The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-03-04
HEALTH III OLD AGE

sands of dollars every year in the prop
agation of game and it's protection
The citizens of New Jersey pay for all
this, and think 1t would be only fair
il n0nresidents were required to con-
tribute their share. New Jersey has
taken front rank in fish and game
protection, and the result is that gun
ners from all over the country are at
tracted hither, state of affairs which
is only accentuated by the fact that
New Jersey is the great highway be
tween the populous cities of New York
and Philadelphia. The residents OF
both these cities find it very convenient
to slip across ferry and enjoy the
game which belongs to New Jersey
and which New Jersey pays for. The
best hunting grounds near New Yorl
and Philadelphia are in New Jersey
but the time is coming when it will be
impossible to stock our covers to sat
isfy the demand. Nonresidents should
be required to assist in defraying this
annually increasing expense. Della
ware and a number of other states
AdfC R1cSCd laws SuCl IL
censes from nonresidents. Perhaps the
principle of retaliation alone would
constitute a sufficient argument in ia
vor of the passage of license law
but there is one thing certain. and that
is if Delaware and other states deem ii
advisable to have such law it is rem
dered imperatively necessary in New
| IF
New York and New Jersey have bought
up large tracts of land, especially along
the seaceast, for wild fowl shooting
The resident of the state is kept off
these preserves. If these nonresidents
want to enjoy the peculiar advantages
pertaining to New Jersey, they ought
to be willing to pay for them and, by
affording funds to stock the fields and
woods open to all. in measure make
up for what they have deprived the
citizens of New Jersey Of.
1.-THE proper principle for the enact
ment Of fish and game laws is one of
restriction. With every year there is
an increase of gunners, and the prog
ress of civilization and increase of pop
ulation denude large tracts of land
of trees and shrubbery The chances
for the existence of game are decreas-
ing. The chances of its being killed on
account of the increase in gunners and
the improvement in firearms are con-
tinually on the increase. For this rea-
son we shall ask the legislature to pass
law limiting the number of birds and
other game animals gunner may kill
in 3 day, and also restricting the TAX
ing of fish as far as numbers are con-
cerned. We cannot keep up the supply
without some such measure.
by an inadvertence the last legisla-
ture passed law permitting the kill
ing of fickers, as the yellow winged
woodpecker is known in this state
The Audubon societies all over the
state are up In arms over this enact
ment, but I hardly consider the sub
ject worthy of argument The flicker
is one Of the most beautiful and one of
the most useful of birds to the farmer,
for it devotes its whole life to the kill
ing of insects. If f1ickers are not to
be protected and if gunners are to be
permitted to kill them in the months
when our game birds are mere fedge.
lings, we might as well let down the
bars and kill off ali our birds and
game.
by another inadvertence the legisla-
ture last year removed all protection
from deer. but l do not presume there
will be even the slightest objection to
the enactment of statute giving prop
er protection to the few deer that are
left in the state.
81 also believe that July woodcock
shooting should be abolished and that
there should be protection for eagles
and beavers. The latter animals have
again put in an appearance in the
state, having been introduced by the
owners of some game preserves. But
these are minor matters, and our prin-
cipal insistence this year will be the
nonresident license law, the limitation
in the number of fish and game to be
taken and the protection of deer and
fiickers"
do you think that the stocking the
commission has done in the past few
years has been rewarded with success
full resultsY' inquired the reporter.
THAT is difficult question to an
swer definitely" replied Mr. Frothing-
ham, Il should certainly answer it af-
Tentatively, and that without any hest
tation, but to give any definite idea as
to the extent of the success would be
impossible. am free to say that as
far as stocking with ringnecked pleas
ants is concerned it was an utter fail
ure, but l do not think this should be
ascribed to the commission. These birds
and their Japanese congener have been
SUCCESSFULLY introduced In many of the