Call-to-Arms

Last week President Roosevelt issued to hundreds of thousands of peaceful U. S. citizens what virtually amounted to a call-to-arms. Throughout the land guns were taken from the wall, fondled, cleaned, oiled. From Washington had gone news of this year's regulations by the Department of Agriculture for shooting migratory waterfowl.

Welcome to many a U. S. duckhunter was the fact that this year's season will be longer than last. Less welcome was the fact that, because of a general decrease of waterfowl, actual shooting days will be fewer. In each State, hunting will be permitted on days recommended by the State's own game department. Thus, California will hunt Saturdays and Sundays for eleven weeks (22 days), New Mexicans for 14 weeks (28 days). All other States elected the maximum 30-day season, but only Nebraska and West Virginia will observe continuous seasons. In 30 States and Alaska, hunters will shoot three days a week for ten weeks, in nine others five days a week for six weeks. Bag and possession limits are the same as last year except for a few imperiled species.

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