and there are certainly but
few trappers but wish to see the game and game birds preserved as
well as the dollar man does.

I doubt if there is a man in the State of Pennsylvania who has worked
longer, or done more according to his ability, to protect and
preserve game than the writer has, and as to the dog, he has no
greater friend than the writer. As to the preservation of game and
game birds, I believe in preserving it in a substantial way and not
in a mythical manner, under the pretext of a bounty on noxious
animals and then pass laws that do away with the trap, the most
effective implement there is in taking that noxious animal. As the
game and bounty laws of Pennsylvania stand today, it reminds one of
the old lady who told the boy that he could go in swimming, but he
must not go near the water.

Now, I believe in a bounty on wildcats, hawks and weasel, sufficient
to induce the poor man to spend the time necessary to exterminate
these animals when an opportunity comes to him, for the dollar man
will not take the trouble to do so. But the only effective bounty law
must be placed on the game man, in the way of cutting his bag limit
of birds for a single day and the season in two, and placing a closed
season of five years on deer. There is much said as to the rapid
decrease of game. Now, so far as this applies to deer, and my
observation extends over four counties of the state, at the present
decrease (1913) of the deer, there will not be a deer left in these
four counties at the end of five years and the deer law is being
continually violated. In order to enforce the game laws of the state,
the laws should be as near equal as possible, in giving each man his
way of enjoying his manner of out-door sport, either in fishing,
hunting or trapping. We are aware that there must be a limit to man's
idea of sport. There are plenty of men, for instance, who enjoy the
use of dynamite in fishing, in killing all the fish in the stream,
small fish along with the large ones, also all kinds of fish that
happen to be in the pool where the dynamite is used. It may be the
pleasure of other sportsmen to kill birds of all kinds and also deer
at any and all times of the year. This kind of work can not be
allowed. In order to enforce the game laws, the laws must be in
harmony with the greatest number of people possible, and not enact
game laws that deprives a goodly portion of the people (I refer to
the trapper) of their pleasure simply