THE TRAINING OF FARMERS 



to localities adjacent to them, or that please 

 a certain set of sportsmen, or that have 

 certain special interests in mind. Now, 

 small game is to a large extent a natural 

 product of farms. All game is a product 

 of the earth. So far as the earth is owned 

 for productive purposes, it is controlled by 

 the farmer. The general result of game- 

 law legislation and agitation is to antag- 

 onize the farmer against the sportsman, 

 whereas their interests ought to be har- 

 monized and unified. There must be funda- 

 mental principles on which such legislation 

 may rest, and these principles would neces- 

 sarily recognize that the farmer has rights 

 as well as the sportsman. Laws so made 

 would put the farmer and the sportsman 

 into sympathy and cause them to work to- 

 gether to the betterment of each. 



The reader can extend this observation 

 to many other forms of legislation. 



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