REMEDIAL 159 



voting their energies to the substitution of foreign spe- 

 cies, but without good results. It seems evident that 

 comparatively tame birds cannot be expected to survive 

 in places where the wilder birds, which are better suited 

 to their environment, have perished. 



Admitting that the laws which shorten the season 

 limit the bag and prohibit the sale of game do some 

 good, since they delay the extirpation of our indigenous 

 wild food birds, we must also admit that the laws do 

 much harm since they practically prevent the profitable 

 increase of game by breeders. No one can be expected 

 to rear game so long as he is only permitted to take three 

 of .his birds in a season and so long as he cannot safely 

 transport them or dispose of them. 



The game laws appear to be especially inimical to the 

 farmers, since in many States they cannot either rent 

 their shooting to advantage nor sell any game which may 

 be produced on the farm. Since the farmers have the 

 right to exclude trespassers and are enforcing this right 

 in many places, it would seem desirable for sportsmen 

 as well as farmers to have the laws amended so as to 

 make it profitable to rear game on the posted farms. 

 Those willing to deal fairly with the farmers undoubtedly 

 can obtain permission to breed game on the farms and 

 when they do a large number of sportsmen will shoot on 

 places which are now closed to all shooting, and the 

 shooting on free territory will be benefitted. 



A breeders' law should be enacted in every State to 

 encourage the profitable breeding of game. It should 

 define the breeders, and they should secure a license from 

 the State game department permitting them to own the 

 game reared and to shoot it without restrictions during 



