The Cairo bulletin., 1911-07-18
CONSERVATION OF
A PROBLEM
..
Automobile and AeropIane
Used In Hunting.

~ VERY year the biological survey
- makes a report covering the
progress Of game protection in
the United States. The reports
mark a steady progress in the move
ment for the increase Of game by prop
agation andjhe establishment of game
preserves. This years report. just
published. is made by y s Palmer and
Henry Oldys. They relate that the in.
creased popularity of the automobile
by hnntsmen was marked, and The
possibility OF utilizing the aeroplane In
duck shooting was demonstrated hy
an experiment in southern California
last November. So far as Is known.
this was the first attempt made to use
tue aeropiane III shooting game.
Another innovation was frowned
upon when Maine court imposed q
hne upon d nonresident for using one OF
the recently invented siiencers on his
rifle while out after deer. This was
the nrst conviction in any court for
this new oifense Another imnortant
court decision was that Of the supreme
court of Pennsylvania prohibiting the
use of automatic guns In Pennsyl
vania also the law prohibiting the
possession Of firearms bv aliens was
upheld in the lower courts, and liz CON
sequence the disarming OF aliens has
made rapid progress.
A count taken by the American
Bison society shows a total OF 210S
pure blood buffalo in North America
as compared with 1917 at the date OF
the last census. made IN 1908 OF
these 1907 are in captivity In the Unit
ed States, 626 are in captivity IN Can
ada and Ats are wild The CORE
spending figures for 1908 were l,llG
f76 and 1926, The decrease in the mum
Der in the United States was caused
by the large purchases made by the
Canadian government. The total NUN
Der OF buffalo has, however increa sed
by nearly 200
The largest herds In private hands
are now those of the Soldiers Creel<
park at Belvldere. Kan; the remain
der Of the Pablo herd at Ronnu.
Mont, the Blue Mountain Forest rs
ISOLATION herd ut Newport. n. H.. the
Lille herd at Pawnee. Okla; the Phil
lips herd ut Pierre. s. D.; the Good.
night herd at Goodnight. Tex, and the
Dooley herd on Antelope island, in
Great Salt lake. The outlaw buffalo
belonging to Michel Pablo, which have
thus far detied all attempts at cap
ture, are supposed to number about
seventy-fiye, IL was announced in the
autumn that a hunt would be organ
lied by the owner of the herd, The
state warden Immediately took steps
TO prevent the hunt under the pro
visions Of an old Montana law prohib-
tting the killing OF buffalo al any time
In the state.
Waterfowl and Woods Game.
From the gunner's viewpoint the
waterfowl season was not satisfactory |
last year, but from the standpoint OF /
the game conservationists IL seems 20 |
have been very favorable On the At |
lantlc coast the number Of canvas !
backs and redheads was greater thnn |
usual in the Long Island bays and on |
the Massachusetts coast, but much |
smaller than usual on the Susqueban |
na fats and Currituck sound where |
these species are usually abundant /
are reported as numerous !
and increasing on Cayuga lake, cen
tral New York, where they were very |
scarce a dozen years ago
Introduced pheasants seem to have /
held their own in sections where they I
have become established and In some |
instances show an increase. Ia the |
region around Buffalo N. Y where |
shooting is permitted for short sea |
son in the fall and where 1900 IL is |
We're killed In 1908. the |
stock does not seem TO have been Iii |
In the Genesee valley and |
In the region around Canandalgua
pheasants have become quite numer-
Gus. In Massachusetts the birds seem |
to be holding their own, and the same
is true OF Ohio.
In no place whore they have beer |
liberated have Hungarian parlridges
yet become fully established. aad IN