Game Breeding in America 
(Continued from page 719) 
partment, under Dr. E. W. Nelson, is 
very careful to see that doubtful char- 
acters are not given permits to trap 
waterfowl or upland game. 
Game-breeders have concentrated on 
breeding only the edible birds. They 
take no interest in breeding fish-eating 
or flesh-eating birds whatsoever, leav- 
ing these to the Zoos or to their nat- 
ural habitat. Nearly all of the game 
birds are exceedingly beautiful birds, 
both in conformation and in color. This 
fact, added to their “good-eating” qual- 
ity, as well as their ability to destroy 
injurious insects, makes them of much 
interest to the breeder. Many breed- 
ers are especially interested in the va- 
rieties that are becoming rare and are 
being threatened with _ extinction. 
Game-breeders have certainly saved the 
wood duck, the mandarin duck, the 
Tasmanian goose, the trumpeter swan, 
from total extinction. I include the 
trumpeter swan because there is no 
other means, that I can see, to save that 
small remnant in British Columbia. 
Then, too, if we are alert, by game- 
breeding we can save the wonderfully 
beautiful and valuable waterfowl of 
southern South America, as well as the 
gorgeous pheasants of India, China, Ja- 
pan and other Asiatic countries. It is 
up to us to make the millions of acres 
of idle and waste land in this country 
abound in game. 
People who live in congested areas 
will think that statement curious, but 
I have traveled for days in North 
America on swift trains, often seeing 
nothing but endless plains from the car 
windows, and only here and there, per- 
haps an hour apart, a little house 
breaking the monotony. Such territory 
could yield us great wealth in game. 
Even here in Michigan, where the 
country is more settled, and where I am 
writing this article, I disturb thou- 
sands of grasshoppers in my _ long, 
cross-country walks—grasshoppers that 
thin the already thin herbage or grass 
and are of no earthly use whatever ex- 
cept as food for quail, pheasant and wild 
turkey, yet I have seen nothing but one 
little flock of Bob White in charge of 
the cock bird. I don’t know what had 
happened to the mother bird but I did 
see a slinking cat a hundred feet or so 
distant. The land ’round about is ex- 
ceedingly poor farming land, being 
mostly sand and gravel, but is, for this 
reason, particularly well adapted for 
the raising of these birds. Oak trees 
with acorns, bushes loaded with hazel- 
nuts or wild berries grow in great pro- 
fusion and, with the hordes of grass- 
hoppers, make fine food for game birds. 
plants, shrubs, vines and trees is as im- 
portant a phase of game-breeding as is 
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