Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure

B. Davis Clement

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Our ornithologists and sporting writers deplore the rapid disappearance of this wonderful food supply and often they predict the extermination of game in America. Some recom mend, continually, more stringent game laws, limiting or prohibiting sport, but, since the game has continued to vanish notwithstanding such enactments, many have doubted the possibility fof: saving the more valuable upland species if any shooting be permitted. There is good reason for the doubt. A large and ever increasing number of guns, each taking only a few birds during a short open season, undoubtedly produces the same result which was produced by a smaller number of guns, each taking a larger number of birds during a long open season. All naturalists agree that the absolute prohibition of field sports does some good only when the species has not been too much decimated to survive its natural enemies. All agree that even a little shooting is too much, unless the game enemies be controlled, because any slight additional check to the in crease of a species must cause it rapidly to decrease in numbers. The prohibition of sport, which we have been facing, is highly undesirable. Fortunately we now know that it is unnecessary. Field sports need no defence or apology in so far as the readers of this little book are concerned. Their enemies do not realize the importance of the health-giving exercise which they denounce, or the economic value of the food which field sports can be made to produce. The distinguished orni thologist, Elliot, in his book on our gallinaceous game birds, refers to the pleasure they yield and the incentive they provide for action and effort, when in the leafy aisles of whispering forests, or in the thickets and along the banks of the leaping stream, or in the open sky-encircled prairie, man in his quest for these game-like creatures, aided by his faithful dog, findsrenewed health and strength to wrestle with the toils and troubles of his daily life. The food value of our g

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243761296
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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HIS little book is offere d to the people of North America in the hope that it will hasten the day when our continent shal produce enough game to supply abun d an foo d and health gi v ing recreatio n The author predicts that America w ill eventuall y be the greatest game producing country in the world and w e believe he points the logical way for the fulfillment of this prophecy It is time for us to unite in creating through our industry a wealth of wild life to take the place of that which nature ga v e us and we so thoughtlessly destroyed Heretofore our energies have been mainly expended in trying to bring back the game by proh bitory legislation Our laws have said You must kill game instead of You may r These lawsaise game have undoubtedly done much good in a negative way but they o er no real solution of the problem They are not creati v butSome of them we shall probably need always man y of them will become obsolete shortly after laws per mitting game breeding are enacte d Prohibitions whic h see m important when there is little game to protect will become su p erfluous w hen a large supply is constantly maintained In promoting game breeding the Hercules Powder Company naturally considers its own interests but fortunately they are inalienably nked with the country s welfare in thi s important matter We feel n o hesitancy in asking all sportsmen who belie v are in the right direction e our to suppor t them by givi n g us their pa ronage We t ake ac no w ledging our indebte d ness the American Museum of Natural History for photographs and drawings made from its collections They appear on pages bottom of page

had only a years ago a greate r number an d v ariety of valuable wild f ood birds than any co ntry in the world T h e records of two guns shooting with muzzle loaders over a hundred wood cock in a day q te near New York of the shooting of over a h undred bay snipe at a single discharge of the shooting of wagon loads of p rairie grouse and wild ducks seem incredible but they are authen t ic as recorded in our ornithologies Bogardus tel s us that wit h a friend he shot three h n dred and forty Wilson s snipe one day in Illinois and Mr Pringle in his history of The in Louisiana records the taking of thousands of these tooth some birds duri n g a season shooting day after day over marshes near the house Cody Bu falo Bill records the killing o f four orfiTheve hundred wild turkeys at one camp in the West p lacing of a bounty on the ru in Maed grouse s sachu s etts because it was considered too abun d ant for the successf u l gro w ing of fruit the d estruction of prairie grouse in e n tuck y because as Audubon says they were regarded as pests a n d many more recent records might be cited to prove the former