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modeled on right lines. There are town gun clubs, 

 which are members of the County Game Protective As- 

 sociation, and these County Game Associations choose 

 delegates who are members of the executive council 

 of the central State Game Protective body. The town 

 gun clubs are active and especially interested in their 

 own especial territory. The occasional meetings held 

 where all the towns of the country are represented, 

 keep up this interest, and when the county delegates 

 attend the meetings of the State Association they are 

 able to report intelligently on what is taking place and 

 on what should be done. If every State in the Union 

 had such an organization, and if every State from time 

 to time chose delegates to a central association which 

 represented the English-speaking race on the conti- 

 nent, matters would go forward much more rapidly, 

 and much more would be accomplished than at present. 

 Another thing that works against the sportsmen is 

 that they have no method of communication with each 

 other. The means are at their hand in the various 

 sportsmen's journals, but only a small proportion of the 

 great number of gunners in theland read these journals. 

 If they were read by most sportsmen, who thus kept 

 themselves informed as to what legislation is on foot 

 and what other sportsmen are doing, intelligent action 

 could be taken by a large body of men on the measures 

 which should be taken to increase our stock of game. 

 Sportsmen would then be acting together as one body, 

 and many of the problems which now trouble us would 

 have been solved. 



