and it is only by management practices that improve environment and life 
expectancy that more than,@ minor, shere can be harvested by hunters without 
imperiling maintenance. of the stock, Sih a as eS eae BEE Ree ay 
The idea is rather widely held that game birds, particularly quail, 
produce more than one brood per year, but every scientific study of the 
subject has demonstrated that this is. not. true, This fancy, like all others 
that give an exaggerated view of reproductive capacity, should be refuted on 
_@ll appropriate occasions so that belief in them will eventually be destroyed. 
Such ideas hamper management and administration of game because they prevent | 
the sportsmen from appreciating. the basic facts upon which these arts, to i 
succeed, must be based. 3 ny 
Free hunting,—-This term, dear to the heart of American hunters, is a 
misnomer for geme is not, and cannot be, produced for nothing. Unless the 
sportsmen pays an equivalent of the cost of production of game he is sponging 
on someone,. If.on privately owned land, probably a farmer; and if on State or 
Federal lend, it is the-public that is paying for the production of the game they 
huntér takes, usually without any other thougnt than that he has a right to it, 
There is no such right, however, and until the policy is universally adopted 
of the svortsman paying adequately for what he takes, game production to some 
degree will be a form of charity. On lands the ownership of which does not 
permit charity, game production, in the absence of satisfactory recompense, is 
certain to be meager, and the hunting privilege of little value. : 
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