THE BATTLE AND THE VICTORY 

 IN IOWA 



THE fiercest state fight of 1917 was for saving grouse and 

 quail, in Iowa, and it closed on the night of April 5. 

 After a four-hours' struggle in the Senate over the Turner 

 bill to give quail a five-year close season, and stop their ex- 

 termination, the defenders of the birds won a very decided 

 victory, and clinched it. At the same time the McFarlane 

 prairie chicken bill was passed. The quail bill won out by 

 a vote of 35 to 14, and the prairie chicken bill by 42 to 1. 

 In the House of Representatives the votes were, for quail 

 61 to 32, and for prairie chicken, 69 to 33. 



The active fighting for the quail and grouse was started 

 by the Waterloo Evening Courier and its editor; and it 

 quickly enlisted college professors, editors, farmers and leg- 

 islators, to a very promising extent. Heretofore Iowa has 

 not stood well in game protection, but that bad record has 

 been wiped out, and Iowa is now "on the map." The fol- 

 lowing are the leaders in the recent fight, and the men who 

 worked hardest to place her there : 



LEADERS OUTSIDE THE LEGISLATURE. 



Dr. T. C. Stephens, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. 



John C. Hartman, Editor Waterloo Evening Courier. 



Prof. G. B. MacDonald, Iowa State College, Ames. 



Dr. B. H. Bailey, Coe College, Cedar Rapids. 



W. F. Parrott, Waterloo. 



Profs. C. C. Nutting, and Homer R. Dill, Iowa State 



University. 

 Prof. L. S. Ross, Drake University. 



