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As it was rainy with little early promise of good fishing, on No- 

 vember 26 we started home, going by rail by way of Eugene. We fished 

 48 days and caught 1,602 salmon. In addition we killed one deer, one 

 otter, three mink and about 125 ducks and shags. 



TO TEACH THE SCIENCE OF BREEDING AND 

 PRESERVING GAME 



For the first time in the history of this or any other country the 

 science of the breeding and preserving of game birds will be taught in 

 one of America's great universities, says Field and Stream. 



This is made possible by the passage of a bill in the New York 

 Legislature appropriating $15,000 for the purchase of a farm in Tomp- 

 kins County, on which it is provided experimental and practical breed- 

 ing of game may be carried on. It is further provided that the trustees 

 of Cornell University shall accept, maintain and administer the farm 

 and that it shall form a part of the New York State College of Agricul- 

 ture "for the purpose of conducting practical experiments in and giv- 

 ing instruction on the breeding of game." 



It is specifically provided that the farm shall be run in close co- 

 operation with the State Conservation Commission and that its surplus 

 product shall annually be placed at the disposal of the commission. 



Farmers, sportsmen and nature lovers generally will doubtless wel- 

 come this epoch-making action of the New York legislators. 



The immediate results that can be expected from the establish- 

 ment of the farm will be twofold: 



1. Instruction will be afforded young men who wish to become 

 qualified gamekeepers, for which class of labor the demand greatly 

 exceeds the supply. Practical experience on the farm will be re-enforced 

 by the technical instruction of the lecture-room. 



2. Farmers of New York will be given, through the medium of 

 the farm, instruction in the cultivation of a remunerative crop which 

 merges well with other agricultural activities, particularly dairying 

 and the growing of grasses. 



Upon the foundation that will be established, however, it is hoped 

 and confidently expected that in time Cornell will turn out men and 

 women well instructed not only in the science of game breeding and 

 preserving, but in all of the work incident to the conservation of wild 

 life of all kinds, particularly the insect-destroying and weed-seed eating 

 birds which play such an important part in crop protection. 



Those behind this movement believe that there will be an increasing 

 demand in this country for experts of this sort and that eventually 

 every state in the Union will have in its employ at least one such per- 

 son as a practical aid to farmers in the protection of their crops and 

 the breeding of game on a commercial basis, and to sportsmen in in- 

 creasing the supply of game birds. 



Cornell with her splendid laboratories and scientists of high rank 

 is already admirably equipped for carrying on this work and it needed 

 only the addition of this working laboratory, as it were, to make her 

 equipment for giving instruction in wild life conservation practically 

 complete. " r - PW^NI| 



Among those at Cornell who will co-operate in the development of 

 this work may be mentioned Dr. J. G. Needham, the well-known biol- 

 ogist; Professor James E. Eice, head of the Department of Poultry Hus- 

 bandry, and Dr. Arthur A. Allen, who has achieved a wide reputation 

 as an economic ornithologist. 



