10 Is Game of any Value to the Farmer / 



There are thousands of acres \y\ng waste in Canada 

 where the Capercaillie would thrive. Old pine forests 

 stripped of the marketable timber are the best localities 

 for them ; lands of little value for any other purpose than 

 cover and shelter for deer and feathered game of the 

 grouse species. This is a valuable example of the ease 

 with which an exterminated bird can be restored. As an 

 addition to our food supply, the introduction of the Cap- 

 ercaillie into Ontario is worthy of consideration. Had 

 w^e a National Park, many valuable birds, the results of 

 tests and experiments, would be introduced and become 

 indigenous. The pheasant is an imported bird and made 

 indigenous throughout Great Britain, adding greatly to 

 the food supply and the wealth of the country. It has 

 been introduced into British Columbia, and now abounds 

 in every portion of the coast there. It has also been in- 

 troduced into some far distant western states. This sub- 

 ject is not without interest in the most prosaic business 

 circles. The manufacture and sale of guns and ammuni- 

 tion, rods and tackle, boats, tents and canoes, and the end- 

 less supplies connected with fishing and shooting, absorb 

 millions of capital, and give employment to thousands of 

 skilled operatives, women and children. Such pursuits 

 thrive as game increases, and struggle for existence with 

 its extermination. From an agricultural point of view, 

 entomologists and botanists report the destruction of 

 crops, trees and fruit, by insects on the increase, and that 

 such insects are characteristically farm insects ; that no 

 new remedies have been discovered for keeping them in 

 check ; a new insect has been discovered in the hay, and 

 that efforts are now being made to discover the insect 

 destroying pine timber. The army worm, the cut woim, 

 caterpillars, borers, weevils, locusts, potato and other 

 beetles, cabbage worms, turnip fly, wheat worms and 

 midges, and many insects, a torture to live stock, all are 

 on tbe increase. 



Insects pass through four stages — the q^, the larva, 



