at twelve years of age,--and ever so keen to "go
hunting,"--I knew without being told that squirrels and doves were not
_real_ "game" for real boys.)

The killers of doves, squirrels, blackbirds and robins belong in the
same class as the sparrow-and-linnet-killing Italians of Venice, Milan
and Turin, and in that company we will leave them.

Tennessee needs:

A resident license system to provide funds for game protection.

A salaried warden force.

A law prohibiting spring shooting of shore birds and waterfowl.

A law protecting robins, doves and other non-game birds not covered
by the present statute.

TEXAS:

I remember well when the great battle was fought in Texas by the gallant
men and women of the State Audubon Society, to compel the people of
Texas to learn the economic value to agriculture and cotton of the
insectivorous birds. The name of the splendid Brigadier-General who led
the Army of the Defense was Capt. M.B. Davis. That was in 1903.

Since that great fight was won, Texas has been a partly reformed state,
at times quite jealous of her bird life; but still she tolerates spring
shooting and has not made adequate close seasons for her waterfowl;
which is wrong. To-day, the people of Texas do not need to be told that
forty-three species of birds feed on the cotton boll weevil; for they
know it.

On the whole, and for a southern state, the wild-life laws of Texas are
in fairly good shape. On account of the absence of game-scourge markets,
a Bayne law is not so imperatively necessary there as in certain other
states. All the game of the state is protected from sale.

We do assert, however, that if robins are slaughtered as F.L. Crow, the
former Atlantan asserts, all robin shooting should be forever stopped;
that the pinnated grouse should be given a seven-year close season, and
that doves should be taken off the list of game birds and perpetually
protected, both for economic and sentimental reasons, and also because
the too weak and confiding dove is not a "game" bird for red-blooded
men.

Texas should enact without delay a law providing close seasons for
ducks, geese and other waterfowl;

A law prohibiting spring shooting, and

A provision reducing the limit on deer to two bucks a season.

UTAH:

The laws of Utah are far from being up to the requirements of the
present hour. One strange thing has happened in Utah.

When I spent a week in Salt Lake City in 1888, and dev