MiSSISSiPPI ASSOCIATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE 
 
 
ORGANIZED 1927 
 
 
INCORPORATED 1928 
 
 
CHARTER MEMBERSHIP 286. 
 
 
The Association Wants Mississippi to Have: 
     (1)  More sport for the sportsmen. 
     (2)  More furs for the trapper. 
     (3)  More fish in the streams. 
     (4)  More beneficial hawks and owls to eat 
          field rats and field mice. 
     (5)  More song birds in town and country. 
     (6)  More holly, wild crabapples, dogwood 
          and azalia to beautify roadsides and 
          woodland. 
   (7) More boys and girls, 
 
 
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(9)  Public hunting grounds     vation." 111 
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    hunting for hunters, 
      yet also increase the supply of game. 
(10)  A State Department of Conservation 
      to enforce the game laws, to investi- 
      gate the economic status of our native 
      fauna and flora, to establish and care 
      for sanctuaries and shooting grounds 
      and to educate the people in conser- 
      vation, all support from    hunting 
      licenses. 
 
 
Some of the Things Done During the First Year 
  of The Association: 
     1. Secured the active cooperation of the 
        State Plant Board. 
        The State Department of Education. 
        The State Teachers Association. 
        Sportsmen Clubs in different parts of 
        of the state. 
        Federation of Womans Clubs. 
        American Legion, Mississippi Division. 
                      Daughters of the Ameri- 
 
 
                       can R~evolution. 
ie only state         Mississippi Parent-Teach- 
ich does not          ers Association. 
  state wild          Fair Associations. 
department.            Federal Fish Hatchery, 
pi Associa-           Tupelo, Miss. 
servation of          Y. W. C. A. and Girl Re- 
  only state          serves. 
ncerned ex-        2. Visited 20 county and 
conservation          state fairs with exhibits 
ilization of          and literature. 
rces in the        3. Gave illustrated lectures 
Pi.                   to 20,000 school children, 
cans conser-          conducted   20    nature 
sippi is not          study tours. 
e dollar for       4. Aided in making a state 
vation edu-           wide distribution of fish 
                     rescued from overflowed 
 
 
                 area in the summer 1927. 
5. Visited 15 boards of supervisors in in- 
    terest of better wild life conservation. 
6. Answered many letters of inquiry from 
    sportsmen, teachers and students and 
    furnished literature when possible. 
7. Sponsored a piece of legislation which 
    sought to provide a state wild life con- 
    servaticn department at the last ses- 
    sion of the legislature. 
 
 
  As one means toward overcoming that public 
inertia which recognizes the need for con- 
servation but allows our wild life resources to 
continue to slip away, the association offers 
three competitions: 
  1. To the Sportsman Club, Womans Club, D. 
      A. R. Chapter, Civic Association or other 
      organization in Mississippi that during the 
      year 1928-29 accomplishes the most out- 
      standing piece of wild life conservation 
      work, a gift will be made of the value of 
      $50.00. At the option of the winning or- 
      ganization this may take the form of 
      nursery grown grafted holly trees, or of 
         nursry ownseedling mgolias, or gar- 
      land era applesr or rega ily bulbs, or a 
      bird bath, suitably inscribed; or young 
      game fish for stocking ponds or streams. 
  2. T- the Mississippi school boy or girl who 
      designs the best emblem expressive of the 
      activities or aims of the association and 
      suitable for reproduction on the associa- 
      tion letterheads and literature, a reward 
      of $25.00 in gold will be given. This will 
      be conducted through the cooperation of 
      the State Teachers Association. 
  3. To the member of the association who 
      coins the best slogan for the use of the 
      association, a living Christmas tree, of a 
      variety suited for growing in that park, 
      sqhobl yard or church lawn in which the 
      winner wishes to plant it. The executive 
      committee will act as final judges of these 
      three contests. 
 
 
Address The Mississippi Association for the Conservation of Wild Life. Mrs.
F. Belk Smith, 
                         Secretary, LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI 
 
 
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    MEMBERSHIP DETAILS 
 
    All persons in sympathy with 
the objectives of the association 
are eligible to membership, and 
to share in the duty and privilege 
of preserving for our own use, 
and for that of future genera- 
tions the wild life resources of 
the state. 
   Active members pay $1.00 in 
advance for the whole or part of 
the fiscal year-August through 
July. Supporting members, $5.00; 
Research members, $10.00, and 
Sustaining members $25.00 an- 
nually.  Life membership (no 
other dues) $100.00.   Patron 
membership, $1,000.00. 
 
 
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