GAME CLUBS, PARKS AND PRESERVES 33 



shooting so long as the game showed an increase, as it 

 surely would under proper regulations. Men who 

 contribute to support zoological gardens and museums 

 of natural history would, 1 beUeve, contribute to the 

 game preserves if assured that they would save the 

 animals from extinction. 



The rules of the big-game clubs usually provide for 

 a short open season and limit the killing of the game 

 by each member to a small number of males per an- 

 num. At the Blooming Grove Park Club, in Penn- 

 sylvania, the killing is limited to bucks, and a club- 

 rule provides that a member killing or wounding more 

 than one buck in the breeding-park, in any one season, 

 or a doe or fawn, shall pay into the treasury of the 

 club $100. 



At this club other rules provide that deer may be 

 killed only from and including the first day of October 

 to and including December 31st. 



This, however, does not apply to the breeding-park, 

 where stalking or still-hunting bucks is allowed, to 

 members only, from September ist to November 30th 

 inclusive. This rule provides that rifles only shall 

 be used, and that no device of any nature shall be em- 

 ployed to drive or chase the deer. 



This club has a number of lakes and streams which 

 are well stocked with game-fish and has bird-shooting 

 besides, including the imported pheasants which arc 

 propagated at a hatchery on the club grounds. 



I have referred to the organization of the game-clubs 

 in the earlier volume and the general rules governing 

 members and invited guests, where guests are per- 

 mitted, as they are at nearly all shooting-clubs, under 



