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Agricultural depression throughout Canada and the 

 States is admitted ; magazine,articles and editorials on the 

 subject are of frequent occurrence, and in various ways 

 attention is drawn to " reduced values in farm lands " 

 quite out of proportion to the remedies suggested. Theor- 

 etic remedies are the most depressing of all remedies, 

 something practical, with money in it, is what the farmers 

 want, going hand in hand with agriculture. 



Ciinada is fitted by climate and location to be a great 

 game-producing and game-exporting country ; we have 

 ^ealthy neighbours to the south of us ready to purchase 

 an unlimited quantity at the highest prices. The demand 

 for game is widespread, and large shipments of it are 

 being made from British ports to New York and other 

 American cities. In the United States the hostility ex- 

 isting against " Game Laws " is so deep-rooted, so pre- 

 judiced and so unreflecting, that the best informed 

 Americans admit that " game is doomed " in their 

 countr}'. 



In Canada, instead of taking advantage of our northern 

 location, the destructiveness of our neighbours and the 

 circumstances which would give us the monopoly of a 

 great and profitable trade, by legislating to encourage 

 game preservation as a business, we prohibit " export and 

 sale," leaving with camping-out parties, professional 

 sports, and a few people in the backwoods, the power to 

 continue the extermination of game. 



