FOREST AND STREAM 
865 
All the Wild Game 
You Want 
F OR many years we in America have spent much 
timebemoaningthe disappearance of our feathered 
game. But the fact that we have little game to 
shoot and little to eat is due solely to our own lack 
of initiative. We should have an abundance of 
game in the fields and on the market. We may ob¬ 
tain such an abundance by creating a supply equal to 
to the demand. This can be done by increasing 
nature’s output through game farming. And more¬ 
over, the demand of the sportsman may be much 
greater than at present, and still be easily met. 
We have the land available to make America the greatest 
game producing country in the world. Utilize it, and every¬ 
one will have more opportunities to indulge in field sports. 
There will be more shooting for all of us, whether or not we 
have access to a preserve, because game that is raised for 
sporting purposes can not be confined in any restricted area. 
Wherever game is intensively cultivated, we find improved 
shooting in all the surrounding territory. 
To anyone who has a small amount of land, game farming 
will prove profitable. The demands for eggs and for breeding 
stock is much greater than the supply, and will be for years 
to come. Pheasant eggs sell today at from $20 to $25 a 
hundred. Live birds bring from $5 to $7 a pair. 
To those who own large acreage, game farming either 
provides sport, or profit from those who will pay for sport. 
To the city man, it opens the possibility of enjoying good 
hunting near home. 
To everyone who shoots, it brings increased pleasure afield. 
Game farming means an addition to our food supply that 
will be welcome to all. 
But this subject is too big to be properly treated in this 
space. If you are interested in it, either as a sportsman, as a 
prospective breeder, or simply because you believe in the 
movement as constructive and progressive, write for the book, 
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nunters comparatively scarce no hunter was 
likely to interfere with you in trailing and kill¬ 
ing your game. Then we used the old single 
barrel muzzle loader, and because we had but 
one shot we were careful to make that one count. 
To-day we have more deer than ever because 
each hunter is limited, under the law, to one 
buck deer; and while we have many more hunt¬ 
ers than in the olden time, comparatively few 
of them get a buck. To-day it is a very com¬ 
mon thing to see camps consisting of from ten 
to thirty hunters break camp and go home with 
but one or two or three deer, and perhaps none. 
But the day of the old muzzle loader is gone 
forever. I have seen on our mountains in one 
bunch as many as thirty hunters armed with 
high-power breech loading rifles. Many of these 
would-be deer hunters have never seen a wild 
deer in the woods and are liable to shoot at any¬ 
thing they see move, be it buck, doe or man. 
It is no wonder so many hunters are shot and so 
many illegal deer are killed when you consider 
the character of the men who carry modern rifles 
to the woods. 
I have long been interested in the protection 
and propagation of game as well as in the pro¬ 
tection of our forests, for without forests we 
can have no game. Because of this I would like 
to make a few suggestions and venture a little 
advice to both of these commissions. There 
are men on both of these commissions who have 
never seen any or but very little of the great 
forest ranges of the state which they are sworn 
to protect, and there are others whose interest 
in the matter of game protection consists in at¬ 
tending a meeting of the board once in a while. 
From personal observation and knowledge of the 
work of both these commissions, I am not sure 
that the Game Commission and the Forestry 
Commission of the state are working in entire 
harmony. If they were I do not believe that the 
Forestry Commission would build saw mills 
close to our game parks, set apart by law and at 
great expense for the protection and propaga¬ 
tion of all kinds of game and then invade those 
parks with a crew of lumbermen and cut out the 
timber that nature put there to protect our game. 
I am sure this was not intended, much less 
thought of, when the game parks were estab¬ 
lished, and I am sure it is now being done 
against the earnest protest of the Game Com¬ 
mission and the people who are interested in 
both forestry and game protection. Why build 
great game preserves and fence them at the ex¬ 
pense of the people, build expensive houses for 
game wardens to protect these preserves and pay 
the wardens big salaries and then permit the 
forestry people to cut down all the timber fit 
to make saw lumber, destroy the small timber, 
make a fire trap of the entire preserve and drive 
the game elsewhere? And yet this is just what 
is being done to Kennedy Park, the Clearfield 
County game preserve, once the finest game pre¬ 
serve in the entire state. If our game parks are 
to amount to anything at all they should be 
under the sole control of the Game Commission. 
Again the matter of locating hunting camps 
on state forest lands should be placed under the 
control of the Game Commission. The Penn¬ 
sylvania Forestry Commission has made a sur¬ 
vey of the state forestry lands on our moun¬ 
tains where big game is found and they have 
located and numbered a camp site at almost 
every spring and stream on the mountains. Then 
they have made a permanent lease of these camp 
sites to hunters from all over the state, and all 
for the sake of a few paltry dollars. The very 
best game covers and breeding places on the 
Alleghenies have been invaded by hunting clubs 
under a lease from the forestry people, many of 
these camps being within hailing distance; but 
our deer and other game have left their tramp¬ 
ing grounds and gone elsewhere. This policy is 
against the interest of the hunters while it does 
the game great harm. There is plenty to do for 
each of these commissions along their legiti¬ 
mate lines of work. When the Forestry Com¬ 
mission has taken care of the state forest lands 
and kept the forest fires out they will have little 
time for anything else; but running saw mills on 
state lands is not protecting our forests, and 
locating a hunter’s camp within every thicket 
on the mountain is not protection to either game 
or forests. I have no quarrel with either the 
Forestry Commission or the Game Commission 
of our state; they have both done great work 
along their respective lines; but I was here long 
years before either of these commissions was 
created and I have, therefore, taken the liberty 
to say what I have, reserving the right, like 
Artemus Ward, to apologize if necessary, but I 
don’t believe I will be asked to do so. 
Frank G. Harris. 
