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servat?on Society and we can see no rea- 

 son why you should wish thus to dis- 

 grace the Secretary of Agriculture, who 

 is responsible for your action. 



A few people expressed surprise at our 

 opposition to the Migratory Bird Law, so 

 called. 



Do you wonder, worthy reader, that we 

 think it is not to the best interests of 

 game breeders or of the American peo- 

 ple at large to turn over the crime-making 

 power of Congress to people who have 

 notions like the above as to what others 

 should be permitted to do, notions which 

 any one with common sense will say are 

 not only wrong, but ridiculous. 



The proposed new law in efifect cre- 

 ates a new house of Congress, composed 

 of people who refuse to let breeders have 

 stock birds and some others whose con- 

 duct recently has not met with the ap- 

 proval of sensible people. Next to the 

 man who really engineered the refusal to 

 permit us to experiment with the Mexi- 

 cans (we fortunately have a lot of north- 

 ern quail), stands the man who recently 

 tried to close ■ absolutely the food pro- 

 ducing area, Long Island. 



These are the people who propose that 

 Congress shall delegate to them the right 

 to make criminal laws and also to exe- 

 cute the laws they make ; they are to have 

 the same powers as respectable United 

 States marshals have, we are told. 



The animus of these people towards 

 the food producers has been shown often 

 enough to make us view with alarm the 

 turning over to them of the crime-making 

 powers of Congress with the right to 

 execute the laws they may make. Those 

 who know what is going on thoroughly 

 understand why we do not hesitate to 

 express our opinion of what we regard 

 as worse than a legal absurdity. There 

 may be enough money in sight to put 

 the law through. We hope and believe 

 there are enough statesmen in Congress 

 to defeat it. If they give it careful con- 

 sideration that will settle it. 



Now is a good time to send in your 

 egg advertisements. Many people want 

 early eggs and to get them will place 

 their c)rders early. 



A Fish Enemy. 



Guide Algie P. Farnham while going 

 the rounds to his traps last week came 

 upon a large blue heron on a brook. He 

 shot him, took out eight trout out of him 

 and two of these weighed over half a 

 pound and were just killed by the heron. 



Ducks Damage Rice. 



Resolutions condemning the state fish 

 and game commission were passed at a 

 meeting of the Pacific Rice Growers' As- 

 sociation held recently. 



Th action, taken on motion of H. O. 

 Jacobsen, general manager of the West- 

 ern Rice Company's interests in Butte 

 County, denounces the commission for 

 its opposition to legislation that might 

 tend to lessen the loss to crops caused by 

 wild fowl. 



A demand is made that the commis- 

 sion thoroughly investigate the damage 

 done by ducks to rice and present a meas- 

 ure before the next legislature amending 

 the existing game laws so that growers 

 can efifectually fight the ravages of ducks 

 when they invade the fields. It was stat- 

 ed that the damage already done this 

 year would amount to many thousands 

 of dollars. — Sacramento, Cal., Union. 



'Ware the Goshawks Migrating From 

 Arctic. 



A warning to sportsmen and others 

 that a dangerous migration of goshawks 

 from arctic regions to this state is in 

 progress has been issued by the state fish 

 and game commissioners and the Massa- 

 chusetts Fish and Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation. The commissioners urge the de- 

 struction of these birds, which are de- 

 scribed as deadly enemies of native game 

 birds. 



The present invasion is said to be the 

 most serious since that of eleven years 

 ago, when the birds, driven southward 

 by a scarcity of hare and ptarmigan, their 

 usual prey, came to this state and de- 

 voured grouse by the wholesale. The 

 goshawk, which, unlike other hawks, flies 

 straightaway instead of in circles, is 

 somewhat larger than a pigeon. — The 

 Globe, N. V. 



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