United States and Canada lack fishes 

 because they have been outrageously overfished, 

 wastefully, wickedly depleted, without sense or reason, 

 by men who scorn the idea of conservation. In 

 Orleans County, New York, a case was reported to 

 me of a farmer who dynamited the waters of his own 

 creek, in spawning time!" 



The Angler angles according to his own humanely 

 conservative law. The greedy fisherman fishes accord- 

 ing to court or so-called legal law, good or bad, and he 

 always breaks the Angler's law and very often the 

 court's law. 



In viewing Dr. Hornaday's Spokane photograph 

 note the bait-casting reel on the fly-casting rod the 

 rig of a clumsy as well as greedy fisherman. The mess 

 of trout shown is one that no Angler would ever make 

 and one that any gentleman would be ashamed of 

 "three times too many fish for one rod," as Dr. 

 Hornaday says, " another line of extermination 

 according to law." Of course, the Doctor means the 

 fisherman's law or the court's law, not the Angler's 

 law. 



