The Washington herald., 1907-09-16

Ri game preserves are flcNiE WOODED,
and he is not only experimenting in the
breeding Of American birds, fish, and
animals. bat is also introducing many
hardy European varieties
Some Of the biggest Fairgrounds are
in the Adirondacks for i'm that wonderful
garden spot, where nature is still un-
touched in all her primitive g1rgeousness.
there are thousands Of acres of woodland.
mountain, and stream that enterprising
millionalres OF clubs have set aside for
their hunting grounds, or for experiment
stations In the breeding of new kinds Of
game In NewSYork state alone there
are nearly 10000 acres in private game
preserves, tracts that in the aggregate
amount 20 more than the preserves of all
other States taken together, and that
equal almost half the State Of Delaware.
The sum Of all the private preserves of
this country is over I.SJ0 square miles
an area considerably larger than the State
Of Rhode Island
As a rule the animals fndfganous tn
that particular locality are kept on
each preserve; many run wild. but the
majority are confined behind wire
fences The Virginia deer and the elk
lead in points of preference in stock
Ing a preserve. the buffalo Is widely
popular. and for this reason the herds
nave been materially increased in the
past two decades. Partridgcs and Eng
IIsh pheasants are the fav0rites among
Ieathered game, while the rufled
grouse. Wild turkeys and Canadian
geese have proved popular. The list
OF animals on the widely-scattered
preserves is varied one There are
Pule-DIooh and hybrid bufaloes, black
tail. Virginia and falIow deer. p-opr-
norm antelopes, Rocky Mountain sheep.
moose, caribou, American goats. blacI,
bears, prairie wolves. Canada Iv7vas
fed and gray foxes, I8mas. SQUIRRELS
American snow-shoe rabbits, lack rab-
bits, English gray and black hares heav-
tFs' mlnks, otters, porcupiueS. mountain
mons. raccoons, and even kangaroos. ze-
bras, and moneys.
some are protected for the use of
hunting parties. some merely as curl
osltles, some for scientific research. bur
all result in the same thing. q Drasar-
Walton and knowledge Of the native
game, and the introduction of the most
adaptable foreign. "Daheim," in
butchess County y. Y. the propertv
VI I r. Dieterich, Of New York CITY.
H@s given much time to the importation
aHu breeding OF German game on the
1'VVV-acre tract set apart fourteen
years ago the German ..Rusa " German
mares and partridgcs are being raised
IN addition TO American quail and Eng
IsR pheasants. On the famous "Cco5-
night Ranch In Armstrong County
eNr cataloes as well as pure buf-
IaIoes are being made speciality. The
"lld boar, which has figured pron1i-
HehIIy ior so many centuries in stories
y! NeT THlah forests. IS making a strong
Did lot popularity on American game
preserves. On the Vanderbilt estates
~ North Carolina experiments are he
'ag made in crossing this animal v-itb
the native 'raZOT-baCk" hog. and the
Jekyl Island club, of Georgia. the Rlue
Mountain Forest Preserve of New
hampshire, and LitchheId Park IN
rankin County. y. Y. have ell intro
duced the wild boar with great success
The largest private preserve f., IN.
United States IS the "Pisgah Forest ana
Biltmore Estate" Of George W. Wander
bilt. which lies in Buncombe. Ffaywood
henderson, and TransyIvania corntias
n {. This preserve embraces. 121 0oa .c~..
Of widely diversified Iand-mountaf,s
agricultural. and tracts heavily vvoo5-
ed Ten thousand acres of this r~a
serve are fenced in. and fourteen ~
gers and twenty guards look after The
game. and see that the laws are kent
An expert scientist conducts a school of
forestry and OverlOoks the breeding of
better game. This is only twelve wears
Ola yet there are already large herds Of
virginia deer, many black bear. wild
there. ~
The next largest preserve wholly IN tbis |
country is that Of the TahawIIs Club In /
the Adlrondacks, a leased area of 81 200 /
acres oHering shelter for bear. deer. and /
an indigenous Wild animals. This was the |
pioneer preserve in the Adiroudgcts and |
was originally leased by the Adirond7cr- /
Club In 49, and then by the Tabav,1,s /
Club in 1885. The Adirondack T,eapr,,,
Club owns the 70.000-acre tract tb,+ i+s
members hunt over in Hamilton and Her
Amer counties, and for seventeen years
mas watched carefully over the increase
OF its Virginia deer elk. moose. and black
bear. George J. Gould has two Fur
Tough Lodges One Of 200 acres IS IN l.
Guilford County, n. c., and is stocked /
with quail. wild turkeys, and Fnglisb and
Mongolian pheasants. The other has 2 en9 !,
acres and is in Ulster County. N. Y If \
has larger game.
Possibly the largest individual owner
or lessee Of hunting preserves was the
late William c. Whitney. Near Ienor
Mass, he had 1900 acres set aside IN
1881. and on this five years later he Irb- |,
Grated l,T50 English pheasants. It was
amply stocked with buffalo. elk and /
black-tati deer In Hamilton County
\. Y, he secured 6S.000 acres fen
years ago, and liberated a herd OF Ell, !,
and stocked the streams with trout In
Fayette and Hardeman counties West
Tennessee, Mr.. Whitney had also large J
game preserve where he revived the ante S
Dellum sport OF fox hunting. and added {
70 MS Kennels the famous pack OF bear {
dogs from the BObo plantations in Nrfe- {
sissippi The native game is nresa-,,o7 !
there and the place was literally re-
stocked with lacking varieties.
The MegantiC Fish and Game Preserve q
owning 10000 acres that extend Through =
Franklin County, Me-, far into the I
Province Of Quebec, was established Z
twenty years ago, and Is stocked win a
leer and other animals common TO that i
locality. In Barnstable County. Mass Z
he Namequoit Experimental Breed. y
ng Station has been deeply inter- | c
.sted for the past ten years In the breed / y
ng Of native and foreign water fowl. On
he ten-acre tract set aside for this pur-
)Ose the owner is domesticatlng almost
very available species Of waterfowl a
lfudyfng their habits and avnariy,, q, ti,,,.