vate the sport of
game shooting, or better protect the game. There is, however, a
melancholy interest attached to the framing of good game laws, whether
they ever are likely to be adopted or not. Here is the duty of North
Carolina:

Stop the killing of robins, doves and larks for food, absolutely and
forever. This measure is necessary to agriculture and to the good
name of the state.

Stop the shooting of any game for sale, prohibit the possession of
game for sale, and the sale of wild native game.

Establish bag limits on all waterfowl, and on all other game birds
and mammals.

Prepare to protect, at an early date, the wild turkey and quail;
for soon they will need it. Moreover, enact a law prohibiting the
use of automatic and pump guns in hunting, covering the entire
state.

Provide a resident-license system and thereby make the game
department self-sustaining, and render it possible to employ a
salaried State Game Commissioner.

It is quite wrong for the people of North Carolina to hold grudges
against northern members of the ducking clubs of Currituck for the
passage of the Bayne law. They had nothing whatever to do with it, and I
can say this because I was in a position which enabled me to know.

NORTH DAKOTA:

In 1911, this sovereign state enacted a law _prohibiting the use of
automobiles_ in hunting wild-fowl; also rifles. North Dakota was the
first state to recognize officially the fact that the use of automobiles
in hunting is a serious menace to some forms of wild life. Beyond all
question, the machines do indeed bring an extra number of birds within
reach of the gun! They increase the annual slaughter; and it is right
and necessary to prohibit by law their use in hunting game of any kind.

In Putman County, New York, I have seen them in action. A load of three
or four gunners is whirled up to a likely mountain-side for ruffed
grouse, and presently the banging begins. After an hour or so spent in
combing out the birds, the hunters jump in, whirl away in a dust-cloud
to another spot two miles away, and "bang-bang-bang" again. After that,
a third locality; and so on, covering six or eight times the territory
that a man in a buggy, or on foot, could possibly shoot over in the same
time!

North Dakota has done well, in the passage of that act. On certain other
matters, she is not so sound.

For instance:

The killing of pinnated grouse should be stopped for ten years;