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jail if he sells some of them to pay ex- 

 penses, and it will not be long before the 

 prairie grouse are abundant and all who 

 wish to procure stock birds and eggs can 

 do so. Any good sized grouse ranch 

 easily should make $10,000 or $20,000 a 

 year for its owner without detriment to 

 the grass and grain which can be pro- 

 duced on the same ground. 



In the next paper I shall describe in 

 detail how the grouse on a farm or 

 ranch can be made to yield from $10,000 

 to $20,000 a year in the States where it 

 no longer is criminal to profitably pro- 

 duce wild food birds on a farm. The 

 best places for grouse breeding undoubt- 

 edly are places where a few grouse still 

 occur. But the industry quickly can be 

 made profitable in Ohio, Indiana, Ken- 

 tucky, Michigan and some other States 

 where grouse formerly were abundant 



but where now they are extinct, or nearly 

 so. 



The law is all right in Indiana, we are 

 told, but a number of "fool" sections 

 must be eliminated in some of the other 

 States before any industry can safely be 

 undertaken. We would imagine that 

 there should be no objection to introduc- 

 ing grouse for profit in States where they 

 are not mentioned in the laws because the 

 birds have become extinct. We were told 

 recently, however, that we could not eat 

 wild turkeys in New York which were 

 legally produced in other States, and it 

 may be there are some absurd statutes 

 in many States which prohibit farmers 

 from introducing and breeding grouse. 

 It will not be long, however, we predict, 

 before all of the "fool" laws are re- 

 pealed or at least amended so as to en- 

 courage game breeding. 



THE VANISHING WOOD-COCK. 



American Woodcock. 



From The Cuvier 



Not lung ago the Biological Survey, 

 United States Department, published a 

 bulletin on "Two Vanishing Game 

 Birds — The Wood-duck and the Wood- 

 cock."' Breeders of wood-ducks are now 

 successful in breeding this splendid wild 

 fowl and there is no more danger of its 

 becoming extinct in America than there 

 is of its becoming extinct in Holland 

 and Belgium where it was introduced 

 and made plentiful by breeders from 

 whoi 



n we now secure 



stock. 



European Woodcock. 

 Club Collection. 



The wood-cock responds nicely to the 

 practical protection given to other birds 

 on game farms and preserves. I have 

 observed the wood-cock breeding in 

 quiet and safety on club grounds and 

 game farms where wild ducks are bred 

 in abundance, The control of the hawks, 

 snakes, crows, dogs, cats and other ver- 

 min in order to prevent them from de- 

 stroying wild ducks and eggs results in 

 the wood-cock finding safe nesting 

 places and when there are more game 



