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Having read your article in the Aug. 10 issue of TIME entitled "Duck .Moratorium?" I consider your magazine the proper medium for a further discussion of this subject if you will so permit...
Canadian sportsmen do not agree with your contributor, Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson,* that the principal reason for the shortage of ducks is the continued drought in the southern part of the three prairie Provinces, as there are large bodies of water in the northern portion of these provinces that annually contribute to the duck supply, sufficient grounds for all the ducks in the world to breed in. Visitors to the northern lakes report more ducks than ever before due to the migration to those parts...
...lack of breeding places that is responsible for the duck shortage but nonenforcement of the law governing shooting on both sides of the boundary. As Canadian shooters only get from one month and a half to two months against from three and one-half to five in the States it is evident more ducks are shot to the south of the line. Also that 6,500,000 licenses are annually issued in the U. S. and that in some States there is open season the year around leads us to question the right of Americans who are clamoring at Ottawa...
...balance by stepping in close instead of backing away when Petrolle came in. Just as in their first fight it had been amazing to see how little defense McLarnin had against Petrolle's right, it was amazing last week to see how seldom Petrolle managed to duck McLarnin's left. McLarnin nearly knocked him out in the sixth round, nearly did it again in the seventh and eighth, hammered Petrolle when he caught him in a corner in the ninth. At the end of the tenth round Petrolic, still savage, landed two hard rights on McLarnin...
...into pillows and mattresses. During the last few months, however, a great revival has been started by the feather-capped Empress Eugenie hats (TIME, Aug. 3). Raw ostrich which recently brought $15 a pound last week fetched $50 to $60. Lesser feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale to Germany could not be arranged on terms similar to those proposed for overproduced U. S. wheat, cotton, copper. To feather-men throughout the world this was cause...