on should do to set her house in order. It is not good for the
resourceful and progressive men of the Great Northwest to be clear
behind the times in these matters.

_Stop local game legislation, and enact a code of laws covering the
entire state, uniformly. County legislation is twenty years behind the
times!_

For ten (10) full years, stop the killing of elk, mountain sheep,
mountain goat, caribou, moose, and antelope. Regarding deer, I am in
doubt.

Prohibit the sale of all wild game, no matter where killed, by the
enactment of a Bayne law, complete, which will also

Promote the breeding, killing and sale of domestic game for food
purposes.

Make a careful investigation of the present status of your sage
grouse, every other grouse, quail, and all species of shore birds,
then give a five-year close season, all over the state, to every
species that is "becoming scarce." This will embrace certainly
one-half of the whole number, if not two-thirds.

Provide two bird refuges in the eastern portion of the state, where
they are very greatly needed to supplement the good effects of the
State Game Preserve established on Puget Sound in 1911.

Bar the use in hunting of the odious automatic and pump shotguns
that are now so generally in use all over the United States to the
great detriment of the game and the people.

WEST VIRGINIA:

Considering the fact that West Virginia contains no plague-spot city for
the consumption of commercial wild game, that the sale of all game is
prohibited at all times, and the game of the state may not be exported
for sale elsewhere, the wild life of West Virginia is reasonably secure
from the market gunner,--if an adequate salaried warden force is
provided. Without such a force her game must continue to be destroyed in
the future as in the past to supply the markets of Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. The deer law is excellent, and
the non-game birds, and the dove and wood-duck are perpetually
protected.

One fly in the ointment is--spring shooting; which for ducks, geese and
brant continues from September 1 to April 20. Unfortunately the law
enacted in 1875 against spring shooting has been _repealed,_ and so has
the resident hunting license law (1911).

In view of the impossibility of imagining a good reason for the repeal
of a good law, we recommend:

That the law against spring shooting be re-enacted.

That the resident