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are posted, sport has nothing to fear 

 from the farmers who may make the 

 game profitably plentiful or who may 

 rent the right to shooting clubs to pro- 

 duce and shoot the wild food birds. 



The farmers who have been stamped- 

 ed into putting the quail on the song 

 bird list in Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, 

 Michigan and other states should know 

 that they have prevented themselves 

 from producing birds which sell readily 

 for $20 and $30 per dozen and which 

 lay eggs worth $6.00 per dozen. When 

 they learn that these birds can be pro- 

 duced abundantly at a very small cost, 

 since they find their food in the fields 

 and woods, and only need a little spe- 

 cial planting and protection in order to 

 become abundant, we believe the farmers 

 easily can be stampeded in the direction 

 of making laws permitting them to pro- 

 duce the food for profit. 



Sport Lovers Form Outdoor Life Club. 

 Miroc Lodge, Name of New Organiza- 

 tion — Hunting and Fishing Objects. 



The formation of a large social organ- 

 ization by Minneapolis men for the pro- 

 motion of outdoor life and sport was 

 made known yesterday in the incorpora- 

 tion of the Miroc lodge. The lodge is 

 capitalized at $25,000. 



The site of the lodge, which will be 

 devoted to hunting, fishing, trapping and 

 other outdoor sports, has not been decid- 

 ed upon. The officers of the club have 

 two places in mind south of this city, 

 but have made no decision. 



Robert M. Laird is president of the 

 Miroc lodge; H. R. Shepardson, vice- 

 president; C. M. Odell, treasurer, and 

 H. K. Zeppinger, secretary. There are 

 17 directors. 



More than 150 local men have joined 

 the club. According to Clinton M. 

 Odell, there will be no limit to the mem- 

 bership. As soon as the site is deter- 

 mined upon it is planned to start work 

 on a suitable clubhouse. 



Directors and officers of the Miroc 

 lodge stated that there will be a hunting 

 preserve as well as one of the biggest 

 trap shooting ranges in the state. Most 

 of the members of the club are members 



of the Minnesota Game and Fish Pro- 

 tective League and part of the work of 

 the club will be to better the conditions 

 of game birds. — Minneapolis Tribune. 



Quails Plentiful; Eat With Chickens. 

 No Meatless Days Foreseen in North- 

 east Oklahoma. 



Bartlesville, Okla., Oct. 6. — Quail are 

 so plentiful in this section this fall and 

 are becoming so tame the "Bob Whites" 

 are coming into the city. Most any 

 morning they can be seen flying around 

 the residence streets or eating in chicken 

 yards. 



Hunters do not want to see the season 

 closed on quail, but farmers and others 

 do. Hunters argue that there are more 

 quail this season than ever before and 

 that if the game laws are rigidly en- 

 forced as to pot hunting, killing them 

 out of season and killing more than 

 the number in a day, not many will be 

 killed in a season. On the other hand, 

 farmers are driving home an argument 

 that will likely do more to have the sea- 

 son closed on quail than any one thing. 

 Farmers argue that the government and 

 the country need the crops ; that quail 

 do more to save crops from attacks by 

 bugs and insects than any one thing, and 

 that "Bob Whites" are the greatest 

 friends of farmers. 



There will be no meatless days for 

 many people in this city and county not 

 so long as there are plenty of squirrels 

 and rabbits to be had. Hundreds of 

 squirrels are being bagged and soon the 

 rabbit season will be on in earnest. Ducks' 

 are coming in in large flocks. So meat 

 and pork can be stricken from the daily 

 meals of many homes and there will be 

 no complaint. 



They May Be War Birds. 



Washington, Feb. 5. — The Army Sig- 

 nal Corps has requested the public to re- 

 frain from shooting pigeons. 



Many complaints have been made that 

 carrier pigeons of the racing homer type 

 have been shot by hunting expeditions, 

 and the important work of training the 

 birds for military service has been se- 

 riously interfered with. Army pigeons 

 are labeled "U. S. A.-18." 



