Show SET FOR OPEN i SEASON ALREADY I 00 Sultry sumer is coming quickly toa to toa a close close Da Days s are growing ever I shorter And sportsmen are looking forward orward eagerly to the opening of the hunting season When the trots is isn on n the pumpkin and the corn com is in the shock hock red blooded men will be tramping ramping with zest through field and forest orest after furred or feathered game gamer or r waiting keen keen eyed eyed in the blind for geese reese or duck cuck duck Th Then n a mans man's every inch alert and ALIVE I 1 But Dut even now men who are clear clear- eyed and sand headed clear are ze in practice for the falls fall's greatest and mans man's oldest sport They know that it t is never never closed season for the greatest of game the farmers' farmers chief foes oes vermin and pests They know there here is no thrill that stacks up up against the thrill of a moving moving ing ng target So they are out after rats and red squirrels the rats of the tops treetops after hawks and the grea great t horned owl the goshawk of th the e night after weasels foxes gophers cats bod-cats coyotes an and d skunks POP OFF THE PESTS Popping off oft such pests ought to b be belart e part lart of American farm activities s everywhere Its It's the sportsmans sportsman's s duty duty-a luty a duty that is also a barrel o of sf f fun un Why rats rate annually destroy cro crop p and stored products in America worth wort h Woodchucks and gophers gopher s make no end of trouble in the fields for every game bird shot by hunters hunte rs ten are slaughtered by such enemies s to sport and property Every re red d squirrel left alive means more than the n eggs of game birds destroyed The wild pigeon is now extinct State Game authorities s state that in a very few years on our r otter oher game birds will be almost extinct extinct ex ex- tint unless we e put a short stop to the depredations at pesta f if nine ty-nine out of eves every v iT sixty wild dU ducks ks' ks hatched in n breeding season never reach maturity ma ma- thanks thanks largely to their en- en enemies enemies en that wear fur or feathers AU All seasons are open season to these enemies enemies AND AND FOR THEM |