This state should at once enact a bag-limit law that will do some good, instead of the statutory farce now on the books. Make it fifteen birds per day of waterfowl, all species combined, and no grouse or quail. There should be five-year close seasons enacted for quail, grouse, plover, woodcock, snipe, and all other shore birds. A law should be enacted prohibiting the use of firearms by unnaturalized aliens, and a $20 license for all naturalized aliens. Provision should be made for a large state game refuge in southern Minnesota. The state should prohibit the use of machine guns in hunting. To-day, direct and reliable advices show that the game situation in Minnesota is far from encouraging. Several species are threatened with extinction at an early date. In northern Minnesota it is reported that much game is surreptitiously trapped and slaughtered. The bob white is reported as threatened with total extinction at an early date; but I think the prairie chicken will be the first bird species to go. Moose will soon be extinct everywhere in Minnesota except in the game preserves. Apparently there is now about one duck in Minnesota for every ten ducks that were there only ten years ago. Now, what is Minnesota going to do about all this? Is she willing through Apathy to become a gameless state? Her people need to arouse themselves _now_, and pass several _strong_ laws. Her bag limit of forty-five birds _per day_ of quail, grouse, woodcock and plover, and _fifty_ per day of the waterbirds, is a joke, and nothing more; but it is no laughing matter. It spells extermination. MISSISSIPPI: The legalized slaughter of robins, cedar birds, grosbeaks and doves should cease immediately, on the basis of economy of resources and a square deal to all the states lying northward of Mississippi. The shooting of all water-fowl should cease on January 1. A reasonable limit should be established on deer. A hunting license law should be passed at once, fixing the fee at $1 and devoting the revenue to the pay of a corps of non-political game wardens, selected on a basis of ability and fitness. The administration of the game laws should be placed in charge of a salaried game commissioner. It is seriously to the discredit of Mississippi that her laws actually classify robins, cedar-birds, grosbeaks and doves as "game," and _make them killable as such from Sept. 1 to March 1!_ I should think that if no economic consideration carried weight in Mississippi, state pride alone would be sufficient to promote a correction of the evil. If we of the North were to slaughter mockingbirds for food, when they come North to visit us, the men of the South would call us greedy barbarians; and they would be quite right. MISSOURI: The Missouri bag limits that permit the killing or possession of fifty birds per day are absurd, and fatally liberal. The utmost should be twenty-five; and even that is too high.