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...them a jolt. If & when ratified, it will make wild animals almost as safe in Africa's jungle as they are in a city Zoo. The whole continent will be patched with vast game reserves and national parks. Only in restricted zones around the parks and reserves will sportsmen be allowed and here bag limits will be minute...
What Atholl had done-no crime in the eyes of sportsmen or charitarians-was to offer for sale through agents 1,000,000 tickets at ten shillings each which the public was asked to buy blind (TIME, Nov. 13). So great is the name of Atholl that 304,808 tickets were sold on the Duke's terms, everyone being sure he would do the right thing. With ?152,404 ($736,700) in hand Atholl retired to his castle where, as he said, "Ideas come to me from Heaven." The first idea was to pay the expenses of the ticket...
Game Birds in America Inc. Alarming as it was, the statement sounded conservative to U. S. gunners and ammunition makers, already shocked by a rumor spreading throughout the land. The rumor, far graver than those of possible regulatory measures which worried sportsmen last summer (TIME, Aug. 28), was that a Federal ban would next year fall on all duck-shooting...
...added pheasants. It announced regulations for privately-owned pheasant-shooting preserves whose owners may lease shooting privileges to outsiders. The Board's purpose was "to test and demonstrate the claim that private shooting areas . . . are not harmful to the public interest and are beneficial to the majority of sportsmen by producing more game birds of which many will spread out from the intensively developed areas to restock surrounding covers." The regular pheasant season of one month will be enforced on preserves which release at least 25 pheasants per 100 acres in the ratio of not less than one cock...
...restore the country's diminishing game supply, the American Game Conference in 1930 originated the program of persuading farmers to use their woodlots to raise game birds. More Game Birds in America Inc. has actively backed it. State Legislatures, anxious to help farmers as well as to please sportsmen, have begun to fall into line. Finally, their wits sharpened by Depression, farmers have begun to cooperate. New York, which has a regular pheasant season of only six days, with a two-bird bag limit and shooting of cock birds only, now allows farmers to sell hunting rights on artificially...