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Show January 13, 1944 -- BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER- - Game Department Will Oppose Doe Slaughter JAY TELLS HIS TROUBLES TO KEDDY FOX vv JAY could think of noth-W:.- .: tprrible frieht be V tad at Farmer Brown's bill through He had thrust his '"Stack for a ew grain3 of corn "something had -- etaed hi. bill didn't have bung on. Sammy bit of doubt that it was a wme kind set by Farmer SSwn's Boy. He flew down to the rTen Forest to think it over and some way to get even with As he sat Brown's Boy jner himself along L muttering to For a wonder Sr.e Reddy Fox. before Sammy saw Sammy jteddy S M ia him. Reddy grinned. "Sammy got something on his What's the mattyou had the headache and Sammy! "Hello mind," Then he said aloud: SoueM Reddy. er You look as if ,lomachache and the aches." i few other "Matter enough, Reddy Foxl Matt- snapped er enough!" Sammy. $ (The following b reprinted from the Deseret New of December 16, 1943, written by dim McKinnev) In view oof the great amount of criticism of the deer hunting program in Utah as it relates to hornless deer, it is time that a few statistics be brought to the attention of sportsmen and others interested in conservation of the state's game herds. All of this criticism has been directed heretofore at the State Fish and Game Department which is headed by Director Ross Leonard and Al Handle, big game director. It is not maintained here that their policies should not be criticised, but after a perusal of the record, which we shall set forth, we believe that a lot of this criticism is directed at the wrong people, and the wrong agency. So many sportsmen and others seem unable to grasp the fact that determination of the deer to kill in Utah is not in the hands of the fish and game department, but is adopted each year by the State Board of Big Game Control after receiving recommendations from the fish and game department and the U. S. Forest Service. The Membership Provisioons of law definitely establish membership on this board one member from the fish and game department and one representing sportsmen. Another member represents the Forest Service while the remaining two are chosen from the Utah State Cattle and Horse Growers Association and the Utah State Woolgrowers Association. (Association members themselves choose these men, not any state or federal agency.) These then, are the men who determine the deer kill they fish and game recommendations and those of the Forest Service and, after hearing the opin re-rei- ve of others at their acnual ee- at the Capitol, say you caa km 26,375 does during the 1943 season. Now, if we can plagiarize a phrase Let's look at the record and compare a few figures. Recommendations for the 1943 kill submitted by the fish and game department which, incidentally, had the approval of all local and state wildlife federations, totaled 13.SS0 does for the season, 8,130 of these being on the 10 districts in the Fish Lake Forest. Figures Compared Compare these figures with recommendations of the Forest Service which requested permits for the killing of 28,000 hornless deer in the state, 19,000 of which were on the Fish Lake Forest, and with the kill adopted by the board of big game control which for the state was 26,375 only 1,825 under Forest Service recommendations but nearly twice fish and game figures. In addition, the Forest Service suggestion for 2,500 permits for deer of either sex was adopted by the board. Now, to carry on our thesis on who adopts the doe kill, let's continue. After a public open hearing ion &ioo Page Seven the board goes into regular session and adopts the kill. It is perfectly obvious that the fish and game representative will favor his department's recommendations and for the representative of the sports men who favor the fish and game program, we must assume that he also favors that program. Well, then, that leaves three men who decide the issue the Forest Service, the cattlemen and the Bhetpmen. The M.tseason deer hunts. Sir. Leonard said, were not designed to supplement the regular season kill recommended by the forest service, but were based on fish and game recommendations and were designed to get rid of deer In those particular localities where the aninuils have made a yearly habit of returning and inflicting a large amount of damage on private propci ty. 150,000 Total Mr. Leonard said the state's deer herd now is estimated at 150,000, with a 25 per cent increase each year. If the herd is maintained at this level and only the increase is taken each year, that will mean an annual kill of 37,500 deer. The definitely known kill in 1942 was 63,309 more than killed in any three states surrounding Utah. The director said the department believes deer herds now are near normal, with the exception of one or two congested areas and will oppose further doe hunts until in-creases make such hunts jitces-sar- he While tipping a glass of soda pop the other day we struck up a conversation with an Air Corps Sergeant who hails from away up there in Vermont. Naturally the conversation turned to hunting and he, of