34 PROCURING STOCK BIRDS AND EGGS 



swans. More dusky, or black, ducks are reared on this 

 farm than anywhere in the country. Other game farms 

 are located in Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. The 

 Fair-View Farm on Hudson, Highland, N. Y., also ad- 

 vertise wild ducks. In some States some of the ducks 

 can be sold in the market as food. 



Besides the game farmers there are now a number of 

 large game preserves in America, some of which can, at 

 times, supply ducks and eggs. 



The number of game farms and preserves is increas- 

 ing rapidly, notwithstanding the inimical laws which 

 prohibit the sale of game or only permit it during a 

 short open season. The sentiment of the people now 

 is opposed to the arrest of those who are engaged in 

 such industry and in favor of the proposed breeders' 

 law providing that those who properly look after game 

 and increase it shall have the right to sell it alive for 

 propagation or as food in the markets. There can be 

 no doubt that as soon as this law is enacted in all of the 

 States (it has been in some) America, as I have said, 

 will become the biggest game producing country in the 

 world. The game farms rapidly will increase in num- 

 ber. 



The rearing methods employed by the game farmers 

 are similar to those described in the chapters on the 

 rearing and handling of wild ducks. 



Wild fowl have never been regarded as true game 

 within the meaning of the game act in England, and 

 the wild fowlers, or market gunners, always have been 

 permitted to shoot wild ducks for the market on all 

 public waters, saltings, and on many lands about the 

 coasts owned by the Crown. Wild ducks often are 



