Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... subject-matter of the Alabama Bird Day Book is educational and elevating. Our little men and women are taught to cherish birds not only because of the inspiring strains of their beautiful music which pervades the woodlands and thrills the soul with loftier ideals and more exalted aspirations, but for the reason that each bird is a toiler for the people from day to day, without remuneration, and that without birds to check the on-slaught of insects upon the vegetable kingdom, fair, beautiful Alabama would soon be precipitated from peace, happiness and prosperity into the throes of abject woe, desolation and despair. HUNTERS' LICENSES. The Department of Game and Fish derives its revenue, for the most part, from the sale of hunters' licenses. The burden of maintaining this Department falls almost exclusively upon the sportsmen and these gladly contribute toward the support of a system that in reality and not in name, merely, protects the wild life of the State. The farming class, those who reside in the rural districts, are not called upon to pay a hunters' license fee unless they hunt outside the limits of their voting precinct, which is rarely the case. The hunters residing in towns and cities, who own no land, who do not furnish the hunting domain over which game is pursued, who do not supply the provender for the subsistence of game, must, in the very nature of things, secure a hunters' license before they can legally participate in the sport they enjoy. This Department has made every effort possible to convict persons for hunting without licenses. This is done not only for the purpose of upholding the law but as a matter of fairness and justice to the real conservationalists of the State, who when they go afield are always duly equipped with hunters' lic...
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