. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AL DURNEY IN ALL HIS GLORY Popular Alameda Hunter Had Some Good Sport This Year at the Mud Hen Club at Alvarado. The rather dry spring, migratory law and the fact that hunting stops on the last day of January to give the birds a chance to nest are held responsible for the number of ducks and geese that have been in evidence. The quail season has not been so prosperous, so far as limit bags are concerned, but birds have been reported as very numerous. The trouble has been in the dryness of the grounds, which makes it diffi- cult for the hunters to locate their g
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. AL DURNEY IN ALL HIS GLORY Popular Alameda Hunter Had Some Good Sport This Year at the Mud Hen Club at Alvarado. The rather dry spring, migratory law and the fact that hunting stops on the last day of January to give the birds a chance to nest are held responsible for the number of ducks and geese that have been in evidence. The quail season has not been so prosperous, so far as limit bags are concerned, but birds have been reported as very numerous. The trouble has been in the dryness of the grounds, which makes it diffi- cult for the hunters to locate their game. The sea- son -goes out on the last day of the year and it is pleasing that birds have been left to provide sport in 1917. Tacoma, Wash.—H. M. Fisher, of Port Angeles, was elected president of the State Association of Game Wardens and Commissioners at the concluding session of the annual convention. Many revisions in the game laws were suggested and a committee was < named to go to Olympia and urge the importance of the changes on the legislature. North Yakima will be the next meeting place of the association and the date for the convention was set for February, CLOSE-UP VIEW OF CANADIAN GEESE You Find These Beauties Around California Fields and Many Local Hunters Have Bagged Them. Other officers elected were: First vice-president, A. H. B. Jordan, Everett; second vice-president, George J. Hurley, Okanogan county; third vice- president, James Henderson, Yakima county; secre- tary-treasurer, James Zizzard. Spokane, re-elected; members of legislative committee, A. G. Gray, Spo- kane county; George J. Hurley, Okanogan county; R: B. Wales, Spokane county; L. J. Essex, Grays Harbor county; Ira D .Light, Pierce county; H. M. Fisher, Clallam county, and I. H. Hill, Yakima county. Fully 100 delegates attended the business sessions and the major share of them remained over for the annual game dinner held by the Pierce County Game and Game Fish Protective Association. The
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