QUICK RESULT OF PROTECTING THE 

 PRAIRIE CHICKEN 



In regions where grouse and quail have been reduced to 

 only a few widely scattered and mostly solitary indi- 

 viduals, the slow results of long close seasons have been 

 pointed to by the enemies of close seasons as proof that 

 the principle lacks value. There are some men who will 

 not understand that when grouse and quail are shot down 

 to a certain low point, no power on earth enables them to 

 recover. On the other side, however, where protection 

 was given in time, it is a pleasure to cite the following 

 testimony furnished by Mr. L. L. Rudrud of Piapot, Sas- 

 katchewan, Canada, November 2, 1918, as follows: 



"Prairie chickens next to ducks are the most plentiful 

 birds to be found out here. They have received the pro- 

 tection of our Province for two years and now there sure 

 are plenty of chickens. They will run in the wagon trail 

 ahead of your horses and very seldom do they make use of 

 their wings. I have seen hundreds of chickens picking 

 Sunday breakfast between the rails of the C. P. R. tracks 

 alongside the elevators at Cross, Sask. (about 7 miles west 

 of here) . 



"When the season opens here these chickens will get a 

 worse going over than when Uncle Sam gets into full ac- 

 tion on Germany. When these chickens sit on the barns, 

 eat with chickens in the yard, sit on telegraph and tele- 

 phone poles, sit in the center of the railroad tracks in flocks 

 of from 20 to 50, you can see what will happen when the 

 season opens and pump guns get into action." 



