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The benefits arising under our conservation laws, as well as the 

 by-products such as keeping the negroes at work during the hunt- 

 ing season, and worthless pilferers of small stock and poultry out 

 of the fields, are so great that the great mass of our people regard 

 the statutes for the conservation of their natural resources of field, 

 forest and streams as the most popular laws enacted in fifty years. 



The wild life of Alabama is steadily coming back. Deer and 

 turkey each year are seen in numbers in counties from which they 

 had practically disappeared twenty years ago. Indeed, a citizen of 

 Tuscaloosa county has for the past two years written the Com- 

 missioner of Game and Fish, each season, demanding pay for his 

 anuanl pea crop which he alleges has been destroyed by herds of 

 the State's deer. 



It is safe to assert that Alabama is far ahead of any other South- 

 ern State in game, bird and fish conservation, being the pioneer in 

 the South in this regard and that the laws rank along with those of 

 the older States of the North and East. 



There is therefore guaranteed to our people and to posterity a 

 fair and reasonable supply of game which bids fair to increase to the 

 point when, as of yore, Alabama will become a hunter's paradise, 

 a veritable sportsman's elysium. 



