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Show State-Wide Crow Derby Planned By Game Department i Plans to conduct a state-wide crow derby are under way and the campaign against the black marauder ma-rauder will begin in about two weeks, Director Leonard of the Utah Fish and Game Department, announced today. (The campaign to curtail the crow, which has come to this state in alarming numbers, is being be-ing sponsored jointly by the sports- men's organizations and the game department. Traps are' already being be-ing made and crows for banding will be caught and liberated as soon as posible, the game leader said. , Prize birds will be 'banded, one at least carrying a big purse of no less than $100.00. Others will be worth cash . in amounts varying from $5.00 to $50.00 Magpies will also be banded with cash notices in the smaller denominations, Mr. Leonard explained. Crow hunting has become great sport for many hunters, the director direc-tor pointed out. Around the shores of Utah lake, where the greatest concentration of birds is to be found, shooting has been good sport to the experienced gunner. It is necessary to have crow calls decoys and the proper blinds and locations to get the birds in great numbers. Crow hunting, he pointed out, may only be done in accordance with ' the laws of the state. This means simply that trespass signs will have to be heeded, shooting restricted to crows and magpies not pheasants. |