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Show IMPRACTICAL AND TOMFOOLERY A dispatch from Salt Lake City has the following statement accredited to Fred W. Chambers, State Fish and Game Commissioner, which if true, goes to show that said commissioner is a very impractical person and not big enough for the job he holds. For wouldn't it be better bet-ter to make it possible for the settlers of the farming regions of Utah to raise potatoes, fruit trees, shade trees, garden truck, etc., for food and comfort than to allow the millions of rabibts to thrive that they may be killed for food for the poor? Here is what Mr. Chambers is said to have said: "Fred W. Chambers, state fish and game commissioner commission-er is indignant over reports from Cedar valley that a' total of, 30,000 rabbits in Cedar valley had been poisoned by workers of the United States biological survey. This, it is stated, has been done at the request of the settlers and stock growers. "The fish and game commissioner believes that this is an economic waste for the reason that heretofore rabbits have not only furnished keen sport Tor hunting parties in rabbit drives, but have kept many poor persons per-sons from starving, the rabbits being hauled here by the wagon load and distributed to indigent families. "It is the belief of Commissioner Chambers that the sportsmen of Salt Lake should unite in a protest to the United States biological survey against the poisoning of the rabbits, no matter how great a pest they may be." |