/// Su?rny Saskatchewan 

 c Ranch Owners Were Converted 



OUT in the great Northwest, where man's success 

 is largely a matter of conquering the opposing 

 forces of nature, where hardships are many, shot- 

 guns always in fashion, and moving-picture thrill- 

 ers a part of everyday life, lives George L. L. de 

 St. Remy, ranchman, of Saskatchewan, Canada. 

 Mr. St. Remy's home is at High Point, twenty- 

 five miles from any town, three miles from a post 

 office, fifteen miles from a store and six miles from 

 a school or meeting-house! His work for Bird 

 Sanctuaries has been red-blooded and strenuous — a 

 real man's job. In a country where wild-game 

 hunting is the order of the day, he secured 52,425 

 acres of Sanctuary land. His own letter best tells 

 the story : 



During my campaign I traveled many hundreds 

 of miles and addressed many gatherings of farmers 

 while they ate their meals in restaurants and hotels. 

 I examined the soil in many places, and where the 

 land was a heavy clay, I found that the cutworm and 

 wireworm caused enormous loss in a wet, late spring 

 by attacking the germinating seeds. If the farmer 

 had to sow his crop twice on this account, he was 

 pretty sure to sign up for a Sanctuary'when the facts 

 were pointed out to him. 



Some signers had bitter experience with the Hes- 

 sian fly, and were delighted to know that the Green 



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