. Bird lore . Occasionally a back-ward season delays harvesting and allows the wild fowl to arrive before it is com-plete; but the good they do in other years by destroying the red rice far more thancompensates for the harm done in the exceptional years. He states that men who have been engaged in market hunting near HighIsland, Texas, for fifteen years assure him that the number of ducks of all varie-ties, except perhaps the teal, have decreased fully 50 per cent. Where duckshave decreased so markedly in numbers in such a brief period the present lawsparticularly the bag limit should be kept
. Bird lore . Occasionally a back-ward season delays harvesting and allows the wild fowl to arrive before it is com-plete; but the good they do in other years by destroying the red rice far more thancompensates for the harm done in the exceptional years. He states that men who have been engaged in market hunting near HighIsland, Texas, for fifteen years assure him that the number of ducks of all varie-ties, except perhaps the teal, have decreased fully 50 per cent. Where duckshave decreased so markedly in numbers in such a brief period the present lawsparticularly the bag limit should be kept on the statute books and the law shouldbe rigidly enforced. The game laws of Texas do not yet give wild fowl adequate protection. Springshooting, now forbidden by law in many states is not prohibited here. The annul-ment of the present bag limit and the restrictions on the sale of game would resultin the ultimate destruction of this bounteous annual food supply—this naturalasset of the great state of CRAYFISH. INJURES DIKES AND freelv bv Wild Ducks dje Audubon Societies EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, tothe National Association of Audubon Societies. 141 Broadway, New York City National Conservation Commission One of the most important mcctinf^sever held in this country was the onecalled by President Roosevelt last spring;,when he invited the governors of the sev-eral states to meet in Washington to con-sider the l)est methods of conserving thenatural resources of the country. The outgrowth of the meeting was theformation of the National ConservationCommission, under the leadership of Pinchot, Chief l-orester of theUnited States. Recently Mr. Iinchot asked tlie Na-tional Association to appoint a committeeof five of its mcmljers to take cliarge ofwild l)ird and animal protection in theUnited States as a sub-committee to co-operate with the Commission.
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