GAME BIRDS AND LARGER NON-GAME BIRDS 147 
to arrive ‘“‘in clouds” on February 20. Every year since 
they have visited Mr. Miner, not in hundreds but in thou- 
sands. On Good Friday, 1913, it was a very windy day 
and Lake Erie was extremely rough; the geese came to his 
farm in such numbers that they filled a five-acre field. 
For several weeks each year they enjoy his hospitality 
and consume annually several hundred dollars’ worth of 
corn. For years Mr. Miner has borne the cost of feeding 
his wild visitors, and it is impossible to praise too highly 
the spirit that has prompted so great a financial sacrifice on 
the part of a lover of wild life, who can ill afford the ex- 
penditure involved in this unique experiment. To accom- 
modate the increasing number of his visitors Mr. Miner 
made new and enlarged ponds and added to his farm, the 
whole of which was devoted to and specially laid out for 
the protection of the geese, wild ducks,—which also visit 
him in large numbers,—quail, and insectivorous birds. So 
successful was the work that the Ontario government has 
created the Miner farm and adjacent farms a game sanc- 
tuary, which, each year, is visited by thousands of peo- 
ple, particularly in the spring, when the geese are staying 
there. 
One of the most wonderful and inspiring sights I have 
ever seen is the return of the flocks of geese during the early 
- hours of sunrise on an April morning. While the heavens 
are still glowing with the rosy light of the rising sun, the 
geese begin to leave the water of Lake Erie, where they 
have spent the night, and in their characteristic A-shaped 
flocks, they head straight for the sanctuary, where they 
alight and spend the day, fed by the generous hand of their 
protector. Such pleasures cannot be purchased; they are 
the natural sequence to a genuine love of wild life and a 
patient winning of its confidence. 
Mr. Miner was not satisfied with demonstrating the re- 
sponse of the wild geese and ducks to his encouragement 
