Tie up all roaming dogs from May 1 to September 1 

 each year, and save the ground-nesting birds from their 

 rapacious jaws. One free-hunting hound does more 

 harm than 20 sportsmen. 



Kill all hunting or traveling cats. 



Kill weasels, coyotes, great horned owls, barred and 

 screech owls. Cooper, sharp-shinned and duck hawks; 

 and crows and night herons whenever they start in to 

 feed on ducklings. 



Confiscate the gun of every gunner convicted of kill- 

 ing game illegally, or of trepassing when hunting. 



States like New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, 

 permit no alien to own or to use a gun. ("The Penn- 

 sylvania alien gun law is constitutional," says the U. S. 

 Supreme Court.) 



All gentlemen sportsmen will respect the rights of 

 owners who post their lands against hunting; and all 

 game-hog 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 auto- 

 niatically opens that farm to free shooting! This is in- 

 tolerable and can not endure. 



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 decisive tones ! 



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 they 

 have 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 sur- 

 rounded by enemies of many kinds, their food supply 

 day by day and hour by hour is diminishing, and their 

 natural protecting cover is being taken away from them. 

 Nothing but quick work and strong and intelligent work 

 is going to save any grouse and quail shooting anywhere 

 in the United States for the future generations of sports- 

 men. 



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