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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 25. 1911. 
THE POWDER THAT MAKES 
HUNTING WORTH WHILE 
gun 
YOU WILL HAVE RIGHT LOADS 
IF YOU ORDER 
If birds are plenty 
A day in the field with dog and 
Is made perfect 
When your loads are RIGHT 
SPORTSMEN’S RECOMMENDATIONS. 
Continued front page 299. 
The board of directors is composed of the fol¬ 
lowing: John D. McKee, George Uhl, vVick- 
man Havens, H. J. Knowles, S. J. Pringle, Hall 
McAllister, R. Curtain Baird, George D. Boyd 
and F. B. Norton. Secretary George Uhl is now 
receiving many applications for membership and 
the outlook is that this association will soon be 
one of the largest of the State, numerically 
speaking. 
In San Francisco and Oakland alone over 17,- 
000 licenses are issued annually and a powerful 
organization could be built up here to act in 
conjunction with the California Game and Fish 
Protective Association. Already a number of 
matters have been given attention by this new 
association, and its views wall be presented to 
the State Legislature for consideration. It w r as 
decided to work for an amendment to the game 
laws which would provide an opportunity for 
the raising and marketing of domesticated game 
animals, birds and fish, especially ducks, pheas¬ 
ants, deer and trout. A provision is also favored 
allowing salmon and steelheads to be taken in 
tide water with hook and line the year round. 
Any legislation will be opposed which will re¬ 
duce the season for ducks to less than sixty days 
or the daily bag limit to less than fifteen. How¬ 
ever, it is desired that the limit be reduced to 
that figure. Golden Gate. 
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 13 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The California State Legislature 
now in session has had a large number of sug¬ 
gestions for new hunting laws submitted, and 
there is no doubt but that some of these will 
be acted upon. However, a large number of the 
suggestions are considered to be worthless, as 
they are too drastic as a rule. One prominent 
member of the Legislature is strongly in favor 
of prohibiting by law the leasing of any land 
to be used for the purpose of maintaining a 
private shooting ground, while another foe of 
the shooting club is in favor of the State leas¬ 
ing suitable marsh lands and maintaining open 
grounds for the duck shooters of the State. 
These legislators are striving to bring about 
the passage of measures intended to do away 
with what they term the monopoly of the clubs 
controlling preserves. They argue that the poor 
man has just as much right to enjoy a shoot as 
the rich man, and intend to give him the oppor¬ 
tunity at the expense of the State. A bill has 
been presented providing for the expenditure of 
$10,000 annually for the leasing of land for this 
purpose. A number of strong objections have 
been made to the passage of the measure, and 
it is very doubtful if it will become a law. 
With a public marsh on which all who hold 
hunting licenses might bang away whenever they 
wished, ducks would soon become scarce or leave 
this district and the benefits would be doubtful. 
Among the clubs in the San Francisco Bay re¬ 
gion there is an unwritten law that ducks shall 
be shot at on only two days a week, and this 
rule is very well observed. Thus the birds re¬ 
main in the vicinity of these preserves through 
the entire season, whereas if they were shot at 
each day they would soon depart for less fre¬ 
quented grounds. 
Southern California sportsmen are noting a 
great falling off in the number of ducks to be 
found there, and are asking for special laws to 
fit that part of the State. The local sportsmen 
point to the fact that the birds are shot at al¬ 
most every day on the preserves in the south, 
and suggest that if the rule of the northern clubs 
be followed there, birds would be much more 
plentiful. 
The proposed law to cut down the bag limit 
on ducks and quail from twenty-five to fifteen 
is meeting with considerable favor and the 
chances are that the change will be made. A 
suggestion has been made by a San Francisco 
sportsman that the present limit be allowed to 
remain, but that a weekly limit of fifty birds be 
set. This, it is believed, would put a stop to a 
large amount of market hunting. 
Duck hunting in the bay counties has been 
very poor during the past month on account of 
the excessively heavy rains that have fallen. The 
preserves in the Suisun marshes are now all 
flooded, and with the Sacramento River at the 
flood stage, there is no relief expected before 
the close of the season. Many shooters are 
putting away their guns and will not attempt 
to get out any more this season. Along the 
Petaluma and Sonoma Creek marshes fair sport 
is to be had, canvasbacks and bluebills predomi¬ 
nating in those districts. One of the best 
grounds to be found now for ducks is in the 
