eighteen hundred deer killed in one season, more 

 than would have been possible fifteen years before. 

 There is more game in New Brunswick than there 

 was forty years ago. Pennsylvania is something of 

 a bear country yet, and there are very many more 

 bears in Pennsylvania than in Colorado which 

 perhaps you did not know. 



Perhaps you do not know that there are at least 

 as many bears killed east of the Mississippi annually 

 as there are in all the greater country west of it, 

 and more than twice as many deer I You have been 

 thinking of Texas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado 

 the Great West as the place where you were go- 

 ing to make your big-game hunt when you got the 

 price. You can make it with a better prospect of 

 success, albeit in tamer fashion, nearer home. Did 

 you know that? 



Yes, it is true that the future of sport is in what 

 we might call the second-growth stage. Perhaps 

 you have seen grandpa's wood lot, with the old hick- 

 ory stumps standing in it. Here and there are some 

 small trees. Those are the second-growth hickory 

 trees. Our only hope for sport in America, or timber 

 in America, is in this second-growth crop. With in- 

 credible speed and with unspeakable remorselessness 

 we have already reached the second-growth crop 

 of practically all raw resources in America. 



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