The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-13
HELP PROTECT
FLORIDA GAME
ASSOCIATION TO AS
SYST GAME WARDEN E. ZJONEs
TO ENFORCE NEW GAME LAW.
ANNUAL SLAUGHTER Is GREAT.

The Jacksonville Metropolis says:
Special Agent P. S. Farnham of the
American Game Protection and Propa-
CATION Association, with headquarters
in New York, is visiting the city for
the purpose OF assisting State Game
Commissioner E. Il. Jones to organize
his force of county game wardens,
but is unable to accomplish much by
reason of the fact that Mr.. Jones mas
not appointed wardens in all counties
and is further handicapped by lack Of
funds. Mr.. Farnham predicts, how
ever, that Mr.. Jones will eventually
enforce the new game law in thor
ough and effective manner.
MIR Jones is not only interested in
the preservation and propagation of
game in Florida, but he has the fur
Their qualification of being a. thorough
business man, and predict that with
in a year he will have his forces
strongly organized" said Mr.. Farm
ham. when the license tax required
of the state and out Of state sports
men is paid, Mr.. Jones will have plen-
ty of money to operate with. and then
I expect to see great things done
toward preserving and propagating
Florida fish and game. Every sports
man and citizen of Florida should CD
operate in this work, which should
have been undertaken twenty years
ago. Other states have had the same
backward experience, but now forty
one have enacted, and are enforcing
stringent laws.
Slaughter Of Game.
1.-THE slaughter of game of all kinds
in Florida for years past. has been
great, and particularly has this been
the case with ducks" continued Mr..
Franham. "In season and out Of sea-
son, millions Of ducks have been
shipped to New York from Florida
but by these market pot hunters. who
will be subject to the national Law
after October 1, as well as the state
laws, which will be enforced Our
association will send another man TO
Florida to aid Mr.. Jones, If necessary
wardens and sportsmen thoroughly
organized. Florida is a paradise for
game of various kinds, and the people
now realize the need of game protec-
ton, / believe"
Associations Good Work.
With John B. Burnham of New
l.
Protection and Propagation Associa-
ton has worked wonders in many
states, since its organization, being re-
sponsible for the passage OF strong
laws in many states, and taking the
lead in having congress pass the law
protecting migratory birds.
The association has a 6,o0o-acee
farm in Massachusetts,, where pleas
ants, quail. grouse, wild turkeys. ducks
and geese are bred and given to mem
bers. including sportsmen in ali Sec
tons Of the country. Mr.. Farnham
stated that pheasants would do well
in Florida. but that he thought the
state officials and people should de-
vote their time principally TO the pro-
lection of native game.
Mr.. Farnham was called to F7orida
from Maryland, where he has been at
tending the state fair with a force of
men, who are lecturing and otherwise
Interesting Marylanders in the pass-
age and enforcement OF laws protect
ing game and fish. He believes that
every state in the union will at TO
distant date have a law just as effec-
tive as that passed at the recent Flor
ida legislative SESSION. and the asso-
citation is working toward that end in
practically every country on the Am
erican continent.