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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1920 
THE PROTECTION OF ALASKA GAME 
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DOGS 
In transactions between strangers, the 
purchase price in the form of a draft, 
money order or certified check payable to 
the seller should be deposited with some 
disinterested third person or with this of- 
fice with the understanding that it is not 
to be transferred until the dog has been 
received and found to be satisfactory. 
COLLIES 
WHITE COLLIES, BEAUTIFUL, INTELLI- 
gent, refined and usetul; pairs not a kin for sale. 
The Shomont, Monticello, Iowa. 
GUN DOGS 
FINISHED AND EXPERIENCED SHOOTING 
dogs, pointer and llewellyn setter dogs, 3 years 
old; good lookers, bred second to none; cracker- 
jack quail and grouse dogs, fine retrievers, $2o0 
each Three year old pointer dog, very slow, 
careful, all and everyday hunter, fine for single 
quail, extra good grouse dog, $200. Pointer dog, 
2 years old, a wonder; does everything that a 
dog should do, experience on quail and grouse, 
$200. Llewellyn setter and pointer bitch. Just 
bred to high-class stud dog. Both first-class 
brood bitches; good lookers and high-class quail 
and grouse dogs. All papers for puppies, $200 
each. And fifteen other registered dogs, all 
broken, from $150 up. Harmon Sommerville, 
Amite, Louisiana. 
HOUNDS 
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. MOUNTED 
deer heads for hounds trained on coon or fox. 
Victor Holmes, Craig, Colorado. 
FOR SALE— PAIR OF WHITE AND TAN 
fox hounds, 20 months, male and female, not 
broken but started on fox; $30 the pair. Garfield 
Taylor, Pulaski, Iowa. 
HUNTING DOGS 
HUNTING DOGS — RABBIT HOUNDS, FOX 
hounds, coon, opossum, skunk, squirrel, bear, deer 
dogs, setters, pointers, farm, pet dogs. Browns 
Kennels, York, Pennsylvania. 
FOR SAXE— POINTER PUPPIES, BRED 
from best hunting stock. G. H. Putnam, Framing- 
ham, Massachusetts. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
MANGE, ECZEMA, EAR CANKER GOITRE, 
sore eyes cured or no charge; write for particu- 
lars. Eczema Remedy Company, Dept. F., Hot 
Springs, Arkansas. 
NORWEGIAN BEAR DOGS— IRISH WOLF 
Hounds, English Bloodhounds, Russian \\ olf 
hounds, American Fox Hounds, Lion, Cat, Deer, 
Wolf, Coon and Varmint Dogs; fifty page highly 
illustrated catalogue, 5 $ stamps. Rookwood Ken- 
nels, Lexington, Kentucky. 
HOUNDS AND HUNTING — MONTHLY 
Magazine featuring the hound. Sample free. 
Address Desk F, Hounds and Hunting, Decatur, 
Illinois. 
DOGS! DOGS! DOGS! ALL KINDS.— FOX 
terriers, bulls, airedales, collies, Irish terriers, 
etc., male and female pups. I handle more dogs 
than any other man in the country. Quick sales 
and small profits. Specify the kind of dog you 
want. I will positively fill your order. Leo 
Smith, 305 Varick Street, Jersey City, New Jersey. 
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS OF 
Berry, Ky., offer for sale setters and pointers, fox 
and cat hounds, wolf and deer hounds, coon and 
opossum hounds, varmint and rabbit hounds, bear 
and lion hounds, also airedale terriers. All dogs 
shipped on trial, purchaser alone to judge the 
quality. Satisfaction guaranteed or money re- 
funded. Sixty-eight page, highly illustrated, in- 
teresting and instructive catalogue for 10c in 
stamps or coin. 
WESTMINSTER KENNELS, TOWER HILL, 
Illinois, offers reliable coon, skunk, opossum, fox, 
coyotte and wolf hounds. We continue to sell 
cracker-jack rabbit hounds at $15. All broken dogs 
sold on ten days’ trial. Choice puppies, dogs just 
beginning to trail, $10. We take Liberty Bonds 
and War Savings Stamps. 
the game conflicts with their material in- 
terests. Struggling as they are with the 
forces of nature which are harsher in 
that northern country than elsewhere, 
imbued with the spirit and feeling that 
we are all obligated to them for persist- 
ing in the discouraging hardships of de- 
veloping a new country, they do not want 
any avoidable handicaps imposed upon 
them. The case for conserving Alaska 
game must be based on reasons other 
than aesthetic. 
