The Amount of Shooting We Shall Enjoy 
, in the Future Depends Largely on the 
Extent to Which We Breed Game Now. 
Mr. Corsan’s Articles Will Appear in 
Forest and Stream Each Month 
nary mortals for looking at and into the preserve than they will 
the ordinary and usual shooting. The chances are they will not 
import lions, leopards and hunting dogs with the animals they 
propose to bring to the preserve. Thus, the imported animals be- 
‘ing ‘preserved from their natural killers, will increase more rap- 
idly than usual, but, at that, not fast enough to allow hunting for 
‘several years at least. If the enterprise is to pay there will be 
little killing done for a long time. Of course, before one backed 
)such an enterprise, it would be necessary to ‘inquire closely into 
the personnel—the promoters, directors, management, plans, and 
‘so forth—so as to ensure against being ‘“Koretzed.” 
ETROIT has many genuine bird lovers, as witness the Inter- 
national Migratory Bird Preserve. Securing a 600 acre tract, 
‘with a lake—Dunham Lake—north of Highland village in Oak- 
and County, Michigan, they will attempt to breed waterfowl from 
Asia, Europe, South America, as well as our own aquatic birds. 
_A list of the geese that they are securing will show that they have 
enterprise of a worth while kind: 
Magellan (2 kinds), Chile and Patagonia; grey lag, Europe; 
Chillian, Chile and Falkland Islands; ruddy headed, Asia; ashy 
headed or chestnut breasted, Chile; red breasted, Argentina; Sand- 
wich Island, Hawaiian Islands; blue, Central North America; 
/snow, North America; white front, Asia, Europe and western 
North America; pink footed, Asia; bernicle, Europe; bar headed, 
Asia; Ross, Alaska. 
All of these birds are quite hardy and can lie out in the snow 
all winter, except the Sandwich Island geese which must have a 
winter shed with hay, straw or dry leaves to protect their feet 
from freezing. 
In Cleveland, Mr. Chester K. Brooks, who has the good fortune 
_to possess two or three little lakes and some meadows of grass 
and clover, is making a strenuous effort to secure and breed the 
whistler swan. As no one has yet succeeded in breeding this variety 
of swan, it will be interesting to watch his work. This will not 
cost others of us anything, but it will cost him quite a lot of 
money one way and another. If he wins out, he will have the 
/ world’s admiration as the first breeder of whistler swans. I know 
that it was rather expensive breeding the blue geese and the lesser 
snow geese—and be the first to do so—in my little valley. But 
the results! Seeing sea gulls flying in the air is not an inspiring 
sight, but it is delightful to watch my blue and snow geese circling 
Echo Valley and forming Is, Vs, Ws, Ms, Ts, Ls, triangles and 
\ other forms. 
Hundreds of thousands of us are intensely eager to go out with 
'a gun and shoot, kill and destroy game birds. There are mil- 
_ lions of us who have never seen game, much less had a shot at it. 
Of the 120,000,000 of us Americans, 100,000,000 of us would be 
quite satisfied even to see the game. Many cities in the United 
States and Canada are situated on or near a lake, bay, large river 
_ or marsh, where game would delight to stop and rest and eat, while 
men and women, boys and girls came and made friends with them. 
| T the extreme western end of Lake Ontario is a huge duck 
marsh, known for many years as the Dundas Marsh. The city 
_ of Hamilton has grown almost to its edge. Hamilton also has a 
certain number of men commonly known—as they are every- 
where—as “bums.’”’ These men, though few in number, are pres- 
ent in sufficient numbers to be extremely effective in driving all 
» the ducks away from the great quantity of duck food growing in 
| this marsh, These men hunt the marsh all September, October 
i 

Ross snow geese; four adults and four young birds, the 
latter still in their first plumage. Mr. Blaauw says that 
the silvery gray of these birds and their dark shaft mark- 
ings are not conspicuous in the photo. 

Sandwich Island geese. Here both parents are on guard, 
one in advance, the other in the rear; the young birds, in 
the center, are still in their first plumage. 
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