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GAME CLUBS, PARKS, AND PRESERVES. 



THERE are now in the United States many pri- 

 vate parks and game preserves where game 

 birds are as carefully propagated and protected by 

 individuals as they are on the preserves in England- 

 There are also hundreds (I am almost prepared to say 

 thousands) of clubs or associations formed to own and 

 control the shooting over vast areas of both marsh and 

 upland. 



All of the private parks and most of the clubs are 

 of very recent date. In Forester's day, as I have ob- 

 served, there was none, and there is nothing about 

 them in any of our books on field-sports. 



Private parks or preserves owned by individuals are 

 comparatively few in number in the United States, but 

 as wealth increases there will be more. The manage- 

 ment of the private park is similar to that in England. 

 Game-keepers are employed to protect the game from 

 poachers, to destroy its natural enemies, and to feed it 

 and care for it at all seasons. There are hatcheries 

 for the imported birds, the pheasants, where many 

 birds are propagated each season, as described in the 

 chapter on these birds. 



Many of the private parks are miles in extent, and 

 contain large game as well as small. Mr. Whitney's 



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