ENSES, 1912

In Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Rhode Island an
additional fee of 10 to 20 cents is charged for issuing the license.

Inclosed names indicate States which permit residents to hunt on
their own land without license. Nova Scotia has a $5 resident
license and exempts landowners.

Note that many of the States adopt the French method of exempting
landowners, while some, particularly in the West follow the English
method of requiring everyone who hunts to obtain a license.

From Farmers' Bulletin No. 510, U-S. Dept. of Agriculture]

Elsewhere there appears a statement regarding the elk of Jackson Hole,
and the efforts made and being made to save them. At this point we are
interested in the game of Wyoming as a whole.

First of all, the killing of mountain sheep should absolutely cease,
for ten years.

A similar ten-year close season should be accorded moose and
prong-horned antelope.

All grouse should now be classed with doves and swans (no open
season), and kept there for ten years.

Spring shooting is wrong in principle and vicious in practice; and
it should be stopped in Wyoming, as elsewhere.

The automatic and pump shotguns when used in hunting are a disgrace
to Wyoming, as they are to other states, and should be suppressed;
and the silencer for use in hunting is in the black list.

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CHAPTER XXXII

NEED FOR A FEDERAL MIGRATORY BIRD LAW, NO-SALE-OF-GAME LAW, AND OTHERS

We are assuming that the American people sincerely desire the adequate
protection and increase of bird life, for reasons that are both
sentimental and commercial. Surely every good citizen dislikes to see
millions of dollar's worth of national wealth foolishly wasted, and he
dislikes to pay any unnecessary increased cost of living. There must be
several millions of Americans who feel that way, and who are disposed to
demand a complete revolution in bird protection.

There are four needs of wild bird life that are fundamental, and that
can not be ignored, any more than a builder can ignore the four
cornerstones of his building. Listed in the order of their importance,
they are as follows:

1.--_The federal protection of all migratory birds._

2.--_The total suppression of the sale of native wild game_.

3.--_The total suppression of spring shooting and of shooting in the
breeding season, and_

4.--_Long clos