The shooting of all water-fowl should cease on January 1.

  A reasonable limit should be established on deer.

  A hunting license law should be passed at once, fixing the fee at $1
  and devoting the revenue to the pay of a corps of non-political game
  wardens, selected on a basis of ability and fitness.

  The administration of the game laws should be placed in charge of a
  salaried game commissioner.

It is seriously to the discredit of Mississippi that her laws actually classify robins, cedar-birds, grosbeaks and doves as “game,” and make them killable as such from Sept. 1 to March 1! I should think that if no economic consideration carried weight in Mississippi, state pride alone would be sufficient to promote a correction of the evil.  If we of the North were to slaughter mockingbirds for food, when they come North to visit us, the men of the South would call us greedy barbarians; and they would be quite right.

MISSOURI: 

  The Missouri bag limits that permit the killing or possession of
  fifty birds per day are absurd, and fatally liberal.  The utmost
  should be twenty-five; and even that is too high.

  Doves should be taken off the list of game birds, and protected
  throughout the year; and so should all tree squirrels.

  Spring shooting of shore birds and waterfowl should be prohibited
  without delay.

  A law against automatic and pump guns should be enacted at the next
  legislative session, as a public lesson on the raising of the
  standard of ethics in shooting.

The state of Missouri is really strong in her position as a game-protecting state.  She perpetually protects such vanishing species as the ruffed grouse, prairie chicken (pinnated grouse), woodcock, and all her shore birds save snipe and plover.  She prohibits the sale of native game and the killing of female deer; but she wisely permits the sale of preserve-bred elk and deer under the tags of the State Game Commission.  For nearly all the wild game that is accessible, her markets are tightly closed.

We heartily congratulate Missouri on her advanced position on the sale of game, and we hope that the people of Iowa will even yet profit by her good example.

MONTANA: 

Like Colorado and Wyoming, Montana is wasting a valuable heritage of wild game while she struggles to maintain the theory that she still is in the list of states that furnish big-game hunting.  It is a fact that ten years ago most sportsmen began to regard Montana as a has-been for big game, and began to seek better hunting-grounds elsewhere.  British Columbia, Alberta and Alaska have done much for the game of Montana by drawing sportsmen away from it.  Mr. Henry Avare, the State Game Warden, is optimistic regarding even the big game, and believes that it is holding its own.  This is partially true of white-tailed