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persons must buy, one would imagine they would at least 

 only buy full-grown heads ; but as a matter of fact this 

 is not the case, for in some parts of both the States and of 

 Canada even a two-year-old bull is worth 20. " Any- 

 thing with a head-skin to it, J> as Ed remarked in whole- 

 some disgust. 



It would appear to be an extreme step if the exposure 

 for sale of sporting trophies should be forbidden by law, 

 save to museums. Yet the result would be admirable in 

 every way, and would almost certainly do more for the 

 preservation of big game than the appointment and up-keep 

 of any number of new forest wardens. Nor do I suppose 

 that there is any hunter of note or skill who would not 

 support such a measure by all means in his power. 



Take, for instance, the case of the moose for it is the 

 moose which suffers most at the hands of the trophy buyers 

 surely he deserves better treatment in this respect than 

 he receives. As far as extinction is concerned he has nothing 

 to fear from the bond fide hunter, but he has all to fear 

 from the wandering and masterless men who invade the 

 woods. Such would turn everything that lives into dollars. 

 You will even hear such a man say " I lost $50 to-day through 

 them bad cartridges/' which means that he wounded, but 

 did not get, a four-year-old moose. 



If a law were brought in and passed forbidding under 

 heavy penalties the sale or exposure for sale of all horns of 

 moose or caribou, the promoters of such legislation would be 

 called blessed, not only by all true sportsmen of to-day, but 

 very much more by the coming generation. Such a law would, 

 as a matter of fact, be a far more effective measure than the 

 extension of the close time to mid-October, which obtains 

 in some states and provinces in order to prevent calling. 

 But calling will not do much harm to the moose for two 

 sound reasons one of which is the lack of good callers, and 

 the other is that after the first week the master bull of a 



