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porations, and carried on by a bunch of 

 people, 50 per cent, aliens and at least 

 90 per cent, of foreign birth, for which 

 they pay $25,000 a year to sell to the 

 State at a high price the fish that the 

 State has produced. In other words, 

 the State is receiving $25,000 for some- 

 thing that costs it many times that 

 amount to produce. 



The State with its Bowman Act de- 

 rives a revenue from the game farming 

 and domestic fish culture business, and 

 that same State propagates and protects 

 millions of fish to give away to the com- 

 mercial fisherman. The State in 1913 

 planted over fifty million salmon in Cali- 

 fornian streams. The state in the same 

 year paid 20 cents a pound for millions 

 of salmon that they had themselves 

 propagated. The State, with the sports- 

 man's money, planted the fish for the 

 commercial fisherman, the State making 

 the sportsman plant the fish for sport 

 fishing. 



Let the people through the initiative, _ 

 which, thanks to the present administra- 

 tion we have, pass the following laws, 

 and the Fish and Game Commission, who 

 have so successfully solved our food fish 

 supply, if given that power, will just as 

 successfully put the business on a solid 

 financial basis : 



1. That the money derived for the 

 sale of licenses be placed in three funds, 

 namely, hunting, sport fishing, and com- 

 mercial fishing, and the money collected 

 placed in the fund, and used only for 

 the purpose for which it was paid. 



2. That the Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion shall collect enough revenue from 

 the commercial fisherman to make it self- 

 supporting, and an asset to the State. 



3. That it is a misdemeanor to sell 

 food fish in good condition for other 

 purposes than for human consumption. 



4. That a willful violation of any of 

 the fish and game laws carry with it the 

 forfeiture of license. 



— Hayward Journal 



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Some Fun in the Michigan Law. 



William R. Oates, State Game War- 

 den of Michigan, writing to one of the 

 readers of The Game Breeder says : 

 Dear Madam : — 



We are in receipt of your letter of recent 

 date, asking for a permit to sell blue quail. 

 We are enclosing permit for that purpose, 

 herewith. 



I also note what you say about the Indiana 

 law which has been passed recently, a copy of 

 which you enclose in your letter. From our 

 theory of the situation this would not be a 

 proper law to pass in Michigan. If we are to 

 propagate pheasants and other birds in an en- 

 closure and afterward liberate them in a field 

 as a game bird, we must have some protection 

 by which these birds can be looked after in 

 the future. If people were permitted to raise 

 them in captivity and handle them in any way 

 they see fit, there would be no way of pro- 

 tecting the wild bird, and until our people 

 are educated a little more along the line of 

 wild things the temptation would be too great 

 to give them as broad and liberal a law as 

 the one which the people of Indiana have 

 recently passed. 



The Indiana law certainly is an im- 

 provement on the Michigan law, if we 

 understand the last named. Farmers 

 Bulletin 692 informs us that deer raised 

 "in captivity" (in Michigan) may be 

 killed at any time for owner's consump- 

 tion. If Michigan has game officers 

 similar to those in New York who ar- 

 rested a man for eating a grouse sent by 

 a friend in Scotland, they no doubt 

 would arrest the owner's wife if she took 

 a slice of the venison. The law seems a 

 little narrow when compared with the 

 Indiana law sent to the Sate Warden by 

 Miss Helen Bartlett. 



By the same bulletin we are informed 

 that game raised "in captivity" may be 

 sold alive within the State (Michigan) 

 and "under a $1.00 permit alive or dead 

 without the State." The statement 

 would seem to indicate that the Michi- 

 ganders are required to eat their quail 

 alive. If this be the situation the India- 

 na folk will have a right to say : Goosey I 

 Michigander !" 



Another gem in the Michigan law 

 (same Bulletin 692), is this: "Land 

 owners and members of clubs owning- 

 game preserves may take out as hand 

 baggage, during open season, under a $10 

 permit from State Warden, 20 ducks or 





