As instances of what sportsmen can do when they reso- 

 lutely make up their minds, take the case of the geese 

 and ducks of the United States. The stoppage of the 

 sale of game and spring shooting has not only saved the 

 sport of duck-shooting, but it has greatly increased it 

 over what it was even ten years ago. Today it is the 

 universal testimony that the supply of ducks and geese 

 has enormously increased — since the migratory bird law 

 was enacted. SPORTSMEN'S CLUBS AND THE PRI- 

 VATE LAND OWNERS HELP PRESERVE THE REM- 

 NANT OF OUR GAME. THE STATE MUST DO THE 

 REST. 



In Europe it has been proven over and over that pri- 

 vate owners of large hunting grounds have preserved 

 sport for centuries. The deer forests and the grouse 

 moors prove it. But that game has not been cursed by 

 millions of free shooters, each' one asserting the rights of 

 a sovereign, and sometimes quite able to defy owners 

 while trespassing on fenced and posted lands. In "free" 

 America our laws against trespass on fenced property 

 are a howling farce. They are a disgrace to a civilized 

 nation. They represent the fetich of "personal liberty" 

 brutally thrusting aside the most fundamental of all 

 property rights, the right to enjoy peaceable possession. 



It is high time that every state should protect the 

 fenced property of its citizens against armed and dan- 

 gerous, and sometimes defiant, game-hunting trespassers. 



I have said all that I have to say. 



Pro. Henry Fairfield Osborn, the author of "The Age of 

 Mammals," now solemnly says: "We are now at the 

 end of the Age of Mammals !" 



It is my fear that man's rapacity and greed for wild 

 life now is so great that nothing will avail to save for the 

 next century anything more of it than mere tattered rem- 

 nants of a once glorious fauna, — rats, mice and English 

 sparrows. 



Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, naturalist and member of the 

 Fish and Game Commission of Connecticut for eight 

 years, gives the following review of the Connecticut sit- 

 uation on game and fish : 



General conditions in Connecticut — small state, thickly 

 populated. Large foreign population. Good roads, all 

 covers, ponds and streams easily reached by auto. Auto- 

 mobiles greatest present menace to all game. Game legis- 

 lation against auto in some states. Local methods for 

 administrating penalties for game violation wretched. 



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