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THE AUDUBON SOCIETIES AND GAME FARMING. 



By T. Gilbert Pearson. 

 Photographs by Herbert K. Job. 



The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies approving strongly of game 

 propagation, has for several years been 

 actively encouraging the practice. It 

 has done much pioneer work in the publi- 

 cation of literature giving practical in- 

 struction in these methods, and operates 

 a game-farm and experiment station. 



Owing to the growing interest and 

 many inquiries about the subject, in 1914 

 we were led to establish our DEPART- 

 MENT OF APPLIED ORNITHOL- 

 OGY, in charge of Herbert K. Job, well 

 known for his writings, researches, and 

 photographs of wild birds and game. 



The evident need of practical, visible 

 demonstration of details of method of 

 propagating game and attracting and 

 conserving wild bird life soon led us to 

 look for a suitable tract of land on which 

 to carry out our ideals. Realization of 

 this began when Charles M. Ams, Esq., 

 of New York City, offered the use of his 

 great tract of land at Amston, in eastern 

 Connecticut. This estate embraces three 



or four square miles of picturesque coun- 

 try, the natural haunt of wild game and 

 of abounding wild bird life, and includes 

 a fine, large lake, ponds, and streams. 



Under the management of Mr. Job, 

 from small beginnings we have now, as- 

 sisted by a group of prominent residents 

 of Connecticut, organized as "The Ams- 

 ton Game Club," built up a considerable 

 game-farm enterprise, employing as 

 resident game-keeper one of the most 

 widely experienced professionals in this 

 country, Robert K. McPhail, formerly 

 game-keeper to King Edward of Eng- 

 land at Windsor Castle. We have 

 equipped a pheasant-rearing venture, be- 

 sides continuing and enlarging our propa- 

 gation work with native wild ducks of a 

 dozen or more species, the quail work, 

 with the Bob-white and California Val- 

 ley Quail, and the experiment with na- 

 tive wild doves and pigeons, particularly 

 the Mourning Dove. 



In order to make Amston a center of 

 interest in all practical methods with bird 



