saw them in different regions. I feel quite sure that if there 

 had been a Chippewa camp within ten miles of those lakes 

 the moose and deer would not have been so abundant. 



r While I am speaking of large game I should like to call 

 attention to the possibility, and as I believe, to the necessity 

 of encouraging the domestication or semi-domestication of 

 game and fur-bearing animals. It is now a well established 

 principle that if wild game is to be sold on the market, the 

 pot hunters will see to it that the game becomes extinct. It 

 makes no difference how abundant the game is it will be- 

 come extinct. Within the lives of most of us there were 

 flocks of passenger pigeons large enough to darken the sun. 

 Today, as far as my information goes, there is just one pas- 

 senger pigeon left. He is an old bachelor about twenty years 

 old, and lives in the Zoological Garden at Cincinnati. Why 

 have these pigeons, which once existed literally in countless 

 flocks, become extinct? The answer is, they have become 

 exterminated by ruthless, lawless, thoughtless hunting. They 

 were shot, and clubbed and netted, in season and out of sea- 

 son, and shipped to the great consuming markets in carload 

 lots. They were so numerous that the time-worn argument 

 was always applied, "You can never kill them all; there are 

 too many." But they have all been killed. For several years 

 prizes aggregating more than a thousand dollars have been 

 offered to any one who could show, or who could find a nest 

 of passenger pigeons and take some reputed ornithologist to 

 the spot. No one as yet has earned the thousand dollars, 

 and I venture to predict no one will. The birds are totally 

 extinct. 



Although it is an axiom of game protecticn that wild game 

 cannot be sold on the market, it seems ridiculous that in this 

 young country where we still have such abundance of game, 

 and such enormous areas of wild land, it is practically im- 

 possible to buy game, while in such old countries as Germany 

 venison can frequently be bought at least as cheap, if not 

 cheaper than beef. The answer is that in Germany a great 

 deal of game is kept in a state of semi-domestication. 



I believe that the rearing of deer, and especially of elk, 

 under favorable conditions could be made profitable, if per- 



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