Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-21
Stock the Farm With Birds
and Game Says Tom Marshall

Uncle SANS Domcin-one great,
tslAnd game preserve. The recently
ratified treaty between Great Britain
and the United States, conserving and
been welcomed by the true sports
men of America.
This enactment has supplanted the
Federal migratory game law of 1913.
the constitutionality of which has
been pending for a number of years
A decision has been past due and
should have been rendered long since,
as 1t was legal question of interest
to every sportsman who goes afield.
rendering of this decision has been an
invitation to transgression; it has
been claimed by many that the law
was unconstitutional and would not
hold water" This was only an in
dividual opinion in the absence of a
delayed court decision. The recent
National Treaty with legislative con-
firmation eliminates doubt, placing
the law upon legal basis. which will
not be disputed from any angle. The
opposition to the original Federal law
which developed, was due to an at
tempted injection of politics and an
effort to play favorites on the open
season dates in southern zones. The
TRADE this Interpretation promoted
against men who were not in accord
with the law as Originally passed was
unjust. 1t was the stand taken by
those sportsmen, who were blessed
with the courage of their own con-
victions. which brought about the
present beneficial changes in the Fed
eral law as revised, which now abso-
lutely forbids the sale of wild game
except for scientific purposes or birds
reared upon licensed wild game farms.
This antisales clause will have the ef-
feet of stopping the slapghter of wild
life for commercial gain and places
the killing of game on basis of zone
equality, with all good sportsmen. The
open season for waterfowl Except
wood ducks. elder ducks and swami in
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Massachusetts, New York Except
Long Islandl. Pennsylvania. Ken
lucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana.
sofa, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota,
Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado, Wyom-
ing, Montana, Idaho. Nevada, and that
portion of Oregon and Washington
lying east of the summit of the Cas-
cade Mountains, is from September 16
to December 81. In Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, Utah, and that portion of
Oregon and Washington lying west
of the summit of the Cascade Noun
tains, the open season is from Oc-
tober l to January Is. For Long Is
land, New Jersey. Delaware, Okla
homa. Texas, New Mexico and Cali
tober 16 to January 81. In Maryland,
District of Columbia, Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi Tennessee,
Arkansas and Louisiana, the open
season is from November 1 to Janu-
airy 81. In Alaska the open season is
from September l to December Is. In
Louisiana the open season is from
November l to January 81.
L. w. Nelson is chief of the Bureau
of Biological Survey. under which de-
partment the law is operative. 1t is
now logical for the Legislatures of
every state in the Union to pass state
laws conforming with the Federal
laws on open dates and bag Limits.
The market hunter, like the buffalo
and wild pigeon. has become an ex-
tinct species. There is now a gen
eral feeling amongst the sportsmen
endorsing game protection and con-
servation. Swamps, lakes and ponds
have been drained, the land being