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...debate, the sportsmen were agreed on their remedy. Introduced in the House by Congressman John W. McCormack of Massachusetts was a bill to raise $7,000,000 a year through a 1? tax on shotgun shells, most of the revenue to be spent to conserve and increase U. S. waterfowl...
...Government last week decided what it was going to do to conserve the drought-diminished flocks of wild duck and other migratory waterfowl this season. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde drafted and President Hoover proclaimed an emergency law. Realizing that it would be a hard law to enforce, President Hoover followed it up with an earnest exhortation...
...take cognizance of this emergency and I call upon all game and conservation officials. State and local, all members of game protective organizations, land owners, sportsmen and public-spirited citizens generally to lend their cooperation to effect full observance of this regulation to the end that adequate numbers of waterfowl may return to their breeding grounds next spring and that there may be no repetition of the calamity of extermination that has already overtaken some species of our American birds...
...emergency regulation curtailed the open season for gunning duck, geese and brant to 31 days in northern States, 30 days in central and southern States. Nowhere in the U. S. may waterfowl be taken before the end of September or after the beginning of January. State authorities may shorten their seasons further if they want to. The Federal bag limits remain as before: 15 ducks, four geese (including brant) per day; not more than 30 ducks or eight geese in possession at one time. Divided to match the times of migration, the new state seasons...
Scarcity of waterfowl has been taken for granted this season. Drought the three past summers has shrunk the breeding grounds of western Canada, prevented nesting and feeding, killed adults and fledglings (TIME, Aug. 10). However, the real effect of drought has been questioned. Ducks have been reported more plentiful than ever in Manitoba, presumably attracted from the desiccated swamps and waterways of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quebec has had ample rainfall (as has the entire Atlantic Coast) this summer. Quebec birds seem normal in numbers and health. In his next issue Editor Raymond Prunty Holland of Field & Stream will remark...