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preserve has proved to be the men that Me Vicar 

 brought over with him, Adam Scott, Duncan 

 Dunn, Donald Monroe, Neal Clark, and his son, 

 A. G. McVicar, all from Inveraray, Argyleshire, 

 Scotland. These men have greatly advanced the 

 development of private preserves in eastern United 

 States. 



In Canada, the Province of Quebec has adopted 

 a system of leasing crown lands that has resulted 

 in the creation of a number of large shooting and 

 fishing preserves. The provincial law limits to 200 

 square miles the extent of territory that may be 

 held by any one club, and three dollars per square 

 mile per annum is the minimum price charged for 

 shooting privileges. The Megantic Club, which 

 owns or controls 125,000 acres of land partly in 

 Quebec and partly in Maine, is one of the oldest 

 and most representative clubs of this type. 



Charles C. Worthington of New Jersey has for 

 many years maintained one of the largest and most 

 successful bird refuges in the country and has 

 recently offered his 80,000-acre tract to the state of 

 New Jersey to be held by the state as a permanent 

 game refuge. He has been so successful in breeding 

 white-tailed deer that at one time he reported a 

 surplus of about 1,000 head. 



Another notable instance of bird protection and 

 propagation is Mr. Henry Ford's 2,100-acre farm 

 and bird sanctuary near Detroit, Michigan. Mr. 

 Ford has encouraged the "farmers' best friends" to 



