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of sportsmen with small annual dues can 

 be induced to produce millions of birds 

 on some of the desolate upland areas 

 and on the ponds they will not only pro- 

 "vide sport for themselves and food for 

 the people, but will furnish game to re- 

 stock the rest of. the country and to fly 

 out to the vast public bays and marshes 

 where the shooting will be much im- 

 proved. 



Wild Ducks in Utah. 



J. C. Smith, the No. 2 District Warden 

 of Utah, reports the duck shooting was 

 very satisfactory last season. The dis- 

 astrous malady, reported in The Game 

 Breeder, he says "has practically disap- 

 peared and birds are more plentiful." 



Black Bear in Minnesota. 



The Game and Fish Commissioner of 

 Minnesota says : "The black bear is dis- 

 tributed over a considerable area of the 

 State, but so sparsely that it is only occa- 

 sionally that a deer or moose hunter in- 

 cidentally secures one. There is no pro- 

 tection afforded bear under our law — no 

 closed season which there should be. The 

 bear is comparatively harmless, is only 



found in almost uhihhabited places, is 

 an interesting animal and valuable both 

 for his belt and for food. The animal 

 should receive more attention with a 

 view to its preservation." 



Beaver in Utah. 



Mr. Fred W. Chambers, the. Fish and 

 Game Commissioner of Utah, says : "The 

 beaver and otter have been protected for 

 the last eight years and show a marked 

 increase in the eastern and southeastern 

 part of Utah. The department receives 

 many complaints from farmers and 

 ranchmen to the effect that the beaver 

 .are doing damage to the canals and 

 wooded sections. However, the law is 

 adequate and whenever this is found to 

 be the case the beaver are trapped and 

 transferred to another part of the State 

 or killed." 



Why not encourage some profitable 

 beaver farming. Skunk farming is get- 

 ting to be quite an industry in Michigan 

 and elsewhere and the encouragement of 

 profitable trout breeding in Utah cer- 

 tainly has produced good results in Utah 

 as it has in Colorado and many other 

 States East and West. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Black Ducks. 



It is evident that the demand for black 

 ducks and their eggs is increasing 

 rapidly. One of our southern breeders 

 writes : "Unless I can capture some more 

 black duck stock I will probably be on 

 the market for black ducks myself." 



Wild Geese. 



Mr. Albert N. Froom of The New 

 Holland Farms, New Holland, Hyde 

 County, North Carolina, who advertises 

 wild geese writes : "As to people being 

 able to keep wild geese, I know that all 

 the requirements for wild geese are a 

 pool of water for breeding purposes and 

 plenty of grass ; succulent feeds of beets, 



potatoes, cabbage and grain suffice for 

 the winter months.' 



"I find them one of the easiest fowls 

 to keep. They soon learn to look for 

 their herder. Keep their wings under 

 control (pinioning I regard as best) and 

 you have some fine game. 



Mr. Froom has a good lot of wild 

 geese for sale at reasonable prices. 



Geese on the Preserve. 



Every game farm and preserve which 

 has a pond and suitable meadow for geese 

 should have at least a few of these birds. 

 They surely will attract migratory geese 

 and a few wild geese in the bag and on 

 the table are quite worth while. 



