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Among the newspapers that rendered great service were 

 the Des Moines Register, Waterloo Courier, Successful 

 Farming, Sioux City Journal and Cedar Rapids Republican. 

 A great hit was scored by E. T. Meredith, Editor of Suc- 

 cessful Farming (Des Moines), who adapted to Iowa and 

 republished in handsome form the remarkable and powerful 

 cartoons by Ireland, which appeared in February in the 

 Columbus, Ohio, Evening Dispatch, in behalf of quail pro- 

 tection, and really swept the organized sportsmen of Ohio 

 off their feet! Mr. Meredith sent those cartoons to every 

 member of the Iowa legislature, and they surely must have 

 made a profound impression. 



The fight in Iowa was precipitated by the astounding 

 course of the State Game Warden, E. C. Hinshaw, who in 

 1915 killed a bill for a quail close season when it was half 

 way through the legislature. He should then have been re- 

 moved from office. He led the fight on the Turner quail 

 bill, and was backed by the same kind of "sportsmen" as 

 those who would not give up spring shooting until the fed- 

 eral migratory bird law was forced upon them, and even 

 then refused to agree that the Iowa state bird laws should 

 be made to conform with the federal regulations. 



Both in the State Capitol, and through the State, Mr. 

 Hinshaw was strongly denounced, as recreant in one of his 

 most important duties to the game of the state. 



At last Iowa is on the map ! We salute the men, the col- 

 leges, the newspapers and the legislators who put her there. 

 We do not believe one word of the opposition talk that "Now 

 that the sportsmen can't shoot quail, they will take no in- 

 terest in feeding them, and protecting them." We believe 

 that talk like that is nonsense. In Iowa, and Ohio, too, it is 

 not the "sportsmen" (who live chiefly in cities and towns!) , 

 who feed and protect the quail. It is the farmers who do 

 that! The farmers are beginning — at last — to recognize the 

 cash value of quail as destroyers of destructive insects and 

 weeds. 



