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a long open season and to sell all or any part of it to 

 licensed dealers under regulations which should provide 

 for the listing and identification of the game sold. 



Such laws are easily executed in all countries which 

 have game, and the system has been found to work well 

 in Colorado and elsewhere in America where it has been 

 tried. 



The able Game Commissioner of Colorado has well 

 said the sale of game and game fish from the licensed 

 parks^and lakes in Colorado has put the market gunners 

 out of business, and the people are supplied with game 

 for their tables. 



All naturalists, so far as I am aware, and most of the 

 intelligent sportsmen in America who have carefully 

 considered this important question have declared in fa- 

 vor of amendments to the laws permitting the profitable 

 increase of game by breeders. The Bureau of Biological 

 Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture favors 

 such legislation, and it seems probable that the laws soon 

 will be amended so as no longer to prevent the profitable 

 increase of a desirable food. I am firmly of the opinion 

 that in a very few years North America will become the 

 biggest game producing country in the world.* 



*The history of American game laws and their merit and weakness, and 

 the needed changes in the laws are fully discussed in an article which I 

 wrote for The Cyclopedia of Agriculture, Vol. 4. The Macmillan Co., N. T. 



