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infringer who want even the present protection 
removed from duck, so that they can be sold 
to restaurants and shipped and bartered and 
trafficked in like chickens or hogs. Mr. Legis¬ 
lator, beware of this entering wedge, which 
means the undoing of the whole law of bird 
protection. 
If you want to be just to yourself and your 
State, make the game laws even more strict. If 
you want your children and your children’s 
children to inherit a better State, protect the 
birds. If you want to be popular with 90 per 
cent, of your constituents don’t listen to the in¬ 
sistent gunner. And now. Mr. Hunter, we had 
better pay the gun tax and quit monkeying with 
the game laws, for some day three million peo¬ 
ple in Texas are going to get mad clean through 
and through and our automatic guns and pump 
guns and smokeless cartridges and decoys will 
be laid away on a ten-year shelf. But after 
all has been said, Mr. Gunner, why not go in 
for the sport as sport and not for meat? Why 
not care for the birds rather than decimate 
them? Why not shoot them, huddled up in a 
frightened heap on the ground, rather than 
wing them? Fight fair, man or boy. Put up 
your nerve, your quick eye, your quick response 
between brain and finger, against the self-de¬ 
fense the Master has given all wild creatures. 
If you will really love the animals you hunt you 
will find as much pleasure in watching them as 
in killing them, and it will be no joy "in killing 
the limit. 
If all the papers in the State will kindly pub¬ 
lish this article, and if all the readers of same 
will drop the writer a postal voting aye for bird 
protection, the writer will send this petition to 
the State game warden, Captain Sterett, and 
which petition will be a mile long and no doubt 
it will find in Austin an immediate recognition. 
Look to the birds for your reward, they will 
send up such a song of joy that all must note 
that this goodly earth seems happier.—W. 
Goodrich Jones in the Houston Post. 
FUR SUPPLY AND DEMAND. 
At the recent London sales tiger skins were 
neglected, of the eighty-two skins offered only 
three being sold. 
Japanese skins met with almost no favor, 
marten and fox skins remained unsold and only 
1,500 mink skins out of 13,491 found buyers. 
Only 3,260 real and bastard chinchilla skins 
were offered; the supply is steadily decreasing, 
the demand was good and October, 1910, prices 
were realized. 
Only sixty-one Falkland Island seal skins 
were offered; they sold readily. Lobos Island 
fur seal skins, 2.997, the first offered in a little 
over two years, brought high prices. 
About 10,000 sable skins are marketed each 
winter in Nicolaevsk, Siberia, at $10 to $50 each. 
The number, however, is decreasing, but it is 
difficult to say whether from the animals being 
exterminated or from the failure of the hunters 
to slay them. The hunting of sables is entirely 
by natives. 
During a good season about 1,000 red fox 
skins at an average of $4 to $5 each are sold 
in the same city of Siberia. The black fox is 
scarce, about ten skins being obtained annually, 
bringing $100 to $250 each. Bear skins are 
plentiful, but owing to the religion of the 
natives, the heads and claws are always removed 
and consequently the hides are of little value, 
selling for $7.50 to $10 each.—Fur News. 
TIME FOR ACTION. 
New York State at last has a law to prevent 
the sale of American wild game with the excep¬ 
tion of hares and rabbits. It provides that 
game bred by private individuals may be mar¬ 
keted if the killing is supervised by a game war¬ 
den and each bird is properly tagged. The sale 
of imported game is permitted, but each bird 
must be tagged before it is put on sale, and 
the same applies to imported venison. Now, 
says the Newark Call, let New Jersey fall in 
line. The New York law was fought hard by 
game dealers, but they were defeated. 
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