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Show FTBuM Did You Know . . .? The owl cannot move its eyes in their sockets but compensates by being able to rotate its head in a large 'arc of 273 degrees? Like other birds, the owl possesses good color vision. . . . The world's largest sheep, the Argali, lands on his horns instead of his feet, when he jumps? . . . The troublesome English "sparrow" "spar-row" is not a sparrow at all? He is a member of the weaver bird family of Europe. . . . "Heifer" is the modern spelling of two Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon words, head-fear, meaning "high ox," as the heifer seems to stand up extraordinarily high on her legs compared to a grown cow. . . . Tiny green plants called algae grow on the fur of the sloth, a South American animal that lives in trees? These plants provide camouflage for the sloth. . . . There are more than 7,000 different kinds of ants? ,. . . Naturalists who want to capture cap-ture a snake uninjured may kill him with tobacco? They pin him down with a forked stick, push up his jaws and stuff tobacco down his throat with a twig. Tossed at the base of a tree as alandmark, he is picked up dead on the return trip. . . . Ducks die from eating bird shot? Spent shot that settles in feeding swamps may be swallowed by the ducks. Lead shot in the crop of a duck will cause its death from lead poisoning. ... In dry climates meat is preserved simply by hanging hang-ing It out to dry? This is the common com-mon method of making jerked venison ven-ison or "jerky." . . . There is a legend that animals kneel to worship wor-ship on Christmas Eve? AAA Education Needed The average citizen must be brought to realize that the management manage-ment of wildlife is no clear simple matter, that we are treating a living resource that is subject to a variety of influences, that only the most careful kind of management manage-ment based on sound research findings can ever hope to provide the answer to our problem. The so-called "one gallus" hunter' and fisherman must be brought to a point where he will voluntarily accept the findings and recommendations rec-ommendations of his wildlife commission as to the management manage-ment of the wildlife resource. This must be done, otherwise what excuse do we have for the existence of wildlife training schools, research units, laboratories, experiment stations, sta-tions, and scores of trained men who have given themselves years of professional pro-fessional training in the wildlife field? This type of acceptance of the wildlife agency by the layman will not come by itself. There must be efficient wildlife administration, continued good research, intelligent intelli-gent dissemination of accurate information, in-formation, long-range educational work, and a co-ordinated, good, public relations program. In speaking of youth, here lies jur very greatest hope in conservation conser-vation education. It was Goethe who said that the destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its youth. To be more specific, "it's young men under five and twenty." AAA Yeah, Why? The United States is fighting Communist Com-munist aggression with men, guns and planes in Korea, but on the other hand it continues to develop its trade with Russia, the birthplace birth-place of Communism. Whenever Communists anywhere, whether they be the armies of North Korea or Red China or saboteurs in the United States, commit acts of aggression, it is an acknowledged fact that they do so under the leadership lead-ership of Russia, and with Russia's full blessing. When the United States continues normal trade relations with Russia, Rus-sia, it is building up that country's dollar reserve so that it can better finance the Communist's disruptive tactics against the free nations of the world. Senator Milton Young has attempted to cut down the flow of dollars to Russia by introducing a bill to prohibit the importation of furs from Russia. He says this nation imports $59 million worth of raw furs per year from that fountainhead of Communism. However, the U.S. tariff commission commis-sion opposes the senator's bill, contending con-tending that the Russian furs do' not compete to any great extent with American furs. We don't think the tariff commission is on sound ground when it makes this claim. While Russian furs may not be made from the same kind of animals ani-mals that are the fur producers for the American market, to American womanhood a fur coat is a fur coat. AAA . Sinking A Leader There is hardly anything more pestiferous to the fly. fisherman than a leader which won't sink when it should. For this aggravation there is always the fundamental answer of rubbing it with bankside mud. To meet the problem in a more convenient, refined way, one may take along a bit of some abrasive soap, such as Lava, for instance, and rub the leader with this. It will do the job. |