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The industry of game farming is new in America, but 

 already we have a number of these interesting places, 

 some of which are as large as the more important game 

 farms in England. These can supply several species of 

 wild ducks and their eggs and the Canada, or common 

 wild goose, in good numbers and at fair prices. The 

 number of game farms is increasing rapidly since the 

 industry is profitable. 



One of the largest American game farms in the United 

 States is located at Oak Park, Illinois (near Chicago). 

 Mr. Wallace Evans, the enterprising owner, has given 

 much attention to the rearing of several kinds of wild 

 fowl and can supply thousands of ducks and eggs. 



In the story of his game farm* Mr. Evans said : "In 

 the race for 'more game' America has already distanced 

 England, the land of game farms and preserves. This 

 seems the more remarkable since in England there is 

 far more freedom in the matter of rearing and selling 

 game, as The Amateur Sportsman often has said, than 

 there is in the land of the free." 



Mr. Evans said that he would rear during the year 

 1909 8,000 pheasants, besides wood-duck, mallards and 

 wild geese, mandarins and other water fowl. 



Wenz & Mackensen have a prosperous game farm at 

 Yardley, Pennsylvania, and this firm also can supply 

 thousands of ducks and eggs. Mr. W. A. Lucas repre- 

 sents the Clifton Game and Forest Society, which has 

 a game farm on Long Island where mallard and black 

 ducks are reared and sold alive for propagation. 



The Whealton Wild Water Fowl Farms at Chinco- 

 teague, Virginia, rear thousands of ducks, geese and 



•The Amateur Sportsman, September, 1909, p. 12, 



