112 TO FORM A DUCK CLUB, OR SYNDICATE 



who undertake to breed game. These are many matters 

 which should be carefully considered before a game club 

 is organized. 



The numerous game protective associations, which 

 have been formed to procure game laws and to see that 

 they are executed, might well favor game syndicates and 

 undertake the practical increase of game in order to pro- 

 vide good shooting for their members. The gun clubs, 

 also, which are formed to provide shooting at inanimate 

 targets, easily might become game clubs and provide 

 good field shooting for their members. 



The "appetite for legislation"* in America nowhere is 

 more enormous than it appears to be among those who 

 are organized to restrict the taking of the wild food birds. 

 As a result of this insatiate appetite North America has 

 a thousand more game laws than any country which has 

 game. Many ridiculous crimes have been created which 

 do not rest on any legal principles, and the number of 

 new laws and new crimes which annually are enacted and 

 created is positively appalling. 



It will be found quite as easy for the trap shooters to 

 have good duck shooting as it is for them to have good 

 shooting at clay targets. The members of the protective 

 associations will find it easier to secure good bird shoot- 

 ing than it is to procure new game laws, and when the 

 value of the meat secured is taken into consideration 

 good sport appears to be within the means of anyone who 

 is willing to do something practical. 



The trouble in America heretofore has been that there 

 has been no knowledge of the subject. The "more game" 



*The Hon. Woodrow Wilson is reported to have coined this happy 

 phrase. 



