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advocates of federal legislation for 

 protection of | birds during migration 

 have good arguments to advance and 

 the subject is worth consideration. 



Our land owners have the right under 

 Section 7 of the Saskatchewan Game 

 Ordinance to prohibit shooting upon 

 their enclosed or cultivated lands, and 

 they might with advantage exercise 

 their right and themselves protect the 

 game upon their farms from destruction 

 by vermin or vagaVjoiid. 



Reserves. Native birds and other game- 

 should, because of hardiness and suit- 

 ability to the climate, prove more profit- 

 able to raise than tender introduced 

 forms, and a wide market could be found 

 for game after it had served the purpose 

 of furnishing the sportsmen with the 

 pleasure of the chase. The dual purpose 

 wild game may yet prove very profitable 

 by the combination of sporting and 

 market \'alue, and game be available for 

 the tables of the people for years to 



PliOto by II. K. MacMillftn 

 The above cut of a moose, made from a photograph taken on the Riding Mountain Forest Reservei 

 gives some idea of the possibilities of that reserve as a game preserve. 



Lands unsuitable for cultivation in 

 settled communities might with ad- 

 vantage be reserved and stocked with 

 birds from the larger reserves after some 

 planting of trees and shrubs had been 

 done. Wild lands might well be leased 

 to clubs or syndicates that would put a 

 game keeper or keepers on the land to 

 protect and propagate game. The 

 escapes from such game preserves would 

 help stock the surrounding country. 



I see no reason why experiments in 

 the propagation of game should not be 

 conducted by the Government on Forest 



come. Deer farming has been the sub- 

 ject of one bulletin issued by the Wash- 

 ington Government which is well wcirth 

 reading. 



Aside, however, from anything in 

 the way of experimental work the Forest 

 Reserves might be made serve the very 

 good purposes of refuges and breeding 

 grounds for game by the prohibition of 

 the carrying of guns upon the reserves 

 and by having the wolves and other 

 checks to the increase of game destroyed 

 by the forest rangers. The prevention 

 (if fires will prove a great help towards 



