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trespassers should be compelled to do so, by stringent laws 

 and heavy fines. Farmers will not feed and protect birds 

 when the sure result is an annual horde of insolent and 

 defiant trespassers. In some states the acceptance of 

 pheasants from a state game farm automatically opens that 

 farm to free shooting! This is intolerable and can not en- 

 dure. 



WISE LAWS DO PRESERVE GAME AND SPORT. 



If American sportsmen wish that sport in the open with 

 the gun and rod shall sanely and sensibly be saved from 

 EXTINCTION, and established on a continuing basis, all 

 they need to do to secure it is to ask for it, in clear and de- 

 cisive tones! 



If the fur-wearers, fur traders and trappers wish to have 

 the North American fur-bearing animals saved from quick 

 extinction, they need to say so at once, and ask for the 

 laws necessary to conserve them, with no fooling or quib- 

 bling about the necessary details. The fur trade now is 

 "up against" the certain and quick failure of the fur supply 

 for the future, and it is for the three parties in interest 

 to put up the bars of sane conservation, or put up their 

 business shutters forever. 



It has been proven over and over that it is possible for 

 wise and timely laws, adequately enforced, to maintain 

 game and sport. More than that, in rare cases it has even 

 brought back both from the edge of Oblivion. The white- 

 tailed deer and elk are the most responsive of all our big 

 game in coming back and re-creating deer-hunting. The 

 wild ducks and geese can and do come back, when the seed 

 stock is adequate, and the breeding and feeding grounds 

 are not destroyed. 



But the upland game birds are different. They are mostly 

 non-migratory, winter and summer they are surrounded 

 by enemies of many kinds, their food supply day by day 



