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year on the Missouri River. There was an enormous flight 

 of sprigs, mallards, spoon bills, greenwings, bluewings, 

 blue gills (large and small), red heads, gadwalls and a 

 fair flight of canvasbacks." 



Iowa.— Mr. G. E. Poyneer, in the "American Field," 

 May 16, 1914, said, "The great good coming from the mi- 

 gratory bird law is showing itself at every hand through- 

 out this State. Almost every little pond has pairs of ducks 

 in them, and unquestionably they will nest and raise their 

 broods here." 



Iowa. — Jim Jones in Sportsmen's Review, May 16, 1914, 

 said, "The Federal bird law is what we want. Never in 

 years have so many wild fowl come up the Mississippi as 

 this year, and there are many thousands of the birds here 

 with us today. * * * The river in front of our city swarmed 

 with ducks for a whole month." 



Iowa. — Mr. Charles P. Chase, Clinton, Iowa, October 9, 

 1915, reported to Mr. Harry Barmeier, District Inspector, 

 Migratory Bird Law, "At least one thousand young ducks 

 hatched during the last season in the vicinity of Menidocia 

 River bottoms. About two hundred of these were wood 

 ducks and the balance teal and mallard." 



Maryland. — Washington Times (from Baltimore cor- 

 respondent), March 23, 1915, "Fifty thousand canvas- 

 back ducks, five thousand or more whistling swan, many 

 thousands of Canadian geese and big ricks of black ducks, 

 blackheads, and some few redheads in Chesapeake flats. 

 * * * Such a quantity of wild wings had not been seen on 

 the flats this late in the spring for many years. It was 

 conclusive evidence as to the excellence of the new Federal 

 migratory law that prohibits spring shooting of ducks on 

 the flats." Baltimore News, March 22, 1915, "That the 

 framers of the Weeks-McLean migratory law have reason 

 to feel that their dictum of no spring ducks on the Chesa- 

 peake flats has been vindicated was shown by the semi- 

 official inspection trip made by a party of sportsmen last 

 Saturday afternoon. Old gunners who can remember when 

 the 'flats' were the most famous on the Atlantic seaboard 

 declare that after several seasons of the 'no-spring shoot- 

 ing' law there will be ducks enough for all and plenty left 

 for seed. * * * Sixty thousand birds in the air. Such a 

 sight in the spring of the year had not been seen on the 

 'flats' in many a year." 



