GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



to be tolerated in any corner of the world today 

 no more than unrestricted killing of poultry ought 

 to be tolerated if there were no systematic increase 

 provided for none the less, it seems to be the 

 broader and more businesslike point of view to wipe 

 out the whole theory that sport is for sportsmen 

 only, that game is for special classes alone. The 

 truth is, we ought to regard all these great resources 

 of a country as things to be husbanded and in- 

 creased. We ought not to dig out the roots of the 

 trees in grandfather's wood lot, but give others a 

 chance to grow. 



The natural productiveness of the world is as 

 great now as it ever was. Great game will take 

 care of itself now as well as it ever did, and there 

 is still plenty of room. The story of New Zealand 

 is proof of that. On a second-growth basis we 

 can have game all through the United States all 

 over the world just as quickly as we want it and 

 will provide for it on a business basis. And there 

 are few better or bigger businesses in which a nation, 

 a state, a county, or a district could be engaged. 



Not long ago, at a bankers' banquet in Chicago, 

 attended by gentlemen supposed to be of the highest 

 and best type of citizenship, there were offered on 

 the menu, as one item, Jumbo Snowbirds. These, 

 of course, were nothing but quail, which, knowingly, 



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