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ficial propagation and scientific game preserving the sale of 

 such species as can be reared in captivity or produced in 

 large numbers on game preserves is permitted under restric- 

 tions imposed by the Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. 

 Unless our farmers undertake the rearing of game, we shall 

 soon have little game in our markets except such as is im- 

 ported from foreign countries. The demand for game will 

 continue, and it remains for our people to decide whether 

 they will produce it here or send thousands of dollars abroad 

 for it. Our country is so large that it is not probable that 

 the greater part of it ever will be occupied by game pre- 

 serves, as is the case in some European regions; therefore, 

 the overflow from preserves will still afford shooting for the 

 people in the country surrounding them. It is undoubtedly 

 true that the rich have advantages over the poor under this 

 system, as in many other respects, and they always will 

 have certain advantages under any system; but it is also 

 true that the farmer is in a position to derive some benefits 

 from the expenditure of the rich man's money in support of 

 a system of game preserving which, while it interferes to a 

 certain extent with free shooting, provides an abundance of 

 game in regions where without it and under the old system 

 there would be no game at all. 



The above is not written for .the purpose of advocating any 

 change in our system of game laws or to approve the Euro- 

 pean system of game preserving, but merely to point out the 

 logical tendency of a movement which already has gained a 

 strong foothold in this country, and to show the farmers the 

 benefits that they may derive from the inevitable extension 

 of this movement. 



The Artificial Propagation of Game. 

 The rearing of native upland game birds in confinement is 

 still a subject of experiment, and never has been made a 

 financial success; but enough has been accomplished to prove 

 that it is possible to rear the ruffed grouse, the pinnated 

 grouse and the bob-white in domestication. Mallard ducks, 

 black ducks, wood ducks, teal, Canada geese and a few other 

 species have been reared successfully. When such birds as 



