168 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



I believe over 1,000,000 mud hens. Ducks are nesting 

 right here in Illinois and Indiana. * * * I think that this 

 improvement in local conditions is due to the Federal law 

 for the protection of migratory birds/ ' 



Missouri. — From letter of E. C. Higgins, January 3, 

 1915, Salem, "I have interviewed a number of sportsmen 

 and business men of Charleston and every one of them to 

 a man has given information that more geese were seen 

 and killed near Charleston than ever was known in the 

 history of the place. This was in the month of November, 

 1914. In some wheat fields they lit in bunches of at least 

 a thousand." 



Nebraska. — From letter of T. Hayman, Grand Island, 

 January 16, 1915, "The duck hunting this fall was the very 

 best we have ever had, and I have talked the Federal law 

 over with a great many of our hunters in this town and 

 they are all of the same opinion, that spring shooting 

 should be discontinued and the Federal law upheld." 



Nebraska. — Lincoln, a letter dated June 9, 1916, from 

 the Chief Deputy, Game and Fish Warden of Nebraska, 

 says, "We have more waterfowl all over the State as well 

 as in the city of Lincoln at the present time than we have 

 ever had to my knowledge. The number of waterfowl in 

 this State at the present time, as compared with the number 

 during the period preceding the enactment of the Federal 

 law is from 50 to 75 per cent greater." 



Nebraska. — Mr. William Francke, Valentine, December 

 15, 1915, said, 'There was more ducks in Cherry County 

 than there has been for the last fifteen years. More teal, 

 more mallards, bred here than for years." 



Nebraska. — Mr. M. O. Worrall, Federal game warden, 

 Wahoo, Nebraska, August 23, 1915, reported, "At the ap- 

 proach of the open season there are more ducks and geese 

 than ever at this season of the year, and the sportsmen are 

 well satisfied with the Federal law." 



Nebraska. — Mr. George L. Carter, Lincoln, December 

 23, 1915, said, "The season as pertaining to wild fowl just 

 closed has been very satisfactory in Nebraska." 



Nebraska. — Mr. J. H. McPharlin, O'Neill, on December 

 20, 1915, reported, "I have been in Holt County fifteen 

 years, and there were more ducks here this year than I 

 have ever seen before. The first of September, I was out 



