Evening journal., 1913-10-03
GAME PRESERVE
FOR DELAWARE
commission Going Into SuS-
sex County This Month,
TO Buy
FOUR DISTINCT OBJECTS
ARE IN VIEW

In another fortnight Delaware will
probably purchase a spacious game
preserve, for the breeding OF all game
and song birds. running game. in
Guiding deer, and fur-bearing ami
mails and the kind of fish that the
epicures as we'll as sportsmen love.
This Is the first year that the State
has ever made really concerted and
ambitious move for the conservation
OF game. The great value Of game and
particularly the birds TO the farmer
has been entirely overlooked.
Now it is discovered that in the
tide OF immigration. which has never
moved toward this peninsula to any
great extent, the home-seekers de-
sire TO know something Of the hunt
ing and fishing prospects here.
The movement is in line with similar
ones throughout the country. notably
in New England and the West. There
men of capital as we'll as States are
taking It up. Henry Ford, automobile
manufacturer of Detroit. has bought
over 2I00 acres, representing many
Individual farms and has taken up
modern farming but part Of his plan
Is to make the whole tract refuge
for birds. He has already imported
large numbers of birds and has put up
nesting and feeding houses. The
town Of Dover, Mass, has just ap-
pointed bird warden.
-Dolaware's game preserve will be a
stretch OF rolling and we'll watered
and wooded land not far from Laurel
IN Sussex county. The commission
FRS Intended TO go on the land this
week. but have been obliged 20 post
poue action for fortnight. Mean
time a check will be put on hunting
and fishing throughout the state, until
fhc work Of reparatlon and rehabili-
tation can get a start. and hence the
new game laws have come into exis-
tence and are being strictly en-
forced. The army Of gunners is grow
ing and In Massachusetts alone Il is
now equal to fifty entire regiments Of
infantry.
II is already noticed throughout
Delaware that the pheasants. a much
larger bird than the Quail. are doing
well and are multiplying. They are
protected for another year by state
jaw. .--
IN more than few cases. quail.
prairie chickens, mallards. wood
duck, and wild geese have been sat
lsfactorny propagated and. even ruffed
grouse are now being successfully
.aised in captivity.
Probably IN all the new legislation
which has created such a revolution
In this state. the interests OF the far
mer have been looked after first OF
-allsand he. Of course, has the final say
as 10 whether or not gunners, even
though licensed. shall come upon and
hunt on his lands. While receiving
the support Of the true sportsmen
the new orderTof stings is almos
certain 10 benefit the farmer by In
creasinE the species which are 81
useful to him in protecting his crops
II furthermore commands the inter
= -est of that ever increasing class o
persons who may find health -anC
recreation in observing or studyinl
nature. Weeds and injurious insects
cost the farmers OF this country (ant
eventually the people, millions of dol
lars annually, both in direct losses
and in expenditures for labor anC
materials necessary 10 protect theil
crops. A full complement of birdi
would consume these weed seeds an'
insects.