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clubs which are now being organized soon will be- able 

 to furnish accurate figures as to the cost of good shoot- 

 ing, and when the owners of game are permitted to sell 

 some of the birds reared, during a long open season, I 

 have no hesitation in saying that excellent duck shooting 

 will cost little or nothing. 



The reader has observed, no doubt, that no provision is 

 made for the expenses of a club house. These may be 

 made to suit the members of a syndicate if a farm house 

 be rented or if a club house be erected. The sportsmen 

 who go to shoot on unpreserved marshes usually board at 

 a country hotel or gunning house, and the members of a 

 syndicate easily can arrange to put up at a country hotel 

 in the vicinity of their shooting ground, provided it be 

 impractical to go and return the same day. I visited a 

 preserve near New York recently and saw some fine duck 

 shooting. A good bag was made. The sportsmen all left 

 the city at noon and returned within an hour after dark. 

 The chief advantage of looking after the game properly is 

 that good shooting can be had in convenient locations 

 where at present there is no game. 



Every game club, or syndicate, should keep a game reg- 

 ister, in which should be entered the names of the various 

 species of game and the number taken by each gun. Some 

 of the clubs have the names of the game printed across 

 the top of the page, and the names of the sportsmen are 

 entered at the left hand side of the page, and the number 

 of each species of game taken is placed under the printed 

 heading designating the species. The form of game reg- 

 ister used at some of the American duck clubs is printed 

 in "Our Feathered Game." 



