WEALTH ON WINGS 



lessen the supply which might be called lent to us 

 by the Northern breeding grounds of the American 

 wildfowl. 



At no time in the history of our country, even 

 ' before our own better breeding grounds were wiped 

 out, did we ever have many wildfowl which hatched 

 in our country and afterward passed north to Can- 

 ada. Young wildfowl hatched in the Dakotas or 

 Minnesota went south, but came back the following 

 spring to their own habitat. The Weeks-McLean 

 Law is the first American game law that has ever 

 given Canada a square deal. Only the narrowest 

 of selfishness can fail to see that in giving Canada 

 this square deal we help not only Canada but both 

 Canada and ourselves, since we are simply giving up 

 our old foolish doctrine that you can continually 

 reap and never sow. The great sowing grounds to- 

 day lie in Canada. 



Before the passage of this national measure we 

 had been doing the best we knew how to save some 

 of our migratory birds, whether by state or national 

 laws. We have established within the last few 

 years forty-six national bird refuges. From time 

 to time in the past, large private estates have been 

 made game refuges or shooting preserves; but you 

 can measure within the span of the past few years 

 the first American movement toward a private game 



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