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self do the job. Fencing off the heads of gulleys €0 that valuable 

 plants will have a chance. Eliminate overgrazing. If the vegetation 

 is removed to get rid of the boll weevil or other insects, numerous 

 song and insectivorous birds will be eliminated at the same time, and 

 the game will go, too. Earlier ideals of ultra clean farming might 

 well be replaced by a better balanced program according to the best 

 information available at present. 



6. Know your wildlife. Count your quail, turkeys, and deer, and 

 so regulate the take that the seed stock will not be drawn upon. If 

 you are a landowner, join with your neighbors to form a game pre- 

 serve demonstration association in cooperation with the Extension 

 Service at your nearest agricultural and mechanical college. 



7. "Work out a cooperative agreement between farmers and sports- 

 men, such that the interests of both will be more adequately safe- 

 guarded. The farmer wdll have to be equitably reimbursed for his 

 game, the sportsman assured of better hunting. 



8. Keep in touch with your game department, with your agricul- 

 tural and mechanical college, with the United States Fish and Wild- 

 life Service, and practice the best modern methods of game manage- 

 ment. The game wardens, county agents, and teachers of vocational 

 agriculture will help you if you call on them. 



9. Do not forget the fur animals. As rapidly as practicable, work 

 out a plan whereby trapping can be permitted on a basis that will 

 avoid depletion of the stock, but will pay an appreciable return to 

 the landowners as well as the trapper himself. 



10. Wildlife restoration, in the opinion of the most enlightened 

 and advanced wildlife managers, is not so much a matter of expen- 

 sive plantings as of letting Nature grow her own vegetation ; it is less 

 a matter of propagation in captivity, and more a matter of encour- 

 aging maximum natural production of game; it is less a matter of 

 introducing exotics or stocks of game from somewhere else, and more 

 a matter of making conditions favorable for wildlife already on the 

 ground. Restoration is not only possible, but is highly desirable. It 

 should supplement the existing income of the landowner, and pro- 

 mote the utilization of lands not now used to best advantage. It 

 should result in the substantial increase of a resource already esti- 

 mated to be worth more than a billion dollars to the United States 

 each year. It should add to the store of those natural treasures that, 



