Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-03
MEASURE FOR PROTECTION OF
WILD GAME PASSES HOUSE OF
PRESENTATIVES,
LEGISLATION TO
~ SERVE DUAL PURPOSE
Framed For Protection Of Song Birds
and Feathored Tribe Having Eco
Preserve and Increase Birds to Fur
nish Maximum Amount of Food.
rBy z. G. Dougherty.1

Washington, D. c. July 3-Sportsmen
the struggle of fourteen years has
about been won by the passage of the
house of the treaty enabling act for the
protection Of migratory birds in the
United States and Canada. The bill has
yet to be repassed by the senate, but
this is a little more than a formality.
The object of the legislation" says
a statement issued by the American
Game Protective Association, among
whose membership is numbered
great many Iowa shooters, lis two fold.
first to give absolute protection at all
times to the song birds and those who
are economically valuable to the far
mer. and secondly to preserve and in
crease migratory game birds such as
ducks and geese for the purpose OF
furnishing the maximum amount Of
sport and food
Under the law the shooting seasons
for game birds are made by the Sec
rotary of agriculture, assisted by an
advisory committee of twenty-one men
from all parts of the United States. In
general the principle is followed of
equalling opportunity for sportsmen in
different sections insofar as natural
conditions permit. The open season for
migratory birds is limited to a period
not to exceed three and one half
months in any year"
Iowa Most Productive State.
a good Indication of the agricultural
productiveness of Iowa, is seen in a
statement issued by the department
of agricultW> showing what each state
produces. The state of greatest agri-
cultural production are:
Iowa, $3.50, 900, 900; Illinois, 1885,
100000; Texas, s1,045, 900, 900; Missouri,
$685., 900 900; Ohio. S51, 000, 900; Ne
braska, s7740No,0 900; Indiana, $685. 900
900; Kansas, 1875, 900, oOO,; New York,
Pennsylvania, 1886, 900 900: Georgia
s605, DOC, 900; Wisconsin. 1898, 900, 900;
California ,s575, 900 900; Michigan 1894,
100000; and Kentucky, 1929 900, 900.
Iowa is also listed by the depart
ment as one Of the states in which
women COW testers have recently been
appointed by dairy agents of the United
States department Of agriculture.
Pure Water For Soldiers.
Iowa troops in France and those to
go when the division at Camp Dodge
is given orders to move are to be fur
nshed with pure drinking water by
the American government, the surgeon
general of the army has just an
nounced. TN order to provide pure
drinking water for the men in the
trenches and other sections of the
front where permanent water works
have not been established, mobile water
trains have been constructed and are
now operating in France. A statement
from the surgeon generals office said:
Ihese trains are miniature water
works which chemically treat, filter,
and steriliZe water, making it fit for
consumption. They do every thing that
municipal waterworlls does to insure
water to the people of a city. a number
Of publication units with their at
tached motor tank truck constitute a
train. Each unit is mounted on motor
truck and is a complete alteration
plant including laboratory. Arriving at
a stream it sets hose into the water
and then pumps the water through q
pressure tank. Before the water pas
ically treated When the water is pas
sed out Of the truck it is free from all
disease germs. The pure water is
pumped into tanks mounted on trucks
which carry the water to the soldiers.
The trucks are equipped with electric
lights so that the work may be carried
on at night. Many Of the chemists and
bacteriologist assigned to the mobile
l..
with municipal water works and filter
alton plants"
Many wells in France have been
known to be repositories for poisons
placed by the Germans and the terrific
shell fire of steel and gases has made
most of the water impure The new
scheme will make available always to
the soldiers pure water