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mals are valuable. Taxidermists, museums and collectors 

 purchase birds ; the skius of birds, and the eggs. Male 

 and female specimens with the nests and eggs complete, 

 bring very high prices. Poison traps and nets can be 

 used in their destruction. It is clear that the present 

 occupants of all farm lands throughout the province would 

 derive immediate pecuniary benefits from systematic game 

 preservation. There are even now localities where shoot- 

 ing having been prohibited by law temporarily for the 

 purpose of reproduction, where money has been paid for 

 the right to shoot, and where friends have been invited to 

 shoot. These profits and courtesies would become gene- 

 ral with game preservation. 



The farmer is slow to realise the change which has 

 taken place in his condition. The farm was at one time 

 a home from which came a direct supply of food and 

 raiment. Ease, comfort, and hospitality were the rule. 

 Now everything goes to.the market and the farmer is as 

 much in business and a buyer of supplies and neces- 

 saries for home use and consumption as any city man. 

 He requires capital and can no longer afford to waste any 

 of the resources appertaining to his property. There are 

 a few places where the rights connected with game and 

 fish are now of value, and a value which should increase 

 yearly like the growth of a tree without waste of time or 

 expenditure of money. There are localities where with 

 a little care returns would be produced exceeding the 

 profits from agriculture. , 



The farming community are the aristocrats, the owners 

 of the soil, still one of the adjuncts, one of the most inter- 

 esting and valuable rights of the soili has hitherto run to 

 waste or been regarded as common property. 



Farmers could establish sporting clubs, leagues, or as- 

 sociations under rules and regulations as complete and 

 business-like as regulate cheese and other corporation s. 

 City people would gladly assist with time and money to 

 perfect such organizations. 



