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the year, and I further think that this unsound propaganda is likely to 
result, as a by-product of its lack of direction and generally inauthorita- 
tive nature, in the killing of vast numbers of birds and animals at the 
breeding season that should be conscientiously protected. A gun and a 
specious excuse to shoot it, in the hands of the average sportsman, even 
(to say nothing of the eee careful group comprising the mere gunners 
and aliens), in the nesting and summer seasons, is a nefarious proposi- 
tion, and while crows may be fair vermin for every gun, I feel you are 
making a very grave mistake in including other species where mistakes 
are so difficult to avoid, and I think such activities as club ‘side-shoots’ 
aimed at the list of birds and animals listed for killing by the Carthage 
Club, is nothing short of nefarious and degenerate, and absolutely and 
directly in opposition to all the good, hard, slow work of conservation edu- 
cation that is just beginning to bear fruit. I may be prejudiced myself 
though I try to see clearly in this matter. 
“But to me there appears in this extension work of the Du Pont 
Company not one bit of the spirit or desite of the conservationist; on 
the other hand, from what I have seen and heard of it I get the impres- 
sion that it is nothing but a rather cheap means of equalizing production 
and sales over a dull season of the year, and that in its moral effect it 
cannot fail to be a great backward step in this country just as the real 
conservation idea is beginning to bear fruit. Therefore, I deplore it, and 
wish I knew some way of effectively blocking your campaign and calling 
the Biological Survey’s active attention to the evil phases of your plan, 
in an attempt to put this control where it belongs instead of i inciting a 
well-meaning ignorant country into a campaign, in the large against its 
interests under the specious cover of your advertising propaganda. 
“T trust that by your request for them you really wanted opinions. 
This is mine, and until you can convince me that my impressions are 
false I shall continue to hold them and to pass them on whenever I can. 
I don’t believe in your plan. I don’t think that it is at all appropriate 
for any ammunition company to put on a campaign like this, and I 
wonder seriously if the Biological Survey is going to he dormant and 
tacitly agree to abide by all the ‘authority’ that you credit to it. And 
who is Frank Winch?”’ 
Quail Increasing in Ohio; Squirrels Going Out 
HE gray squirrel is practically extinct, the fox squirrel is getting rare, 
and the red squirrel, which came here within the last 70 years, is 
not wonderfully prosperous. I like to shoot rabbits, but no quail. 
When I seek permission to hunt, the farmer ties up the bargain with a 
string like this: “But don’t shoot the quail!” 
From Albert E. Andrews, Editor of “The Farmers’ Guide,” Hunting. 
ton, Ind., November 20, 192}. 
