The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-08
PHEASANT REARING
OFFERS NEW TRADE
Success on Lon" Island shows
Possibilities With Wild
Ducks Also.
GAME Is RAPIDLY GOING

Thousands upon thousands of birds
and animals are killed annually all
over the country. and that the eXecu-
ton o~verbalances the production is
indicated by the fact that less game is
found each shooting season. Laws
have been enacted for the prevention
of wholesale killing; in fact in some
States and counties the hunters daily
allowance would scarcely prove an
adequate meal for "A small family, II
the quantity of game continues 10
decrease.
Stringent laws have failed to help
materially in a%ugmenting the already
short supply ana II is the general
opinion of sportsmen, at any rate Of
those in the East, that Il is only a
question Of time-and a short time at
that-before game will be practically
extinct. Some ven predict that
twenty-five years from now gunners
Of to-day will TAXI their grandchildren
~ ~ diAN i'''N wan
sorrow to all that remains OF the Bob
White, the ruffed grouse, the pheasant
and the different breeds OF wild duck
which were once Plentiful.
II the game laws were to be enforced
TO the letter they would no doubt
prove effective, but it is almost i'm
possible to carry out such enforce
ment, Game wardens are few. For
n Of them thoroughly to patrol more
than a few square miles of territory
would be impossible. Therefore either
much territory is poorly patrolled or
n small tract is well protected at the
expense Of the rest Of the area.
Then again many game wardens are
incompetent or lazy or both. which
fact becomes known to pot hunters
AID other INSCRIPTIONS game Killers.
VINO take advantage Of the situation
and conduct a Wholesale slaughter.
Besides this verm!n are and probably
always viii be responsible for the de-
struCt!on of much game. Foxes.
weasels, skunks and snakes are Just as
fond OF game dinners as the shooting
club connoisseur and probably partake
Of them oftener than he does.
Another big factor in the destruction
or American game is the advance In
transportation facllities-thousands of
miles of new roads are being con-
structed or old highways are being re-
paired in territories Astounding in nat
ural game cover. The destruction Of
game results not so much from the
fact that these roads make IL EASIER
FOR sportsmen to get to and from
hunting grounds as from the fact that
thousands of foreigners are employed
In h road construction or reconstruct
ton work and that they depend to a
large extent on wild birds and animals
for their food. They pay no regard
to game laws; in fact they cannot in
many instances speak or read the
English language and are not aware
that such laws exist. II makes no diff
ference to them what kind OF birds or
animals they kill nor how they kill
them, 80 long as they don't waste am
munition. Quail. grouse. %pheasants
and rabbits fall before their guns in
season and out. Birds are killed as
o rule on the ground, an act which
any true sportsman would be ASHAMED
to commit, These foreigners lie In
wait for their game and kill il in cold
blood without giving 1t a chance, Nor
do they coniine the slaughter TO game
birds and animals alone. Robins and
other song birds with "A havoring of
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their opinion, Go into the road build
ing districts and see what constitutes
n foreign workers. potpic.
inasmuch as all tho laws which
have been enacted in the past ten on
fifteen years have proved inadequate
for the protection of game, American
sportsmen are turning to a new
method and are endeavoring TO re-