Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-01-28
UPHOLDS GAME LAWS
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(InOLDS UAHE LAVE
Editor Askov American:
After reading the opinions of others
on the game and fish laws, l find that
some are good and some that l don't
think would be so good.
| am not a special friend of any
game wardens, although l know sew
eral that are very nice men. l like
to hunt game as we'll as any one does,
and being on my first million, and a
long, long way from being a rich
opinion.
AS far as the present game laws
being constitutional or not, that / do
not know, but, any man knows the
laws in regards to carrying loaded
firearms in vehicles on public high
cut of season, etc. Now, if l were
caught doing something that | knew
was against the law, | wouldn't be
the one to hOller, whether there were
six game wardens or sixty and wheth-
er they had a warrant or not, but then
never having been convicted of any
game violations.
Now about this confiscating prop
erty in northeastern Pine county for
rich sportsmen to celebrate on. l
wouldn't say that the home owners
in the game refuge in eastern Pine
county were headed for the poor house
any faster than any one else. If the
refuge was so bad, why did the farm
ers decide to continue it, when they
had the meeting Oh Peterson Bros.
farm last fall?
Now about the damage the wild
game do. never have seen a place
yet where deer have done so terrible
much damage to a farmers crop, UNI
less it was two by four patch OF
rutabagas stuck off in the brush
some place, maybe for the special pur-
pose of attracting the deer there to
be shot.
A farmer near WoOdlake in the
southern part of the state complained
about the pheasants pulling up his
corn and eating up his crops and he
was after the state for damages done
by the pheasants. Two farmers from
Hinckley thought that would be Il
good place to shoot pheasants last fall
but when they got there they found
the farm posted with no hunting
signs and the farmer chased everyone
who tried to hunt there. Now it seems
that if the pheasants did so much
damage, the farmer would of been
glad to have them killed off.
Now about these rich spOrtsmen, |
think they are few, not enough in fact
| for northeastern Pine county. They
come up from the cities with big
car and a high priced outfit, and a
gun that they can't hit the broadside
of barn with, let alone a deer jump
ing through the timber. They hunt
all day, get wet up to their necks, and
all in. The next day they are ready
to buy a deer from some native son or
| farmer that was shot for the purpose,
and pay him more for the deer than
st. Paul. The rich sportsman ropes
the deer on his car, maybe scratching
off some of the paint and drives to
his home to show all his friends.
When he gets the thick hide off,
chances are the meat is spoiled. Now,
who is ahead on this game question,
the rich sportsman or the farmer in
northeastern Pine county?
Now some of these city fellows own
a Lot of this wild land and are en-
titled to hunt on it, not all of this
land is owned by farmers.
Now this idea of one writer, to do
away with the Conservation Depart
ment of the State of Minnesota and let
the settlers sell hunting permits, or the
resident freeholders in a township
agree to let the town clerk issue per-
mits. Well, don't know, but it seems
to me the farmer has got too much
to try to sell now. Secondly, I~don't
think any three farmers could agree
on any one thing for any length OF
time, and l will say when they do
this county will be nicer place to
live in. But after all our country
isn't so bad at that. If had as much
| fault to find with this country as some
foreigners and gangsters you read