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to the absurd and outrageous situation. 

 How long will the State Conservation 

 Commissioner be compelled to admin- 

 ister nonsense? Should a State game 

 officer be compelled to prevent the in- 

 dustrious producers of food in other 

 States from feeding the people of New 

 York? Should hundreds of thousands 

 of dollars be sent abroad annually for 

 game when American game farmers in 

 other States are ready to supply the 

 food? 



What has become of the provision in 

 the United States Constitution which 

 says the citizens of the several States 

 shall have the same privileges and im- 

 munities? How about this, Mr. Game 

 Conservation Commissioner? 



quiring that all such crabs under five 

 inches from tip of spike to tip of spike 

 be thrown back in the water. 



The Partridge as a Fighter. 



Editor Outdoor Life: 



Last fall while hunting deer I was 

 waiting at the edge of a small clearing 

 for a buck to appear when I noticed a 

 male partridge coming towards me. He 

 did not notice me till I moved; then he 

 seemed to get mad and ruffled up his 

 feathers and, clucking, came towards me 

 showing fight. To see what his real in- 

 tentions were I started to move away, 

 and, evidently thinking he had me bluffed 

 he ran after me and chased me for about 

 thirty yards, clucking viciously all the 

 while. Then believing that he had run 

 me off, he went into the thick under- 

 brush. — A. A. Thomas, Minnesota, in 

 Outdoor Life. 



CRABS. 



Crab life in Delaware will be con- 

 served, if Daniel Burton, formerly dep- 

 uty collector of internal revenue can have 

 his way. He has pointed out that every 

 year there is in that State a shameful 

 waste of crab life and that it is doing 

 great financial injury, especially to com- 

 munities which border upon the leading 

 crab-producing waters. The same trou- 

 ble is being experienced in Virginia. In 

 this last named State the legislature is 

 asked to pass a law looking to the pro- 

 tection of the egg-bearing mother, by 

 providing a closed season for the sponge 

 crab, and of the small hard crab by re- 



PINIONING. 



When birds are only a few weeks old 

 they are easily pinioned by cutting off the 

 last joint of one wing. A thread should 

 be tied above the cut to prevent the loss 

 of blood. When the birds are old the 

 ligature should be made with care since 

 there will be a greater loss of blood if 

 the work is not properly done. Mr. 

 Job well says one had better see it done 

 by an experienced person before attempt- 

 ing it. 



♦ 



There is much land which" can be 

 bought for a few dollars in Rhode Is- 

 land but it is dear at any price under 

 existing laws. Similar lands can be 

 purchased in Massachusetts for similar 

 prices and they are worth ten times as 

 much because there is more freedom in 

 Massachusetts than there is in Rhode 

 Island. We would advise Rhode Is- 

 land farmers either to move or to have 

 the laws, which provide for arrests for 

 food producing amended. 



Birds May Not Be Brought 



Into This State from 



the South. 



To the Editor of The New York Times : 

 Under the State conservation law 

 (formerly known as the forest, fish and 

 game law) the open season for the tak- 

 ing of all game birds, such as quail, 

 pheasants, grouse and partridge, closed 

 on Dec. 31, 1915, with the exception of 

 wild ducks, on which the season is open 

 for the taking until Jan. 10, 1916, with 

 possession until Jan. 15, 1916. 



It appears, however, that the season is 

 open in many of the Southern States — 

 North Carolina, South Carolina and 

 Georgia — where quail, grouse, partridge, 

 pheasants and wild turkeys may be taken 

 up to March 15. Many of the residents 

 of this city are now going down on shoot- 

 ing trips, and are bringing back to this 

 State the species of game on which our 

 season is closed. The result has been 



