The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-21
TO COUNT NATIONS CANE BAG.

Sportsman Aid Audubon Workers to Check
Market Hunters. Census of Dying Races
of Game, Only Hope of Future Snort
NEW YORK, January 18th. To meas
ure 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 country are
joining the National Association of
Audubon Societies in this city. Detailed
records of each days shoot are to be Sc
cured from every true sportsman and re-
quired by law of every one else, it is pro-
posed, in all States where the Audubon
and sporting interests will urge the cry
ing need of legislation to this effect.
Unless the annual inroads upon the rapid
ly decreasing game of America are thus
determined, the leaders of the new move
ment declared today, shooting as a
healthy recreation will soon be killed in
almost every region of the continent.
That the health, crops and woods, as
we'll as the sport, of many extensive
localities are today seriously menaced by
the extinction of game birds will be dem
onstrated by the latest results of the
scientific Investigations of government
authorities at Washington. Water fowl
and shore birds will be shown in their
natural capacity of destroying the ano-
pheles mosquito as we'll as many other
recognized distributors of deadly germs.
Guls and many other varieties of sea
and inland water birds will be proven by
pathological experts to be wholesale
dsstroyers of grasshoppers and multi
tude of the insects which cause an an
nual crop and forest loss of nearly bill
lion dollars, or more than the entire
national debt as recently announced, ac-
cording to the most recent calculations
of the government Bureau of Entomol
ogy The case of Salt Lake city, whose
people have erected 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 are beginning to con-
vene for the new year special efforts to
obtain legal provision for this game
census are being planned among Or
gained sportsmen and Audubon workers.
Where hunters license law is already
in force the addition of law to enforce
the recording of all game birds and ami
mails 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 by
forfeiture of license and false returns by
proceeding as against perjury. Special
blanks for the purpose are being prepar-
ed as an attachment to all hunters IL
cense cards.
When the purpose and necessity of
this widespread checking up of the
nations game bag is realized by the peo-
pie at large, the labor of compiling the
records of the individual prowess of mil
lions of hunters will be begun. In this
gigantic task the officers of the National
Association of Audubon Societies have
been promised the hearty assistance of
the director of the National Conservation,
a coordinate branch of which their Or
ganization has become by the special in
vitation of the authorities at Washing
ton. This conservation movement they
will forward as one of their principal
activities for the new year, together
with their regular work Of education,
bird care on reservations, and legislative
campaigning for general bird protection.
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