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Clove Valley Club uses for shooting only 2,000 acres of the 10,000 or 15,000 

 that it owns or controls. It is around the smaller area only that these 

 signs are placed and a single strand of wire surrounds that portion of it 

 which has no other distinguishing boundary mark. 



3. A third method of organizing for pheasant shooting consists 

 in an organization of the land owners in any neighborhood with 

 the burden of rearing birds for shooting distributed among them. 

 The labor and expense of rearing 50 birds is very small indeed, and 

 any rural community adopting this method and planting its birds in 

 covers after the Clove Valley plan would be assured good shooting. 

 Here, too, it would be a good plan to form an association and do 

 the breeding and posting of the land in its name. Any members 

 so situated that they could not help in the rearing of birds should be 

 assessed for their share of the total reared. 



In this plan the expense of a game keeper and, to a large extent, of 

 pen construction, is done away with, the several members doing the work 

 of the game keeper. Where only a few birds are reared it is seldom neces- 

 sary to use any enclosure for them and this cuts out the expensive item of 

 wire poultry netting. In any scheme of pheasant shooting a minimum 

 of 200 acres of land, including forty or fifty acres of swamp, if possible, 

 should be controlled. 



There are few sportsmen's organizations that could not with profit 

 use some modification of the Clove Valley plan. Perhaps the most feasible 

 method for these would be to engage a sufficient number of farmers to 

 rear the birds that would be needed. The privilege of planting and shoot- 

 ing birds thus reared on the farm of their nativity would doubtless be 

 granted, and many an organization that today is more or less moribund 

 could be galvanized into activity if only a few of the members addressed 

 themselves seriously to the matter of securing pheasant shooting along the 

 lines that have been so fully detailed heretofore. Once the sportsmen of 

 the United States awake to the ease and inexpensiveness with which 

 pheasant shooting can be secured, it will, in my opinion, rank second to 

 none in their field activities. 



4. The fourth and last method I have to suggest relates to 

 the individual sportsman resident in village or city who wants a 

 little sport and who, under present conditions, is not able to obtain 

 his wish in very many parts of the country. 



SHOOTING FOR THE AVERAGE SPORTSMAN. Anyone so 



situated should gather about him fifteen or twenty or even more of his 

 fellows, get in touch with the farmers or farmers' wives of the surrounding 

 territory, and fix up an agreement whereby the latter will rear an average 



