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Iowa Conservation Department News Release, I 
In a lecture delivered in 1932 by C, Wo Hargens, M* Do, of 
Dakota, conservation was the subject. Dr. Hargens, who was 
reminisces on "what used to be" in the early days of huntinl 
were very interesting indeed and a copy of his address is p 
others may know of the methods of hunting in those day. 
Dr. hargen said: "'Before entering into a serious discussio: 
phases of conservation, as we see it, a little personal rem 
establish our claim to being a 'sportsman' may not be out o 
'brought up' on a farm in the Missouri River Valley, 22 mil 
Bluffs and 75 miles south of Sioux City, Iowa, 
"We attended school in Missouri Valley, Iowa, walking one a 
town, along the track of the old Sioux City and Pacific Rai 
the Northwestern Railway. In those days--we now are sixty- 
 
in the RY7Tig ann ral i We conit rlc Ui%   a1onr  the railroad raL--way.
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prairie chickens our family could consume, T 
the height of a telegraph pole, had been kill 
I have seen the hand-car of a section crew th 
cone in of an evening with all the chickens, 
crew required for meat.. I have seen ducks an 
the-year, that they looked like a cloud, and 
literally millions of them, My father bought 
nine, not for the purpose of sport or getting 
to keep the Canada geese from utterly destroy 
the newly sprouted gwain. Many a time have I 
irksome WORK, and the apparent futility of ch 
field to the other. When we wanted reat, we 
and using her as a blind, steered her up to a 
proceeded to mow them down.  ater my brother 
punishment was being compelled to clean the b 
we fed them to the hogs. Wild game was the w 
filled the markets at ridiculously low prices 
for $2.50 a dozen to the Pullman dining cars 
to shooting, there was no limit of season on 
the age of 64, it is a shock to see the decin