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ously, they must have the support of those whom 
they believe to be in sympathy with them. This 
support can best be given by joining The American 
Bison Society, and by urging others to join it. 
The work to be done requires money, and for this 
the society depends entirely upon membership 
fees and dues, and occasional private subscrip- 
tions. 
Several forms of membership have been created, 
and the fees and dues have been arranged with 
a view to enabling each person to contribute 
whatever he or she can afford. All members will 
be kept in touch with the society’s work and in- 
formed of its progress. If those who: love our 
native animals will stand together now, the 
buffalo can be saved; in a few years it may- be 
too late. 
We do not think it necessary to ask Americans 
to perpetuate the buffalo because of its commercial 
value. To be sure its flesh very closely resembles 
domestic beef, and its hide is much more valuable 
than that of any domestic animal we have. 
Moreover, the results of the few experiments which 
have been made in cross-breeding seem to indicate 
that by crossing the buffalo with certain breeds of 
cattle, it may be possible to produce a new and 
valuable farm animal, with a thick coat of fine 
soft hair. But we believe that the famous old 
buffalo has a far stronger hold on the American 
people than can be estimated in dollars and cents. 
We know that he is a typical American animal— 
the most conspicuous that ever trod the soil of this 
continent, and, all things considered, perhaps the 
grandest bovine animal of our time. Americans 
will remember that his history is interwoven with 
their own—with the development of the great West, 
and with the history of our Indians and of the 
pioneers. They must never forget the part played 
by the buffalo in those rough times when the com- 
fort, and even the very existence, of thousands of 
men depended on the presence of this huge and 
shaggy beast. 
The extinction of the buffalo would be an irrep- 
arable loss to American fauna; more than that, 
it would be a disgrace to our country. The 
passing of any great and noble animal is a calamity 
which all thoughtful persons should seek to avert. 
But the buffalo has a special claim upon us, inas- 
much as the great services he rendered the country 
in early times were repaid with indescribable 
brutality and persecution. By a series of cold- 
blooded massacres never equaled by any other 
nation calling itself civilized, a great race of animals 
numbering countless millions -was reduced to 
numbers so pitifully small that for a time it was 
regarded as practically extinct. The least we can 
do now to partly atone for this ruthless slaughter 
is to join in measures to prevent what must other- 
wise be the final result of perhaps the greatest 
wrong ever inflicted by man upon a valuable wild 
animal. 
RECREATION bespeaks a substantial response. 
Copies of the circular, with membership 
blanks, etc., may be obtained by addressing 
the Secretary of The American Bison Society, 
Meriden, N. H. 
Alabamans Are Organized 
Mr. John H. Wallace, Jr., of Huntsville, 
Ala., has been successful in organizing the 
Game and Fish Protective Association of 
Alabama, and reports a rapidly growing mem- 
bership and increase of sentiment in favor of 
game and fish protection throughout the State. 
While Mr. Wallace is the author of the pres- 
ent game law of Alabama, he will, backed by 
the new association, introduce a new bill in 
the next Legislature, which, if it becomesa law, 
will create the office of a State game and fish 
warden and establish a game and fish protection 
fund. The new bill as outlined provides that 
the State shall have title to all fish and game 
not owned by private individuals, reduces the 
quail- and dove-shooting season to three 
months a year, the wild turkey season to two 
months, squirrel six months, deer two months 
and protects Mongolian pheasants until 1907. 
Twenty-five quail are to be the limit of a day’s 
bag and shipping of game out of the State is 
to be prohibited. A non-resident license tax 
of $15 will be imposed upon all outsiders for 
the privilege of hunting in Alabama. 
The bill would make it unlawful to catch fish 
except with hook and line, forbid the damming 
of streams except when a fish chute is provided 
and provide a penalty for throwing dyestuffs, 
tar or other injurious substances into streams. 

Unsafe for Pot Hunters 
~ Executive Agent S. F. Fullerton, of the 
Minnesota Game and Fish Commission, who 
has gained fame as a squelcher of game-law 
violators, is not resting on his laurels, Ah, no. 
Of late he has been clearing up Itasca County, 
and, early in July, through one of his wardens, 
A. S. Rutledge, he rounded up one Cochrane 
and had him fined in the sum of $115 and 
sentenced to seventy-five days in jail for killing 
deer out of season. 

Game Preserve for Pennsylvania 
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is the 
latest to fall in line and commence establishing 
State game preserves. Action was taken early 
in July, in accordance with the provisions of 
the Act of May 11, 1905, whereby the Game 
Commission was given authority, in coopera- 
tion with the State Forestry Commission, to 
establish such preserves with the idea of 
propagating wild game. 
Three preserves, each from two to two and 
one-half miles square, in size, will be established 
at once. One will be in Franklin County, near 
Mont Alto, and one each in Clinton and Clear- 
field counties, where the State owns many 
