568 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



will drive out both Bob- whites and Grouse; but there need 

 be little fear of this, for short open seasons each year will 

 prevent any undue increase of any game bird outside of the 

 preserves. The main energy of the game preserver, however, 

 should be directed toward the conservation of native game 

 birds, which, from the sportsmen's point of view, are far 

 superior to those of foreign origin. 



What is called the "more game" movement, the exponent 

 of which in this country is Mr. Dwight W. Huntington, editor 

 of the Amateur Sportsman, has resulted in an increased inter- 

 est in game farms and a large demand for birds for breeding 

 purposes. 



Among the many books on game and gamekeeping, Mr. 

 Huntington's recent work Our Wild Fowl and Waders is par- 

 ticularly timely, as it deals largely with methods of preserving 

 American water-fowl. The United States Department of 

 Agriculture has issued some valuable papers on game preserv- 

 ing and game preserves which should be in the hands of every 

 prospective game breeder.^ 



The Game Preserve Increases Insectivorous Birds. 



The question often is asked by bird protectors, "Why 

 should we take an interest in conserving game birds .f' And 

 the complaint goes on. "We protect them, feed them and 

 care for them, going to considerable trouble and expense, 

 only to see them exterminated by sportsmen and market 

 hunters during the next open season. The sportsmen, the 

 market hunters, the marketmen, the gunmakers and the 

 ammunition makers care nothing for the protection of birds. 

 Their only interest in bird protection is that they may have 

 more birds to shoot." There is a grain of truth here, but, 

 nevertheless, the conservation of game birds is the most impor- 

 tant of all bird protection. As hereinbefore stated, the high- 

 est value of birds to man is their aesthetic and educational 



' The following bulletins bear on the subject: Pheasant Raising in the United States, by Henry 

 Oldys, assistant, Biol. Surv., with a chapter on Diseases of Pheasants, by George Byron Morse, M.D., 

 XT. S. Dept. of Agr., Farmers' Bulletin No. 390; Introduction of the Hungarian Partridge into the 

 United States, by Henry Oldys, from Year Book of Dept. of Agr. for 1909; Private Game Preserves 

 and their Future in the United States, by T. S. Palmer, U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bureau of Biol. Surv., 

 Circular No. 72. 



