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FOREST AND STREAM 
October, 1921 
FOREST m STREAM 
FORTY-NINTH YEAR 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
ADVISORY BOARD 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, NEW YORK, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D- C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 111. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3d, Washington, D. C. 
JOHN T. NICHOLS, American Museum of Natural History, New York. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
JOHN P. HOLMAN, Managing Editor 
TOM WOOD, Business Manager 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor rec- 
reation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
THE 1921 GAME LAWS 
A TENDENCY to tighten the restrictions on the 
hunting of birds and big game is noted in the 
game laws for 1921, a summary of which was pub- 
lished in our September number. Among the notable 
changes made during the present year was the amending 
of the migratory bird treaty act regulations with respect 
to bag limits. 
This amendment provides that the daily bag limit of 
any person shall now include “all birds taken by any other 
person who for hire accompanies or assists him in taking 
migratory birds.” This will put an end to the abuse of 
privileges under the regulations regarding the prescribed 
daily bag limits by persons who claim that birds were 
killed by guides accompanying them. 
The Federal waterfowl season for California was 
fixed from October 1 to January 15, replacing the old 
season of October 16 to January 31, the season now be- 
ing the same under both Federal and State laws. Regu- 
lation 9, governing the issuance of Federal scientific per- 
mits, was amended to permit the issuance of limited and 
special permits. 
State legislation harmonized Federal and State laws on 
waterfowl and shore birds in Kansas and Oregon, and on 
waterfowl in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island; Washing- 
ton prescribed a State-wide open season on all migratory 
game birds from October 1 to January 15, thus deviating 
from the Federal regulations, which supersede the State 
law, east of the Cascade Mountains, where it will now 
be possible to hunt migratory game birds only from Oc- 
tober 1 to December 31, without violating either Federal 
or State law ; in Idaho the open season on migratory 
game birds has been shortened under State law two weeks 
by opening October 1, instead of September 16, and ex- 
tending to December 31. 
Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon and 
Washington enacted legislation similar to the Federal reg- 
ulation prohibiting hunting from airplanes. Colorado re- 
duced the bag limit on ducks from 20 to 15 a day, while 
Kansas increased the limit from 20 to 25. In New Jer- 
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sey reedbirds were protected at all times by being placed 
in the non-game class. The open season for woodcock 
was shortened 25 days in Michigan, two weeks in New ® 
York, and one month in Vermont. Doves were pro- # 
tected until 1924 in Colorado ; and in Kansas an open ; 
season on them was provided from September 1 to Oc-' a ' 
tober 15. i ta 
In general, seasons on big game were shortened and 81 
hunting further restricted. Buck laws were enacted in 
Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, South 11 
Dakota, Vermont, and in Washington east of the Cas- 
cades. Maine protected spike bucks and prescribed that ( ' f 
one of the two deer allowed in the eight northern counties "i 
must be an antlered buck, and provided that in two of : -' 1 
the counties only residents may hunt deer during the 1 ® 
last two weeks of the open season. Bull moose were pro-; *1 
tected for five years in Maine. il“ 
Copies of Farmer’s Bulletin 1235 containing the Game ^ 
Laws for 1921 may be had free upon application to the! 1 ! 1 
United States Department of Agriculture, Washington,:! * 
D. C. in 1 
THE MODERATE BAG 
I N the life of every wildfowler there comes a day now to 
and then when the conditions are so favorable to him! 
that the temptation is almost irresistible to make a 
great killing, a record, a balancing of the long account 
of slim bags and blank days. There is even a modicum: 
of justification for his act if he yields to temptation; for 
his mental argument that he can dispose of his kill > 
among friends to whom game is always a treat; that:! 
the law permits him to fill out his limit; that his shoot- 
ing is an expensive pastime, and that any other shooter j 
would, in his place, take heavy toll from passing flocks, 
and be thankful for the opportunity. 
In the last analysis this is a selfish view to-day, how- 
ever fair and just it may have seemed in olden days. 
Then the great flocks of wildfowl came from no one 
knew where and went to parts in which no one held 
any interest. Their numbers were believed to be as 
inexhaustible as the sands of the sea. Times have 
changed and every man who shoots to-day knows that 
only through moderation will there be wildfowl shoot- 
ing for generations to come. 
There is a growing sentiment in favor of observing 
smaller limits than those prescribed by law, and the 
influence of men so minded is becoming a power for 
good. It is another way of applying the doctrine of 
the sporting chance and is worthy of the emulation of 
every sportsman to go abroad for the benefit he de- 
rives from recreation and rest in the open places and 
to make the bagging of game of secondary importance. ; 
FEEDING GROUNDS FOR WILD-FOWL 
A LTHOUGH legislative measures for the protec- 
tion of wild-fowl have multiplied, and have added 
to the restrictions on hunters, these regulations: 
have not been sufficient to maintain these game birds 
in their former abundance. Regions that once were the i 
summer homes of myriads of wild ducks have been 
drained and placed under cultivation, and extensive 
areas where the birds at one time bred are now pop- ; 
ulous farming communities. These changes have 
crowded out the former feathered residents and have 
served in a corresponding degree to reduce their num- 
bers. Realization of these facts has led recently to the 
adoption of other measures to encourage waterfowl. 
A number of extensive marsh areas have been made 
permanent refuges under the guardianship of the De- 
partment of Agriculture, and many private preserves, 
some formed by artificial means, have been established 
