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furnish excellent feeding grounds for the various kinds of ducks and 
other migratory birds that visit this section during their northern and 
southern flight. Big Grassy Lake in Union County, owned and con- 
trolled by the Cobden Gun Club, which will be drained within the 
next two years, is one of the greatest duck roosts in the State of 
Illinois and should be owned and preserved by the Government for a 
resting place for the migratory waterfowls. Raccoon, mink, muskrat, 
skunk, opossum, otter, foxes and wildcats are found in various parts 
of this district. 
Squirrels have increased in the last two years, but under the 
present law, they will undoubtedly decrease. ‘The daily bag limit under 
the present law can not be enforced on account of the possession bag 
limit. If amendments were made to our present law to prohibit bird 
dogs running at large from April 1 to November 1, and also prohibit 
the use of pump and automatic and all other repeating or machine 
guns, our game birds and animals would increase very rapidly. The 
bird: dogs in this district kill and destroy thousands and thousands of 
quail, doves and prairie chickens during the laying and breeding 
season of these birds. 
Respectfully submitted, 
M. R. Faxes, District Warden. 
Headquarters at Carbondale. 
