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ter, writes: "Game laws not well known, reasonably well 

 but very rarely enforced.' ' 



Mr. R. S. Rogers, Dillon, reports: "People do not gen- 

 erally hunt out of season. Fish are netted in open viola- 

 tion of the law." Mr. L. A. Walker, Dorchester, writes: 

 "Laws not well known, only in part respected, and not 

 enforced/ ' Mr. W. B. Ryan, Jasper, says: "Laws known, 

 but neither respected nor enforced.' ' Mr. A. R. Taylor, 

 Lexington, reports: "Laws are known and respected by 

 the old hunters but not by the factory class. Not en- 

 forced." Mr. W. L. Sanders, writes: "Only partially 

 enforced and not generally understood." Mr. H. W. Beall, 

 Sumter, says: "Laws very well known, slightly respected 

 and hardly ever enforced." Mr. A. J. Cox, Williamsburg, 

 reports: "Laws not known, respected or enforced." Mr. 

 W. H. Wylie, Chester, reports: "Laws not fully known, 

 and where known, are not respected by even white 

 people who claim to be Christians." 



Several reports show that the game laws are being 

 enforced better than ever before, especially during the 

 last three years, or since there has been a regularly sal- 

 aried officer; that the laws protecting game birds are bet- 

 ter enforced than the laws protecting non-game birds; and 

 there are not enough paid game wardens. Mr. C. F. Dill, 

 Greenville, writes: "Birds decreasing from lack of en- 

 forcement of the laws. No warden except the chief is 

 paid a salary for lack of funds." The further conclusion 

 is reached that the public is wofully ignorant of the game 

 laws and that these laws are neither observed nor enforced 

 as they should be. 



Suggestions by Observers for the Better Protection of 



Birds 



If any further doubt exists that an average or fair and 

 unprejudiced opinion places on man responsibility for the 

 greater part of the destruction of our valuable bird life, a 

 reference to the tabulated list given below of the suggest- 

 ions by observers for the better protection of birds against 

 man and their natural enemies will be convincing. 



