renewed health and strength to wrestle with the toils and 

 troubles of his daily life." 



The food value of our game birds becomes more and more 

 important as the prices of beef and mutton continue to rise, 

 as it seems they must, as population increases. The restora- 

 tion of field sports and the propagation and practical protection 

 of our game birds have become of great economic importance. 

 I am pleased to observe that the tendency of our legislation is 

 in the direction of encouraging the profitable production of 

 game. I firmly believe, with the aid of intelligent State Game 

 Officers, the sportsmen and game farmers of America can make 

 the game birds more plentiful than they ever were, using only 

 a small portion of the lands suitable for game which long have 

 been posted against all shooting. As we shall observe, the 

 natural enemies of game and the dogs and cats, and illegal 

 gunners must be controlled on some of the breeding grounds if 

 field sports are to be perpetuated in America. Since it is 

 absolutely necessary that our game be properly preserved and 

 multiplied on some of the farms with the farmer's consent, I 

 am in favor of it. There is no danger of game preserving 

 being overdone. The country is too big. We should remem- 

 ber, also, that for the most part it must be done on the farms 

 where shooting already is prohibited and that such industry 

 can harm no one. 



The area of the public forests and parks in America is said to 

 be larger than the area of Germany. The area of our public 

 waters and marshes, where sport is free to all comers, is many 

 times as big as such areas are in the older countries, where 

 the market gunners are permitted to shoot. Our prejudice 

 against the producers of game has disappeared rapidly and now 

 that we know our game must become extinct if any shooting 

 be permitted and no one looks after its increase, I predict that 

 all prejudice against the producers soon will vanish just as the 

 prejudice against many modern inventions has vanished when 

 it was ascertained to be founded upon an ignorance of the good 

 results soon to follow. In the states where game breeding has 

 been encouraged by legislation there is no longer any objection 

 to such industry. A broiled grouse, properly served, may be 

 made to convert an enemy of sport, and an abundance of game 



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