The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-06
MIGRATORY BIRD LAW TO PROTECT
 COUNTRIES GAME
Federal Advisory Committee Asks Cooperation for
 Enforcement.

The Federal Advisory Committee of the Migratory Bird Law has recently issued statement explaining its posi- ton in recommending the regulations for closed seasons on migratory birds. Among the reasons that controlled the committee were the following:
 First-A most earnest desire to save from certain depletion and threatened anninilation the valuable waterfowl game and insectivorous birds which migrate across the United States twice each year.
 Second.-To accord the hunters in the various states as nearly as pos migratory waterfowl and nomadic game birds.
 Third.-To open the season during which these birds can be legally killed in those months when under normal weather and food conditions the larg- est number of migratory waterfowl and birds sojourn in any particular state.
 Fourth.-To absolutely eliminate spring shooting, when migratory wa ter fowl and birds on the northward migration are journeying towards their breeding grounds. thus impelled by the resistless force of nature, to mate, nest and reproduce their species.
 Fifth.--To recognize unusual and ex- traordinary conditions existing in a few of the states. without effecting the equity or vested rights of the people of the whole country in the migratory wild life.
 6ixth-To submit reasonable, prac- tical, fair and just regulations that should invite the support of all true conservationists
 Seventh.-To guarantee not only to the present generation a reasonable supply of migratory wild life, but to so protect it that it will multiply and be handed to future generations as their proper and rightful heritage.
 These sound reasons for supporting the law will appeal at once to the real sportsman or lover of bird life. Per- haps the game butchers" who go about shooting promiscuously in sea- son--and out if they think they can get away with twill feel that it is curtailment of their liberty as Amer ican citizens. But aside from these avaricious destroyers no one will or can object to having regulations that will prohibit this class of game life from becoming extinct.
 The law aims at conservation of natural resources and not at the pre- vention of their use. It is the aim to allow shooting and to have it so reg ulated that it will improve each year. A sufficient quantity may be killed each year to supply our needs and fur nish wholesome sport but it is a not able fact that if the past unlimited slaughter was allowed to go on un checked we would awake some day to find many of our present game birds extinct. This has been proven in the extinction of the wild passenger pigeon. the American bison and a great number of other animals and birds that have been mercilessly slaughter ed by hunters who give no thought to the future.
 It is fortunate for those who are true lovers of sport and enjoy day in the woods or along shore with dog and gun that a body of men has become in terested in the matter and taken steps that will. assure continued relaxation, sport and table delicacies. from this pleasant outdoor pastime.
 The committee therefore urges and requests all patriotic citizens to exert their influences to the utmost to the end that the incalculable benefits con- templated by this law, and most speci- fically accruing to the people under the regulations just promulgated. be given their moral support, that the en- frightened conscience of the people may be quickened to a full observance and vigilant enforcement of this wise and progressive conservation measure.