The terms of the game commissioners should be not less than four
  years.

Like so many other states, Connecticut has recklessly wasted her wild-life inheritance.  During the fifteen years preceding the year 1898, the bird life of that state had decreased 75 per cent.  On March 6, 1912, Senator Geo. P. McLean, of Connecticut stated at the hearing held by his Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game this fact:  “We have more cover than there was thirty or forty years ago, more brush probably, but there is not one partridge [ruffed grouse] today where there were twenty ten years ago!”

First of all, Connecticut needs a ten-year close season law to save her remnant of shore birds before it is completely annihilated.  Then she needs a Bayne law, and needs it badly.  Under such a law, and the tagging system that it provides, the state game wardens would have so strong a grip on the situation that the present unlawful sale of game would be completely stopped.  Half-way measures in preventing the sale of game will not answer.  Already Connecticut has wasted thousands of dollars in fruitless efforts to restock her desolated woodlands and farms with quail, and to introduce the Hungarian partridge; but even yet she will not protect her own native species!

Men of Connecticut, save the last remnants of your native game birds before they are all utterly exterminated within your borders!  Don’t ask the killers of game what they will agree to, but make the laws what you know they should be!  If you want a gameless state, let the destruction go on as it now is going, with 16,000 licensed gunners in the field each year, and you will surely have it, right soon.

DELAWARE: 

  Stop all spring shooting, at once; stop killing shore birds for ten
  years, and protect swans indefinitely.

  Enact bag-limit laws, in very small figures.

  Stop the sale of all native wild game, regardless of its use, by
  enacting a Bayne law.

  Enact a resident license law, and provide for a force of paid game
  wardens.

  Stop the use of machine shot-guns in killing your birds.

The state of Delaware is nearly twenty years behind the times.  Can it be possible that her Governor and her people are really satisfied with that position?  We think not.  I dare say they are afflicted with apathy, and game-hogs.  The latter can easily back up General Apathy to an extent that spells “no game laws.”  In one act, and at one bold stroke, Delaware can step out of her position at the rear of the procession of states, and take a place in the front rank.  Will she do it?  We hope so, for her present status is unworthy of any right-minded, red-blooded state this side of the Philippines.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: 

  The sale of all native wild game, regardless of its source, should
  be stopped immediately, by the enactment of a complete Bayne law.