Sixth. We have seen that bag limits are not saving the 

 Upland game birds, partly because there are ten times 

 too many bags! 



Seventh. For land game we see all kinds of natural 

 cover and food diminishing through drainage, cultivation, 

 timber-cutting and fires. We see the natural enemies 

 of the game holding it at great disadvantages; and the 

 hard winters steadily are becoming harder and more 

 destructive to feathered game. 



Finally. We see that the resident hunting licenses 

 fees in the various states, one and all, without a single 

 exception, are ridiculously and absurdly below the real 

 value of the sweeping wholesale privileges that they 

 confer. 



In 1911 we ascertained that 1,486,288 hunting licenses 

 were issued by 27 states, out of our total of 48 states. 

 Computing by averages the allotment of gunners for the 

 21 states then not issuing licenses, the total arrived at 

 of sure-and-certain hunters in 1911 was 2,642,194. The 

 number of other men hunting without licenses and con- 

 trary to law was believed to be sufficient to bring the 

 total up to at least 3,000,000. Some competent authori- 

 ties long ago estimated the total as high as 5,000,000. 



Since 1911 there have been some very great increases 

 in the number of licensed hunters. 



Here is one index of that increase : 

 In 1911 New York issued 150.220 hunting licenses. 

 In 1915 New York issued 188,216 huntng licenses. 

 In 1918 New York issued 230,000 hunting licenses. 



This means an increase of 80,000 since 1911, not count- 

 ing the farmers and tenants who now may legally hunt 

 game on their own farms without licenses. 



In 1919 Pennsylvania issued 400,000 licenses. Now, 

 it is estimated that 200,000 Pennsylvania farmers hunt 

 on their own lands without licenses, but accordig to law, 

 making a total of 600,000 active hunters in that one state. 



What Can We Do? 



Plant millons of berry, nut and seed bearing bushes, 

 trees and plants as special food for wild birds. This will 

 go far towards protecting cherries, grapes and other 

 fruits from attack by robins and other birds that we can 

 not kill. Good species to plant are wild cherry, mulber- 

 ry, juniper, mountain ash, hawthorne and juneberry. 



Feed upland game birds and other birds in winter 

 about 10,000 times more than ever yet has been done, 

 and provide shelters for quail. 



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