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oJ9K%0 PHEASANT FARMING PRO 
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by the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington, D. C., whose attitude on the subject is stated as 
follows: 
“The raising of game for profit not only need not 
jeopardize the safety and abundance of our wild game, 
but, under proper state license laws and a system of 
tagging game for shipment or sale, is likely to increase 
the quantity of wild game.” 
The growth of the industry of raising game for the market, as 
cattle and poultry are raised, is manifested in legislation in many 
states during the last few years. A dozen states now have such 
provisions in their laws, and the production and marketing of do- 
mesticated game seems destined to become an industry that will de- 
mand more and more recognition in future legislation. With proper 
means of identification provided, so as to prevent evasion of the laws 
prohibiting traffic in wild game, there would seem to be no reason 
why this industry should not be encouraged in every pos- 
ns sible way. One of the great reasons for non-observance 
State of game laws is the ever-present desire of the general 
public to eat game. Make it possible for the general 
public to purchase game food during a legal season, and the in- 
centive to evade the laws would be minimized. In all game legisla- 
tion the general or non-sportsman public must be reckoned with. 
To ignore this factor invites violation of game and fish laws. 
A few states yet hold it a crime for any one to increase the sup- 
ply of game by breeding the same in captivity. Dillon Wallace, in 
Outing Magazine, says: 
‘““Ag a result of this method of protection our game 
is surely and rapidly diminishing in numbers, and the 
complete extinction of some species seems not far 
distant, unless some new tack is taken, and it would 
seem that the most reasonable solution of the problem 
would be to turn the animals to profit through domes- 
tication, and at the same time by this method insure 
perpetuation of rapidly disappearing species. 
“We are suffering from conservatism gone to seed. 
Because our native mammals and birds were originally 
discovered in a wild state we have, unconsciously per- 
haps, conceived the notion that they must of neces- 
sity continue in the wild state. Wild they are and 
wild they must remain. To domesticate them would be 
to change the existing order of things, and that would 
be a sacrilege on Nature. We forget that our domestic 
cattle, our sheep, our horses, and our fowls were once 
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