FOREST AND STREAM 
917 
With the closing of the duck hunting season 
in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina on Feb¬ 
ruary 15 wild waterfowl shooting ceased until 
next September. The Weeks-McLean bill pro¬ 
hibits gunning at migrants in their northward 
flights before they reach their breeding grounds, 
raise another generation of ducklings and start 
for the south again. The hunting has been 
better the past season in every part of the coun¬ 
try than it has been for several years. 
According to the United States Department of 
Agriculture the Federal migratory bird law en¬ 
acted in 1913 has had a very marked effect upon 
the abundance of waterfowl throughout the 
country. The timely character of the law is 
shown by the fact that the number of migratory 
game birds now existing in the United States is 
only about 10 per cent, of the number found in 
the same area 75 years ago, and the total exter¬ 
mination of many species was imminent. 
Game laws in Texas are pretty much of a 
joke if all things said about them are true. No 
one apparently pays any attention to the laws; 
hunters kill game in or out of season, and very 
few trouble their conscience by paying the li¬ 
cense fee to hunt. Although there were over 
100,000 hunters in Texas last year but 4,426 took 
out hunting licenses and a portion of that num¬ 
ber were non-residents. The $7,637 collected 
from licenses will not go far towards policing 
270,000 square miles. The Legislature doesn’t 
appear to be interested in the game laws, for if 
the law-makers were they would change the law 
to make every hunter pay a license instead of 
allowing him to hunt without a license in his 
own county. The hunters travel to other coun¬ 
ties, knowing that there are no game wardens to 
“flag” them. 
It will be possible—if one is fortunate—to 
shoot deer in four more counties in Pennsyl¬ 
vania next fall, for the ban will be raised in 
Cambria, Fayette, Somerset and Westmoreland. 
In eleven other counties the closed sign will re¬ 
main up for one to three years more. Blair will 
bring down the bars in 1918, and Armstrong, 
Beaver, Butler, Chester, Clarion, Forest, Indi¬ 
ana, Jefferson, McKean and Warren will be 
closed until 1919. A county is “closed,” pro¬ 
viding 200 citizens ask the Game Commission 
to close it. 
The Public Domain Commission of Michigan 
now has charge of the game department in that 
State, and it is anticipated that a considerable 
sum of money will be realized from the recently- 
enacted resident license law. With the funds at 
its command the commission is seeking to ex¬ 
pend it along lines that will be for the best in¬ 
terests of the State. In this connection it has 
instructed Game Warden Oates to establish a 
game farm, and a progressive administration of 
game affairs is expected. 
Game Wardens of the State of Washington 
have formed a Game Wardens’ Association. The 
object of the association is to get the men bet¬ 
ter acquainted and to achieve better results from 
the work they undertake. Governor Lister at¬ 
tended the organization meeting and is much in¬ 
terested in the scheme. 
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