136 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



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 quarterly bulletin furnishing full information on what is being 

 done at the various hatcheries, the number of fish liberated and 

 where planted; the same facts concerning the State Game Farm 

 and the raising and liberation of game birds ; also to work out 

 the various problems of game protection and propagation and 

 publish facts of scientific and popular value concerning wild 

 birds, animals and fish, with the idea of gradually working up a 

 complete natural history and survey of the state. 



The sportsmen and public generally have a right also to 

 know more often than once in two years or even once a year just 

 how the money of the Game Protection and Hatchery Funds is 

 being spent and what is being accomplished. So every three 

 months a complete financial statement will be issued in The Ore- 

 gon Sportsman. 



In order to carry out these plans, arrangements have been 

 completed to increase the editorial staff to a board of three, Mr. 

 George Palmer Putnam, Secretary to the Fish and Game Commis- 

 sion; Mr. Carl G. Shoemaker, State Game Warden, and the pres- 

 ent editor who has been elected to the position of State Biologist. 

 Mr. Putnam is well known as a writer of magazine articles and 

 the author of two outdoor books, entitled "The Southland of 

 North America" and "In the Oregon Country." Mr. Shoemaker 

 was formerly editor of the Roseburg News and is well known 

 as a newspaper man. 



GAME DESTRUCTION. 



There are 5,000,000 hunters in the United States. This 

 rather astonishing statement was made the past week to the 

 national conference on American game breeding and preserving 

 held at New York. It is no wonder that game is extinct in so 

 large a part of this country. 



It has sometimes been thought that strict game laws are not 

 democratic. Every farmer's boy cherishes the privilege of get- 

 ting out with his gun. A hunter's license law, with a small fee, 

 looks aristocratic to the farmer, creating a privileged class. But 

 the result of free game shooting appears at the present time. 

 Most men, to get a good bag, have to travel many miles and run 



