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plies much nutritious food; also it supports a great trade in 

 guns, ammunition, boats, dogs, tools, clothing and other sport- 

 ing goods. It furnishes employment to guides, dog breakers, 

 gamekeepers, boatmen and professional hunters, and helps to 

 maintain many country hostelries and seaside hotels. Many 

 farmers receive money enough for the shooting privileges on 

 their farms to more than pay their taxes. In England and 

 Scotland, where there are many game farms and game preserves, 

 the shooting privileges are valuable and the revenue from them 

 is considerable. All told, many thousands of families derive 

 part or all of their support from occupations connected with 

 catering to the sportsman. The physical benefit which harassed 

 business men derive from field sports is considerable, and un- 

 doubtedly many a useful life has been prolonged thereby. 



Value of Birds in Domestication. 



The domestication of birds has been of inestimable value to 

 mankind from remote antiquity, and no doubt grew from the 

 desire of the primitive agriculturist to have constantly at hand 

 a delicate nourishing food supply. No other animals are capable 

 of furnishing man with a similarly valuable supply of both meat 

 and eggs. Thus far, excepting the ostrich, only such species 

 have been domesticated as belong to those families which when 

 wild are known as game birds and wild-fowl, and when domesti- 

 cated, as poultry. These include chickens, turkeys, guinea 

 fowls, peacocks, pigeons and doves, ducks, geese and swans. 

 The immense value of these birds to mankind within historic 

 times cannot be estimated. In the United States alone the 

 annual worth of poultry products in 1907 had reached nearly 

 $300,000,000, and they have more than trebled in value since 

 that time. Mr. Alton E. Briggs of the Boston Produce Ex- 

 change quotes Mr. Marshall of the United States Bureau of 

 Markets to the effect that in 1918 the fowls of the United 

 States produced for market 2,500,000,000 dozens of eggs, and 

 he asserts that these market eggs alone were easily worth over 

 $1,000,000,000, to say nothing of the eggs used by the farmers 

 themselves, or the vast quantity of valuable poultry produced 

 and marketed. The worth of poultry products consumed annu- 



