February, 1922 
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farm, one may find year after year a 
covey of quail; especially is this true if 
they are generally abundant. I can re- 
turn now to such places upon lands that 
I hunted more than thirty years ago and 
find a covey at almost every favored 
place. If reduced in numbers, by severe 
winters, by wet summers, and by close 
hunting, coveys will not be found in all 
such locations, but they will be found in 
some of them. Every farm can support 
a certain number of quail, depending 
upon the clemency of the seasons, the 
reasonableness of hunting, the adequacy 
of food supply, and the sufficiency of 
cover. In the spring they nest in the 
vicinity of their wintering places ; in the 
summer, there, their young are reared; 
but with the first frosts of autumn, they 
travel in a restricted way, apparently for 
the purpose of selecting a winter home. 
It is this habit of changing locations that 
prevents inbreeding when the coveys 
break up in the spring. At least, they 
are sufficiently appurtenant to the land 
to afford the landowner constructive pos- 
session of them. A legislature which has 
the power to declare quail to be non- 
game birds, has the power to surrender 
their ownership to the owner of the land 
upon which they may be. 
f T NLESS the Ohio sportsmen formu- 
late constructive legislation, and 
present it to the General Assembly, never 
again will they be permitted to hunt quail 
in Ohio. The preparation of legislation 
not sufficiently drastic to insure against 
over-shooting by the many thousands of 
Ohio sportsmen is but a waste of time. 
The obstacles in the way of repeal of any 
law are almost universally more difficult 
than those in the way of enactment. 
There are more than three hundred thou- 
sand licensed hunters in Ohio. The num- 
ber of licenses issued does not establish 
the number of hunters, because one may 
hunt upon his own land without a license. 
Bobwhite would not long survive against 
such a menace, restrained merely by bag 
limit regulation and a short open season. 
These facts, among others, will move the 
landowner to oppose, and he is justified 
in opposing, a mere repeal of the law 
defining quail as non-game birds. A re- 
peal will either fail or be short-lived, un- 
less accompanied by regulatory provi- 
sions, sufficiently radical to insure our 
little friends of the fields against a re- 
currence of pitiful scarcity. We sports- 
men should not forget that it is the farm- 
er’s land where we get our sport, and 
that none are so generous as he in per- 
mitting the free use of his premises by 
others. 
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