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manence and prevent extermination. The 

 wicked and wasteful destruction of 

 beaver by the last generation, which all 

 but exterminated the species in North 

 America, should serve as a warning to 

 us at present. 



A survey is now being made of all 

 localities from which complaints have 

 come of damage to meadows, timber, 

 roads or railway grades, by the opera- 

 tions of beaver, and where such actual 

 damage is found the beaver will be 

 caught out by the game commissioner's 

 agents at the proper time and either re- 

 moved alive to other localities or their 

 pelts taken and sold and the revenues 

 turned into the State treasury. — Fins, 

 Feathers and Fur. 



Want Woods and Waters Public. 



Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 2. — The United 

 Sportsmen of Pennsylvania advocate the 

 passage of laws that will make it illegal 

 to lease lands to clubs or companies for 

 the purpose of controlling such lands as 

 private hunting and fishing grounds to 

 the exclusion of the public. — The Sun, 

 N. Y. 



If the United Sportsmen will amend 

 their proposed law so as to make it ille- 

 gal to rent lands for producing beef, 

 mutton and certain species of vegetables 

 We will boom the new law for all that it 

 is worth and let our readers pass on its 

 value. Why should a land owner get 

 any rent for his land? The united band 

 of licensed trespassers can get at the root 

 of the matter by adding a clause repeal- 

 ing all trespass laws. 



The United Sportsmen of Pennsyl- 

 vania should get up a new law prohibit- 

 ing the sale of lands for village sites 

 or subdivisions for residence purposes. 

 There might be a clause preventing the 

 building of any structures on lands used 

 by trespassers. Nothing interferes more 

 with good shooting than the erection of 

 houses somewhat close together. After 

 a long fight in Illinois over a marsh 

 owned by a club for duck shooting the 

 land was sold, drained and subdivided. 

 This of course is more outrageous than 



the mere renting the shooting on farms 

 which are now posted. There should be 

 some provision as to who is to pay the 

 taxes on lands which cannot be rented. 

 Possibly the States can appropriate 

 money for this purpose. 



Committee Named to Handle Soldiers' 

 Homes. 



In response to the request of Franklin 

 K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, for 

 the co-operation of individuals and socie- 

 ties interested in the study of unused 

 lands of the country, with the purpose 

 of providing homes for returned soldiers, 

 the American Defense Society has an- 

 nounced the formation of a Soldiers' 

 Land Army Committee to study this 

 problem. 



The committee is composed of Lyle 

 E. Mahan, a New York lawyer, son of 

 the late Admiral Mahan; Edwin O. 

 Holter, who has had large land experi- 

 ence, and George A. Hurd, president of 

 the Mortgage Bond Company. 



As we understand the matter, the 

 soldiers can have game if they wish to, 

 and we are quite sure they will. We will 

 see that all of them read The Game 

 Breeder ajnd we shall urge them to go 

 in strong for quail and grouse, pheasants, 

 wild ducks and all sorts of game and 

 sport, which will make the home life 

 interesting. 



Goodness Gracious, What a Crime! 



WILD TURKEY BRINGS $152.50. 



Junction, Tex., June 15. — "Woodrow 

 Wilson," a turkey presented to the Red 

 Cross here by A. G. Farmer, was sold 

 and netted $152.50. The turkey was 

 hatched by a chicken hen from a wild 

 turkey egg and raised by Mr. Farmer, 

 and is now three years old and a fine 

 gobbler. After being sold here he was 

 returned to the Red Cross and a spe- 

 cially constructed cage was prepared in 

 which "Woodrow" will make a long jour- 

 ney, his ultimate destination being the 

 home of our President for whom the 

 turkey was named. 



From here "Woodrow" went to Kerr- 

 ville, where after being auctioned off for 



