harvest a profitable crop of wood products from 

 time to time. He will thus incidentally prevent the 

 burning up of countless nests of quail, partridge and 

 other game, as well as valuable insect eating birds. 

 The burning of wet meadows only in the fall, and 

 not in the spring, will save many more wild fowL 



The safe range of ground feeding birds, such as 

 quail, English and other pheasants and Hungarian 

 partridge is somewhat limited in this state. They 

 may be expected to prosper in the southeastern coun- 

 ties. Farther north occasional severe winters with 

 deep or crusted snow would leave these birds without 

 food. On the other hand, there is no reason why we 

 should not always have an abundance of ruffed 

 grouse, sharp tailed grouse and certain introduced 

 species which, like them, have the life saving habit 

 of "budding" in the winter. This feeding upon the 

 buds of trees and bushes during cold weather is a 

 guarantee against starvation no matter how deep 

 the snowfall or how long it lies. 



Our rivers, lakes and marshes for muskrat and our 

 smaller streams for beaver are capable of almost 

 indefinite development for the production of fur, 

 There is scarcely a stream in the state but what at 

 one time had, and might again have its colonies of 

 'beaver. Beaver are fairly numerous in some three 

 or four counties now, in spite of inadequate protec- 

 tion and consequent heavy poaching. I should like 

 to see them in every county in the state. It is 

 true that they cut down some trees and flood some 

 land, but the trees are mostly poplar, cottonwood 

 and willows of little commercial value. By giving 



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