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by the experience of one of the counties in North Carolina, where 

 a few years ago on most of the farms hunting rights for quail shoot- 

 ing were systematically leased; in 1904 probably two-thirds of all 

 the real-estate taxes outside the towns were paid by receipts from 

 hunting privileges on lands leased for this purpose. In short, the 

 quail crop was made to pay most of the taxes on the farms. The 

 hunting privileges on a number of adjoining farms comprising an 

 area of several hundred or a thousand acres are usually acquired by 

 a single lessee or club, the basis of compensation being a definite 

 rental by the acre fo* a term of years, with the privilege of renewal. 

 This rental may be based on the tax rate or double this rate. 



In sections where it is not feasible to lease lands on a cooperative 

 basis or in sufficient acreage for club preserves, individual landowners 

 who have quail or other birds on their holdings may still obtain a 

 substantial income. By allowing sportsmen the privilege of hunting 

 on their property and in addition by furnishing them teams, hunt- 

 ing dogs, and the assistance of boys for locating the game, and by 

 providing accommodations for sportsmen from a distance, the owners 

 will obtain a direct and very substantial return on any effort ex- 

 pended in increasing the game and preventing it from being killed 

 off before the season opens. 



VALUE OF GAME FROM THE STANDPOINT OF HEALTH. 



In a book entitled " Our National Recreation Parks," Dr. Nicholas 

 Senn lays special stress on the value of recreation as a restorer of 

 health. 8 



The man who toils with his brain in the bank, the pulpit, the court room, 

 the library, the great mercantile establishments, and last, but not least, at the 

 bedside of the sick or in the operating room, is the one above all others in 

 need of an occasional rest, change of mental activity and surroundings. Men 

 who ignore nature's warnings and appeals for rest, sooner or later are made 

 to pay dearly for their neglect, and only too often mend their ways when ir is 

 too late. Brain toil means the prolonged strenuous application of the neurons 

 which preside over functions required in the discharge of professional duties 

 or business transactions. If these functions are overtaxed, brain fatigue is 

 the result. * * * 



There is no country in the world that has as many imprudent brain workers 

 as the United States. The unbridled ambition for fame, influence, and wealth 

 leads to a strenuous life which has shortened the lives and curtailed the use- 

 fulness of thousands of our best professional and business men annually, and 

 there are no indications pointing to an abatement of the intense struggle for 

 supremacy in all walks of life. Fortunately, there is no country that can equal 

 our own in the number and attractiveness of places of genuine recreation for 

 those who are in search of mental repose. * * * One of the most desirable 

 places for this class of patients is unquestionably the Yellowstone Park. * * * 



s Senn, Nicholas, Our national recreation parks, pp. 13—16, 71, Chicago. 1004. 



