THE FUTURE OF THE MOOSE 



dressed weight, exclusive of head and hide; and 

 in some territories exempting from the appHcation 

 of the law hunters who use the flesh of the animals 

 which they kill as food while in the woods. 



Men who hunt include those who care for nothing 

 but a trophy, and also those who care for nothing 

 but meat for the market. But in addition to the 

 head hunters and the market hunters are the sports- 

 men who enjoy the sport of hunting, who prize 

 the trophies which they secure, and who recognize 

 the economic value of the moose as food. They 

 have no desire to commercialize sport by selling 

 moose meat to the butcher shops; neither do they 

 wish to see moose exterminated for their heads, 

 as the bison were well-nigh exterminated for their 

 hides forty years ago. If the law should compel 

 sportsmen to take moose meat from the woods, 

 and at the same time should close the markets to 

 traffic in game, there would be no just ground for 

 complaint. The sportsman, on reaching the 

 nearest settlement, can always give the meat away, 

 if he does not care to keep it for the benefit of 

 himself and his friends by the aid of some cold- 

 storage warehouse at his home. 



