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their town for outside parties who for the sake of the birds 

 would be glad to come and pay well for shooting privileges. 

 In many sections the city boarder has become the farmer's 

 best source of revenue. If he will protect his grouse and 

 quail, he may sell them in the brush for more than he could 

 realize by killing them himself and putting them in market, 

 and at the same time extend his boarding season well into 

 autumn. A city sportsman, whose time has a value, is glad 

 to pay for a certainty of finding game. Although game is held 

 to be the property of the State rather than of the individual 

 owning the land that supports it, he may still be the sole bene- 

 ficiary if he will. He must obey the statutes, even on his own 

 land, but he can profit in due season by his own restraint, for 

 no one else can trespass on his premises if he forbids it. 



The plan of establishing preserves or sanctuaries for game 

 has been extensively accepted by several States, and also by 

 the federal government. For example, Pennsylvania has set 

 aside a portion of the State lands for a game refuge. It is 

 bounded by an encircling wire designed to show its limits to 

 those approaching it without restraining the game in the least. 

 Within this boundary no hunting is allowed. Since this 

 refuge was established, the amount of game on and in the 

 vicinity of it is said to have considerably increased. In Min- 

 nesota, Colorado, Wyoming and several other States there are 

 similar preserves. National parks, as the Yellowstone in 

 Wyoming, the Glacier in Montana, and the Yosemite in Cali- 

 fornia, national game preserves and monuments, as the Wichita 

 Game Preserve and the Colorado National Monument, and a 

 large number of national naval, military and bird reservations, 

 aggregating millions of acres, have been designated as sanc- 

 tuaries where game of all kinds shall not be molested. These 

 places of refuge, preserved and kept inviolate by an enlight- 

 ened public sentiment, will serve the double purpose of pre- 

 venting the extinction of species and of acting as a source of 

 supply to the surrounding regions. 



