New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-13
GAME CENSUS MOVE,
Audubon society's Plan to Ascer-
tain Amount Hunters Kill.

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SPORTSMEN ARE INTERESTED
Purpose Is to Find Out How Fast
Birds and Animals Are Being Ex-
Observation-Disclosures to Be Made In
All Legislatures to Get Laws Per-
hitting Count.
To measure the contents of Uncle
SANS game bag during the new year
is the object of concerted effort in
which sportsmen from every section of
the United States and the National As
ISOLATION of Audubon Societies in New
York city are joining hands. 1t is pro-
posed that detailed records of each
days shoot be secured from every true
sportsman and required by law of
every one else in all states where the
Audubon and sporting interests can
obtain the necessary legislation I'm
less the annual inroads upon the rap
idly decreasing game Of America are
thus determined, SO the leaders of the
new movement declared the other day,
shooting as healthful recreation will
soon be killed in almost every region
of the continent
That the health. crops and woods, as
well as the sport, of many extensive
localities are today seriously menaced
by the threatened extinction Of game
birds will be demonstrated through the
latest scientific investigations by gov
eminent authorities at Washington.
Waterfowl and shore birds will be
shown in their natural capacity of de-
stroying the anopheles mosquito, as
well as many other recognized disturb
ers of deadly germs. Gulls and many
other varieties Of sea and inland water
birds will be proved by pathological
experts to be wholesale destroyers Of
grasshoppers and multitude Of the in
sects which cause an annual crop and
q! forest loss of nearly billion dollars,
or more than the entire national debt,
according to the most recent calcula-
tons of the government bureau of en-
tomology. The case Of Salt Lake City,
whose people have erected a monument
to the gulls that saved all their crops
from destruction by an insect plague,
will also be cited
In every one Of the forty -four state
legislatures which convene in the new
year special efforts will be made to OBJ
tain legal provision for this game
census, says the New York Post.
Where hunters license law is al
ready in force the addition of a law
birds and animals shot will be urged.
1t is proposed, in order to protect the
true sportsmen and to detect market
hunters, to punish failure to report the
seasons shoot 4by a forfeiture of Ii
cense and false returns by proceeding
rs against perjury. Special blanks for
the purpose are being prepared as an
attachment to all hunters license cards.
When the purpose and necessity of
this widespread checking up Of the
nations game bag are realized by the
people at large, the labor of com
piling the records of the individual
prowess of millions of hunters will be
begun. In this gigantic task the Off
GERS of the National Association of
Audubon Societies. have been prom
1 ised the hearty assistance of the di-
rector of the national conservation
commission, Of which their organiZa-
ton has become a coordinate branch
by special invitation of the author
tiles at Washington. This conserva-
ton movement they will forward as
one of their principal activities for the
new year. together with their regular
work of education, bird care on reser-
vations and legislative campaigning
for general bird protection.
The conservation of the dying races
of the game birds and animals of this
continent is an object for which we
are finding every true sportsman ready
and eager to cooperate" said William
butcher, president of the National AS
ISOLATION of Audubon Societies, at its
headquarters in New York city the
other day. '.The proposed census is
the only sure way Of determining the
extent of the existing commercial bird
butchery and the means to check it..
Though we shall, of course, have to
light the organized and financially pow
erful market hunters at every step to-
ward this end, feel sure that the sup
port OF the sportsmen will help us
greatly and that we may rely upon
the support of every patriotic Amer
lean as we'll The whole public debt
of this nation has just been reported
as $780,, 349. 751. With a known annual
loss O, many millions more than this
due to the growing inroads of the in
sects which our game birds destroy,
do not think Americans can ignore this
subject much longer"
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