What We Discover Through 
Game Census 
d Rene: more progressive state game 
commissioners are fully awake to the 
importance of taking inventories of the 
game resources of their states. The 
first step in this direction is to secure 
a classified record of the different kinds 
of game killed in the state during each 
hunting season, and a law requiring 
from every gunner before he can take 
out a new hunting license a report as 
to the amount of game he has killed 
the previous season. 
Maryland, which is making a splen- 
did record in a business-like adminis- 
tration of the game department, has 
no such law, but through its state game 
warden, E. Lee LeCompte, it requested 
the gunners of the state last year to 
keep a record of the game killed dur- 
ing the shooting season and to report 
this record to the department. Mr. Le- 
Compte’s request was published in the 
newspapers of the state, and as a re- 
sult 13,705 gunners sent in reports 
showing the taking of 383,427 game 
birds and animals. On a very conser- 
vative basis Mr. LeCompte has esti- 
mated the value of this game to be 
$162,516. 
The hunters sending in reports repre- 
sent less than 20 per cent of those li- 
censed in the State of Maryland; conse- 
quently, it would seem reasonable. to 
assume that about five times the amount 
of game recorded has been taken. Mr. 
LeCompte, however, to be on the safe 
side, only puts the total value of the 
game taken in the state at $500,000. 
There were 70,295 hunting licenses 
issued in Maryland during the last fis- 
cal year. The great majority of these 
licenses were issued at the county li- 
cense fee of $1.10; so, therefore, the 
hunters of the state received at least a 
700 per cent profit on their investment 
in game protection. This is good busi- 
ness, looked at from the commercial 
standpoint only. 
When the Maryland commission has 
carried on this system for several years 
it will have a splendid check, though, of 
course, not an infallible one, on the in- 
crease or decrease of all the different 
varieties of game in the state. In time 
we look to see material advances made 
in estimating the living game left in| 
the covers at the end of each shooting 
season. 
Once the Federal Public Shooting 
Ground-Game Refuge Bill is passed, the 
migratory bird situation will be taken 
care of in a business-like way for the 
present and also for the future as far 
as we can now anticipate. The next 
great advance in game protection will 
be the insurance of the supply of local- 
ized game, and for the accomplishment 
of this object the game census is ad 
keystone of the arch. 
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