152 BREAKING A BIRD DOG 
and other songsters. I have even recently 
noticed a tendency in some other states to 
follow Ohio’s example. To them I would 
like to urge DON’T DO IT. I cannot but believe 
that the tendency referred to is not so much 
that these other states think the measure a 
wise one, but that they naturally feel like 
following the leadership—in this as in other 
matters—of one so important as the Buck¬ 
eye State. A certain sense of obligation, 
therefore, rests upon Ohio that her example 
may be one worthy of being followed. Un¬ 
questionably this song-bird law should be 
repealed—for it is not a credit to our statute 
books. It is merely one more prohibition 
that does not prohibit. If any reader cares 
to go deeper into this subject he might get 
the January 5, 1924, and February 23, 1924, 
issues of National Stockman and Farmer and 
read my debate with the farmers through 
the columns of that worthy publication, 
which has always been so fearless and so 
fair. 
No one imagines for a minute that quail 
are song birds. The farmers themselves do 
not think so, nor really want them so classi- 
