CHAPTER XVI 
THE SALE OF GAME 
It is universally recognized now by sportsmen and con- 
servationists that the free marketing of wild game is one of 
the greatest factors tending rapidly to exterminate our na- 
tive game resources, and that, with the existence of so many 
other factors that are beyond our control, adversely affect- 
ing the abundance of our game mammals and birds, the sale 
of protected game must be prohibited if the disappearance 
of such game is to be prevented and its continued existence 
secured for use and enjoyment by sportsmen and nature- 
lovers dwelling in our cities and countryside. 
The sale of game for food is only justified in the case of 
game from private or government game farms and pre- 
serves. The utilization of non-agricultural areas for the 
propagation of game is to be strongly commended, with a 
view to augmenting the domestic meat supply. But the 
sale of such surplus and propagated game is an entirely dif- 
ferent matter from the sale of wild game as it now exists in 
our woods. Let us propagate game by all means for those 
who desire it and are unable to obtain it by other means 
than purchase, but do not allow the market hunter to profit 
at the expense of the wild life, as he will if the sale of game 
is permitted. 
The sale of wild game is unnecessary, as those who need 
it for food are able, as a general rule, to obtain it legitimately 
by taking out a hunting license. Most of the game that is 
sold is consumed not by people who need it but by those 
who do not need it and demand it only to gratify their 
jaded appetites. The fight against laws prohibiting the 
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