LET US GO AFIELD 



and Dixon's Line north to the Arctic Ocean Wood 

 ducks and most of the marsh docks formerly bred 

 in large numbers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. Few 

 breed there now. Wild geese formerly bred in Iowa. 

 Perhaps none has been known to do so in any recent 

 year. Minnesota furnished large areas of country 

 suitable for nesting grounds, and the Dakotas still 

 larger. A certain number of local birds, as they are 

 known, are reared there every year even yet; but 

 only a fraction of the earlier numbers. 



The railroad has been the great enemy of migra- 

 tory fowL Our transcontinental lines did their 

 share; and when the Canadian Pacific Railroad 

 passed westward it opened up to settlement and to 

 shooting enormous areas of the very finest of the 

 breeding grounds of this entire continent much 

 better than those Arctic or sub-Arctic regions which 

 vaguely we have always thought to be the inexhaust- 

 ible source of our wildfowL 



When these railroads went into Saskatchewan 

 and Alberta the Canadian Pacific, the Canadian 

 Northern, the Grand Trunk Pacific, with their trans- 

 continental lines, their north-and-south feeders, and 

 their recent extensions into the late wilderness of 

 the Peace River country we Americans did not 

 repine, but exulted; and we went on with our old 

 theory that in order to get shooting all you had to 



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