The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-19
HART ISSUES WARMING
ON SLAUGHTER OF GAME.
President OF Audubon Society Calls
on Concerted Conservation
Movement.
WANTS vIoLAToRs PROSECUTED
Suggests That Farmers Refuse to
Permit Game-Hogs, Who Kill
Every Bird I'm Convey, to Hunt on
Their Lnndsy

NJ d. Hart. president of the Audu-
bon Society of Virginia, issues n warn
ing TO farmers to guard against the
rgame-hog this season, and to see that
he does not begin hunting before the
season opens on November 2. Mr.. Hart
takes deep interest in all forms OF
wild life. and is particularly censorious
of those hunters who slaughter game
for private gain and boast afterwards
of killing whole coveys OF cartridges
and whole focks of turkeys.
Though there is no law prohibiting
the size of the bag" Mr.. Hart says,
the time has passed when hunter
who calls himself sportsman should
Kill over fifteen or twenty quail n day.
or more than $50 in n season. Because
some hunters are so fortunately stu
ated that they can hunt three or four
days in each week is no reason that
they should forget their brother sports
men, who Will not hunt more thpn three
or four days during the whole season.
"1f theb steady hunter kills beyond
moderation. there Will be nothing for
his less fortunate brother sportsman
when he gets the chance to go.
"If the game butchers, hunting day In
and day out during the open season.
are not stopped by the farmers, there
Will be nothing for the farmer and
his boys to hunt when they finish hous-
ing their crops and get the Emporium
ity for few days hunt.
OPPOSES UNDERGRADUATES
SLAUGHTER OF GAME
THE Audubon Society is not OPP
posed to hunting, but 1t Is intensely
nntagonistic to the excessive slaugh-
ter Of game in the name OF sport.
The disregard 4 certain class of hunt
ers have Cor the landowners rights or
the rights of the hunter who does not
go often-in fact. In their utter selfish
| ness-is one of the greatest menaces
confronting game protectionists and
wild life conservationists.
This class of hunter should not be
allow ed to thrive. and every land owner
should see that he does not hunt on
their farms. He does not give n cop
per for the farmer on whose lands he
| hunts, he will Kill the last bird iE a
! covey the same day, or keep coming
until he gets them all. He will dig n
hare out of the ground or cut tree
to get a squirrel out of it's hollow. He
will Kill the last wild turkey In n
flock You cannot get him to do n lick
Will kill during the hunting season
more game than any thirty other
hunters In tho community.
Nearly every neighborhood has such
character. and he should be served
| timely notice that he is no longer
wanted. $685.
"The sportsmen should watch the
nonresident hunters. and see that they
| pay what you would have to pay If
you hunted in their State. a hunters
license fee.
Watch out for those who start hunt
| ing before season. This is unlawful
and unsportmanlike Have every man
found hunting before Monday, Novam-
| Der 2. reported to your grand jury IL
vol, have no game warden. Get the
| evidence on him.. and the grand jury
| can iEdict him later
I Every country neighborhood can
do as they are doing up In Chesterfield
County. Form local game protective
| associations, which will keep out every
rowing hunter and save the hunting
! for you, your neighbors and such
| friends Us you may invite.
Caution every man who hunts on
your place not to kill your birds down
too close, If he Is not satisfied with
three or four birds out of one covey
| he is q game hog, and 1t would be q
| good thing not to let him hunt at ALL