The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-12
NATIONS GAME BAG.
AUpUBoN wORkERs TO, CHECK
 MARKET HUNTERS.
Cen.us sf Dyisg ase<s sf Gauhe h me
 Osly Hope ssf Fstsse spsrf. 2 t = state Laws May

New York, Jan. 1l~--Ts measure the
 contents of Uncle Sam's game oag gu
 ring the new year Is the object oL
 concerted effort in which sporsmen
 from every. section of the country are
 joining the National Association or \ Audubon Societies in this city today.
 Detailed records of each days shoot gre to be secured from every true sports man and reouired by law 0f every one else. it is proposed, in all states wheTe the Audubon and sporting interests VII
 urge the crying need Of legieiaion .n this efrect. Unless the annual inroses
 upon the rapidly aecreasins % America are thus determined, the ieaa-
 ers of the new movement declared te- day, shooting as healthy recfeHtion
 will soon be killed in almost every rs- zion of the continent.
 That fine health. crops and woods, as we'll as the sport. of many extenANs localities. are today serfousy menacso by the extinction of game birds, VIII es demonstrated by the latest results VI
 the scientific investigations of govern meat authorities at Washington. Wa ter fowls and shore birds will De shown in their natural capacity of destreying the anopheles mosquito as well es many other recognized distributors or oeaag germs. 3ulis and many other varieues of sea and inland water birds VIII ee proven by ornithological. experts 10 pc wholesale edestroyers of grass.hoppers and a multitude of the insects which cause an annual crop and forest loss of nearly a billion dollars or more than the entire national deht as recently an.
 nounced, according to the most recent calculations of the government bureeu
 of Entomology. The case of Salt Lake
 City, whose people have ereotea q
 monument to tine guils that saved al
 their crops from destruction by an ia'
 sect plague. will also be cited
 l- A In the LeA7slztanca. Tn every one of the forty four State Legislatures which are beginning to convene for the new year. specisi ,sf- forts to obtain legal provision tor this game census are being pianned sfnon9 | sportsmen ], and Audubon workers. Where hunters license law fs already in force, the addition of a law to. en- force the recording of all game pirds ana animals shot will be urged. It is proposed. in order to protect the true sportsmen and to detect market hun. ters, to punish failure to report the sea"
 son's shoot by a forfeiture of license. and false returns by proceeding as against perjury. Special Sianiss for 1 the purpose are being prepared as an l attachment tp all hunters' license cards. | When the purpose and neccessity Of | this widespread checking up of the nations game bag Is realized by the people at iargA,' the labor of compiling | the records of the individual prowess l of millions of hunters wfli be begun. Tn this gigantic task the officers Of the National Association of Audubon 50. I cieties have been promised the hearty I assistance of the Director of the Nafion. @ e.. dinate branch of which their organaxa. l tion has become by the special invfta. | tion Of the authorities at washington. | This conservation movement they win l.forward as one Of their principal aotiv | ities for the new year. together with EtheIr regular work of education. oird | care on reservations and lesfsiatife
 campaigning for gynsraI bird pretscs- lon. l Preserving the Game.
 | "The conservation Of the dying races | of game birds and animals of this COR.
 tinent Is an objeet for. which we are l finding avery true sp0rtspen ready aAA eager to co-operaes wftASuaf safd Vii. | liam Butcher. prezEaan4oofq tssAa NAti0naf
 Association of Aaiauboa societies, at it's | headquarters. 141 Broadway. teddy. "Tbe proposed census is the Only sure way of determining the extent of the l existing commercial1bira butchery and l the. means to cheolS v it. Though we
 shall. of course. haweito fight the organ iEed and financially powerful srfarlet
 hunters at every step toward this end
 I,feel that the support Of the sportBmen will help us greatly and, that we may
 rely upon the support of every patriotic | American as we'll The whole public
 debt of this nation has just been re-
 ported as sss7.34s.7b1. With a known | annual itIar of many YY1flfiOna more than
 this. due to the growing fnroads of the 1 insects which our game birds destroy, l do not think Americans can ignore this subject much longer" s .y