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looks entirely different from an ordinary hedge. It suggests that the 
good points of osage hedges have never been fully ‘exploited. 
Putting everything together, it may be fairly asked whether the 
anti-osage campaign has not been dictated more by a point of view than 
by immutable economic trends. The question is whether a re-examination 
of the evidence from 4 new point of view is not in order? Even if the 
economic evidence shows against the hedge, is the state really prepared 
to "live with" the barren lifeless prairie which is the inevitable sonse- 
quence? 
These are subjects for agricultural colleges to investigate and 
for conservation bodies to debate. They have much more significance than 
the tinkering of conservation laws, the starting of game Tarms, and the 
signing of conservation pledges py citizens who own no land, the general 
public would produce more game by in some way paying the farmer 4 ponus 
on hedges than by spending the same money on foreign pirds or Kansas 
rabbits. ‘The fact that questions of this kind are not discussed by cons 
servation bodies or studied by conservation officers is conclusive evi- 
yet come to erips with 
dence that the game conservation movement has not 
the real fundamentals. of the problem it intends to solve. 
Frosin in Illinois. Mosier and Custafson(University of Illinois, 1928) 
show than an area of 5,565 square miles in 62 counties surveyed, or 195 
per cent of the state, consists of broken and hilly land subject to serious 
drainage from surface washing. Some of this is already completely ruined. 
An additional 15 per cent of undulating yand is not badly damaged yet, 
put is in danger. 
which is the 
All of this 30%°lies in the river breaks type, 
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