course, said his state had the best deer hunting in the nation. I didn't argue with him for morale' sake, but I did ask him if they killed does. He said, "No." "Never?" said L "No," be replied, we let Uiem die of old age." Just as an afterthought who ever hoard of cattle or sheep over grazing the range, 3 Mineral Mixture It is most important that hogs receive a good mineral mixture while they are "hogging down" soybean and peanut fields. Where no bone meal is available, use 10 pound3 of ground limestone and 5 pounds of salt. just that morning. "It was a trap," said Sammy. was some kind of a trap set Farmer Brown's Boy. Just as ae couldn't spare a few grains "It by if of 1 mm trap," said Sammy. "It trap set by "It was a I kind of a Firmer Brown's Boy!" was some I I corn when he has got so muph! I I'd like to to peck his eyes out! 1 That's what I'd like to do!" J I that because it was he could really mean it. Reddy knew it and grinned, for he also knew that Sammy didn't dare go near enough to Farmer Brown's Boy to more than scream at him. All the time he had been listening Reddy had sat with his head cocked on one side, which Is way he has when he's thinking. In- de he was laughing, for Reddy knows a lot about traps and about Farmer Brown's Boy and he didn't believe that Farmer Brown's Boy ever would set a in such a trap queer place as a crack in the wall of Sammy said j the most dreadful thing ! think of, but he didn't I i j 1 j I I a j ; I s ! i ' I comcrib. "That was a terrible experience, Jay, and I don't wonder that m were frightened. Are you go--I g up there tomorrow morning?" "What?" screamed Sammy. "Go- H up there again? What do you take me for? I guess I don't need but one lesson of that kind. There's fall to eat in the Green Forest a on the Green Meadows without '"nmng any such risk as that. No, you won't catch me around warmer Brown's corncrib again very not if my name is Sammy JJjj, w5se" re-is always "It gravely. we to keep out of And danger." jnh tha Reddy trotted on up the Little Path, and inside his red f ad were busy thoughts. Reddy M made up his mind that there SJJSmTeth,Ing very Jueer abut 3?KS friht and he meant SS wuahoutit- He would be on Bi3 ; ; ' 4f: Go vou iiow wSiat wise-ver- v Reddy kS - 016 St ml j :5V:- Sammy first PeeP of daX see what was Jr.SLTi0 barouniJ Farmer Brown's the ginS coro- - ifi? iS da? lonS Sammy Jay flew Jfrtftrough the Green Forest tell- who would listen how KmBT's By Sited a,te that had tried to afternoon he Id 0rchard and told RS alLoveragain to Chatterer, t,; Kr. S vuaucici as smile until after 1 ,eU- Then he threw him- el! and rolled over o?erTnf;OUn la"ghed until his sides achei V4 SamL80."!1? - He laid: "One day last month over 1600 planes were in the air going from the United States overseas to some war theater." Of course, that was just one particular day, and a big one. But even so, that's good. In fact, that's swell! Then Gen. Arnold went on: He told how the Army Air Force and the RAF saved our men at Salerno. And how, in doing it, we had to scrape the bottom of the barrel. How we had to use every plane m North Africa how we had to gather planes from every training center, depot and modification center to do the trick. He said the Italian invasion "would have been easier with more planes and could not have been done with less." He talked about the American raids on Germany. On one, 24 big Fortresses didn't come home. On another, 35. On another, 27. On another, 21. And since he talked, 60 bombers and their gallant crew3 went down in a single raid. No one can attempt to evaluate their loss in dollars or the loss to the enemy in destruction of war materials needed by him to carry on the war. But planes cost dollars to produce millions of dollars. Then he pointed again to the obvious fact that the Italian fight "is a small engagement compared to the gigantic expedition which one day, and we hope not too many months hence, will be set against continental Europe." In short, if a fact was ever made crystal-clear- , Gen. Arnold made this one: What we're doing now is good BUT STTT.T, NOT NEARLY ENOUGH! And that goes for our building, for our fighting and for the War Bond buying that makes the building and fighting possible. Coming soon is a day when, with one mighty effort, we're going to, smash into Hitler's Europe and bury Germany under an overwhelming mass of men, equipment and all the materials that money can buy. And to do it we've got to boost our War Bond buying. We've got to buy more Bonds and more Bonds and more Bends right up to the final minute when the Nazi and Jap fiag3 go down into the dust for good! said Reddy Fox thought-a&e- d ln by batterer he Vl!m af bJehind the ,ur.ed coated old stone busybody cornm Khm? about that trap in ffC"b; tomorrow certay will be morning." tows 1 Arnold lifted us right day, Gen. The other of our seats cheering. iS! D BUY A POSTCARD IHieep On tadkimig The Attack Wwh an, I d0 tt , fall? 10 look to the Hjet a wonderful view. yoVu DMember Dome Work , y. felt that Then, because had to tell someone, he told Reddy an about his terrible fright he ; Fourth War Loan Drive Starts January 18th ? |