The problem of game conservation is 
too often considered as a simple one 
whereas it is really very complex, and 
both local Alaska opinion and that of 
outsiders is often formed too hastily, 
from too narrow a point of view which 
is lacking in foresight. For this very 
reason the Western United States lost 
most of their game, only to discover, 
when it was too late, that it could not 
be restored and that an asset of great 
value had been lost forever. We all 
agree that in order to provide great 
grazing areas for cattle most of the buf- 
falo had to go. But what would it mean 
to the Western States today, if antelope, 
mountain sheep, deer, wapiti and bears 
had been intelligently preserved so that 
a proper amount of shooting could now 
attract to these States the very large 
amount of funds and employment which 
sportsmen might bring to them? The 
States are now advertising widely to in- 
vite sportsmen to hunt the slender rem- 
nants of the game that is left. The 
vast waste areas of these States have 
been denuded of game and are now of 
no economic value. They remain as mon- 
uments of the lack of foresight in estab- 
lishing in time sound methods of game 
conservation. 
I T is also a matter of great regret to 
me, that in the discussion of game 
preservation in Alaska, the question of 
meat “wasted” by sportsmen, and the 
value of game in exclusive terms of meat 
statistics, have been used in what I be- 
lieve is a misleading way. The manner 
in which this subject has been handled 
only tends to create confusion of ideas 
on the question. Generally it is said that 
the game killed by sportsmen represents 
a given weight of meat “wasted” and 
therefore lost to the Alaska residents as 
food. Such statements are not wholly 
true because a portion of this meat is 
always eaten by Alaskans who accom- 
pany the sportsman. The Alaska legis- 
lature has passed a law requiring every 
effort on the part of those who kill game 
to utilize the meat. 
But since sportsmen hunt primarily 
for recreation, sport, and trophies, a pro- 
portion of the meat of animals killed is 
not utilized. The real question, always 
neglected in the discussion, is, does a loss 
of food for the Alaskans result from this 
practice? Does the sportsmen pay to 
the Alaskans more in cash than the value 
of the meat which he leaves in the 
hills? Can the Alaskans purchase with 
the sportsmen’s cash an amount of food 
more than the equivalent of that which 
he has left unused? I think that every 
sportsman who has paid the Alaska ex- 
penses of his hunt, and every Alaskan 
who knows of his actual expenses, will 
agree that the money paid in Alaska by 
every sportsman is, if the law has been 
observed, much more than the value of 
the meat left behind. The expenditures 
of every sportsman who goes to hunt in 
Alaska represent a real economic gain 
to the country. 
The question as to whether the killing 
of game for sport so reduces the num- 
bers of animals as to reduce the food 
supply of the people is an entirely differ- 
ent one that touches the proper regula- 
tion of the game supply. The question 
of killing meat and indirectly overpaying 
its value for the privilege is an economic 
one; that of maintaining a surplus of 
game thus to be killed without detriment 
to the local food necessities of the local 
people is one of establishing proper 
methods of protecting it and of regulat- 
ing the killing. There is no good reason 
why the former question should be 
brought in to confuse an intelligent dis- 
cussion of the latter which is the vital 
one. 
T HE game of Alaskr should be 
viewed as a great and permanent 
economic asset to the Territory. 
The stock of game should be increased 
when necessary, or maintained in its 
present abundance where the numbers 
are now sufficient. Exactly as there is a 
yearly .surplus of cattle, or horses, or 
sheep on a ranch, or chickens on a 
chicken farm, this surplus should so be 
used for the maximum economic gain as 
not to impair the full numbers necessary 
for breeding stock. This breeding stock 
will always satisfy those who regard 
game from an aesthetic point of view. 
The yearly surplus should be used first, 
to satisfy, when the conditions require 
it, the food necessities of the local peo- 
ple; second, to attract outsiders for sport 
and thus bring into the country the 
net profits resulting from sport. Indi- 
rectly along with these, the new country 
will be benefited by attracting to it peo- 
ple who will advertise it and make its 
economic possibilities widely known. 
Thus if wisely handled, under sound laws 
which shall be properly enforced, so long 
as parts of Alaska remain a wilderness 
the game supply can be maintained and 
continued as a great asset both for the 
local food supply, and for the profits and 
indirect advantages resulting from sport. 
It would be a narrow point of view and 
one of great possible loss to Alaska to 
consider its game wholly for local con- 
sumption as food, or for outsiders to 
neglect in their consideration the actual 
conditions of the country and to regard 
its game wholly from an aesthetic stand- 
point or one of sport. The broad view- 
point is one which will seek to conserve 
the game so that all its possibilities may 
be realized. 
In any possible future Alaska game 
