14 la Oame of any Value to the Farmer ? 



Combined propertfes covering a large extent of ground 

 —the various owners being mutually interested in its pro- 

 tection — would become a marked feature in country life. 

 Counttes and the residents of counties would take a 

 pride in their successes in game preservation. But these 

 things will not be done until the law is strengthened. 



In New York State and on the Passic River not far 

 from New York, Jersey City and Newark, the " tramp 

 and trespass habit " has become so great a nuisance that 

 8000 acres of farm land has been leased to the Chatham 

 Fish and Game association of New Jersey, for game and 

 shooting purposes by the farmers, the one consideration 

 being that the association will keep off trespassers, and 

 that 50 square miles could hQ had for game preservation 

 purposes from the farmers thereabouts. 



The tramp and trespass nuisance increases with the 

 growth of cities. Every new immigrant comes out with 

 the idea that game is " common property," and can be 

 shot and hunted anywhere. 



A pamphet " Canada, " issued at Ottawa by authority 

 during the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, page 

 148, has the following : — 



" Game here is common property ; it affords food for the 

 settler, sport for the disciple of St. Hubert, and the hunter 

 and trapper each find pecuniary profit in its pursuit." 



This statement is calculated to injure the older Pro- 

 vinces, and be of doubtful benefit \o the new. 



It is not surprising that tramps and the ignorant be- 

 come abusive when " ordered off, * and that a better class 

 "upon pleasure bent," are indignant at having been de- 

 ceived. 



Sportsmen by urging the necessity for "close season?>" 

 have retarded but not prevented the destruction of game. 



In Canada the whole question of reproduction and pro- 

 tection of game and fish is with the farmers. They can 



