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Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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se contact withthe wonderful charms of Mother Natures enrapturing enchant-ments ; the primitive instinct of man is called into play; the sordid,envious, jealous world is forgotten as the fisherman plies his art,and his soul becomes attuned to the harmony of his magical envir-onment. Alabama at one time, by reason of the fact that it was coursedby myriads of clear and swift running streams, was an anglerselysium; black bass, bream, pike and, in the northern sections of theState, salmon abounded in abundance, to say nothing of the dozensof other species of excellent fish that readily took the hook. Themodern invention of nets, seines and traps, the use of dynamite inour waters, has been responsible for the appalling decrease in ourfish supply. By the enactment of appropriate legislation for the protectionof fish and the strict enforcement of such laws, by restocking ourwaters with desirable species of fish, the same ideal conditions canbe made to prevail as existed in the days primeval.
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A Shady Nook. Alabama, 1913. 75 m SUCCESS WITH FISH. I KNEW a man who managed once a fine aquarium,And asked for hints on his success, and so he gave me some. I keep my shad in shadow, and my sunfish in the sun. My trigger-fish most carefully I fix upon a gun. The bass in baskets you will find, and carp in carpets rolled, And jellyfish preserved in jars will never, never mold. I keep the skate on ice, of course; my perch on perches perch, And when the day is fine, I send the angel-fish to church. I file away my filefish so I know just where they are; My swordfish in a scabbard lies, and thus escapes a mar. My sea-horse and my barnacle are always in the stable, And signs like these I keep in sight as well as I am able; Please do not stir the sturgeon up, and do not poke the pike:And kindly do not maim the limpet by a careless strike.Pray, do not whale the gentle whale, nor rock the rockfish small,And do not fly the flying-fish; it would not do at all.Please do not muss the mussels up,

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