under cur present printing system, is about 3 ^ each, the results 
obtained through this license tag more than justifies it* s cost 
or the slight inconvenience to sportsmen in order to comply with 
the requirements of the law. In an endeavor to control hunters 
who would not otherwise conduct themselves properly, the sports¬ 
men prevailed upon our last Legislature to change the position 
for wearing the tag from the back of the sleeve to the middle of 
the back principally for the purpose of assisting landowners in 
len the lav/ required 
appehending men who commit depredations, 
wearing the tag on the back of the sleeve it was invariably worn 
on the front of the sleeve or an inch or so out of the position 
in which it was supposed to be, and thus nullified the purpose 
of the law. The benefits derived from this tag briefly stated 
a re ■ 
1. The good sportsmen of Pennsylvania consider it a badge 
of honor.just as the insignia of any good fraternity is rec¬ 
ognized as a mark of distinction, and the law-abiding sports¬ 
men has nothing to fear, and with his license tag on the mid¬ 
dle of his back flaunts to the world his identification. 
2. Through the license tag landowners are given an insur¬ 
ance against depredations that cannot be obtained by any other 
marker or button. In a State the size of Pennsylvania with 
215,000 farms and almost 500,000 hunters this feature alone 
far overbalances the cost of the license tag, or its incon¬ 
venience, 
3. The law-abiding sportsmen through the license tag are 
given an insurance against game lav/ violations that cannot 
be obtained through a field organization several times as 
large as we have in Pennsylvania. Many instances can be cit¬ 
ed in which serious violations of the lav/ have been apprehend¬ 
ed and successfully prosecuted simply because a law-abiding 
sportsman took the license number of. the violator and turned 
it over to the Department or one of its field officers 
The 
license tag in this respect alone is equal to several times 
the number of salaried protectors v/e now have, because there 
are many thousands of law-abiding sportsmen who see to it that 
violations are reported immediately. 
