The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-11
Let's Go Hunting
ACTIVITIES OF
DUCK HUNTERS
ARE ATTACKED
Magazine Opens Campaign
on WastefuI Methods
in East.
BY LEFTY LEE
BY LEFTY LEE
TiEes Hunting Editc=

Check among duck hunters on Ine
Atlantic seaboard this season re-
vealeo that for every limit bag
taken an average Of twenty-five
ducks were killed or wounded and
left To die. This is a waste OF al
most so per cent. The publication
Plain Facts states that some OF the
hunters. returning from their sport
with from four 70 six ducks, WouId
boast that they had downed about
three times this number, but could
not recover them This waste in
this section of the country alone
figures into the millions.
The waste also explains the short
age of ducks in this country today.
Some conservationists are advocat-
ing a closed season every second
year as one of the best methods to
bring this sport back to the plane it
formerly held.
With a law of this kind enforced
universally and some money and
time spent at the breeding grounds
to improve these conditions, it
should not be many years before
the ducks and geese will have in
creased to near their former num-
Der.
AS things are at the present time
this sport rapidly is dying out.
Some Of the different species,
that formerly were plentiful, are
rare now. Indiana hunters always
have been reasonable when laws for
the conservation of wild life are
discussed and if the problem Of the
duck rested with this state we feel
certain that it could be brought
back in short order, but the attitude
Of the hunter along the coast is
much different The federal mi
gratory bird law attempts to curtail
this exploitation, but the number OF
bootlegged birds sold on the eastern
markets proves that the attempts
have not been a success.
The hunting season on rabbits
closed at midnight Wednesday, but
the trapping season remains open
until midnight Jan. 10. While you
still are interested in the outdoor
sport it would be a fine time to get
out and knock off some OF those
crows. Turn the feet of the birds
in to the secretary of your conser-
walton club because it takes the feet
of fifty crows to constitute an entry
fee for the conservation depart
nent's contest that will reward the
winners with game birds and cash
prizes. For your information we
publish a letter that Kenneth Kun
kel. director of the fish and game
division of the conservation depart
ment, is sending to all conservation
clubs of the state.
The letter. in part, follows:
"The department has decided to
conduct a campaign in the first six
months of 1884 against what uni
versally is accepted as the greatest
menace to game life in the United
States at the present time; namely,
The crow.
I'VE are asking the clubs to in
terest themselves in this contest not
only because Of the great help it
would be to the cause of conserVa-
ton in Indiana but also in lesser
degree. to the benefit which would
accrue to the clubs from their
participation.
There will be two classes OF
prizes offered by the department
one set, offered under the county
unit. will be one hundred pheasants
or quail, as the county might
choose. to be distributed in that
county over and above their regular
quota: second prize, fifty pheasants
or quail: third prize, twenty-five
pheasants or quail, and fourth prize,
twenty-five pheasants or quail. IN
der the club unit plan there will be
ten prizes. The first prize will be
500 in cash to the club reporting
the greatest number of crows killed.
This money will be paid to the club
treasurer by the department; the
second prize will be $50; third prize,
SIS: fourth prize $50; fifth prize,
SIS; sixth prize. SIS; seventh prize,
SO; eighth prize, $40; ninth prize,
SIS. and tenth prize, So.
1.-THE department is asking that
both feet OF the dead crow be sent
TO the conservation department,
Library building, indianapolis. The
parcel containing the feet should be
we'll marked with the name Of the
club. the county and thN lumber OF
feet contained. Every month there
will be published a report on the
standing of the various units. The
contest will run from Jan. Is to
July is. Special prizes may be Oh
fered from time to time.
Before any club can be eligible
for the prizes it must send the feet
of fifty crows to the department
which will constitute its entry fee.