Arizona republican., 1917-12-08
ARDEN GAME FARM
 IF SCHILLING IS
 REFUGE IF DUCKS

How would you like to entertain 5000 visitors al time, especially when they bounce down upon you uninvited and unannounced and after they have par taken of your hospitality and with full stomachs, to leave you just as uncere- moniously, without even as much as a thank-you or a good-by to show their appreciation of your kindness?
 This is what happns frequently at Arden Game Farm located near New ark. midway between San Francisco and San Jose, on the east side of San Francisco bay The visitors are wild ducks, whirnng and futtering in nocks that sometimes darken the sun, all seemingly imbued with one idea to get food without danger to their ,safety.
 All Sorts of Ducks
 lt does not take a wild duck long Go find out a good feeding ground ! and when that feeding ground is a | intelligence to come again. He does uften-at Arden Game Farm Some l times he is a canvasback. sometimes % ! mallard. sometimes a spris. You will 1 find every variety, the kind that makes | a sportsman's mouth water summing | anu tdGkllUA dh AIutD ATdlllt Y tll ILL ! Not all of them are wild ducks; thous- l ands and thousands of them are tame, | having been matched and raised in this | strange breeding ground Only the Nis itors retain their original nature, they come and go at will, getting the same feed as the flocks of tame birds under the care of very experienced game keeper The owners of the game farm are not playing the hosts to thousands of the winged denizens of the skies out of sheer ldndliness. They cannot help themselves. The wild ducks realize that here is a snap indeed. When the mood for departure seiZes them they take to wing, going north, south, east or west. as their fancy dictates. The tame wild ducks, the product Of the same farm rarely stray from their habitat. Good living free Of charge or obligation acts as an influence which breaks down their migratory hcredi- tary tendencies.
 Schilling Pounds Farm
 August Schlliug of A. SchIllng Co.,, San Francisco, is the founder of the Arden Game Farm. While he is in terested generally in the subject of wild game he believes there is a more serious aspect and purpose in the de- Velopment of wild game as new source of food supply; and to this end he is devoting a considerable portion of his time at the Arden Game Farm, in which enterprise he has already in vested no little money.
 With this larger and more practical idea in mind, Schilling is experiment. ing with the presented day problem of living. If he solves it, he will point tho way for new source of food sup ply which will give sustenance to hun dreds of thousands whose tables have never known the present prohibtiye cnjoyments of wild duck meal Should this experiment succeed the wild duck will be the cheapest of fowls purchasable in the open market the year round. The Game Commission of California is giving the movement it's hearty support. Most of the birds have been matched from eggs inn ported from other states. They are fed scientifically with a close figuring on costs. As much attention is given to the regulation of the cost of feeding as to the rearing and propagation of the birds themselves.
 Originally started as an experiment two years ago. the project has taken on q new significance in the mind of Mir. Schilling, who proposes 10 prove the fact that the wild duck may be raised in large marketable quantities. The benefit of his findings will be spread broadcast and turned over to JUG hONN nlAlNliA ANl eAIN AoN AtAtAA llll b iN be made of them for the establishment of similar farms in all parts of the country.
 When interviewed by a reporter at Inc game farm at Newark, Mir. Schil- ling said:
 There is no longer any question as to the practicability of raising wild ducks in large quantities. Originally 1 had in mind the establishment of at- tractive duck ponds for sporting pur- poses l had occasion at various times to note the habits of the birds and saw that they would readily come again and again to feeding grounds that were thoroughly safe from molestatton The shortage Of food supplies on ac- count of present conditions suggested the possibility of raising large quan- titles of wild game for general con sumption. l knew that if the expert mcnt was to be conducted properly, tho question of cost of feeding must be pri- marily determined. so l made every provision for the attainment of scien- tific and systematic data in that re- gard The present high costs of al classes of food make it very difficult to arrive at permanent calculations and 1t will therefore call for additiOna time to prove or disprove the practl cability of the idea.
 The theory is that the soil and eli
 
 water will produce feed so choaply with the birds attending to the har Vesting, that ducks can be cheapl raised in large quantities and sold t' the general public at very low prices
 As soon as the data which has beer collected can be reduced to logical con Clusions the information will be givel out in a report. If through this eXper iment a new general soure of econom ical food supply can be cduced, l thinl great good will be served
 One of Many Projects
 This is but one of the many project occupying Mir. Schilling's mind. Mos of them are concerned with the econ omies of living, and call for importan changes in present economic systems His findings are always based on cX haustive experimentation and investi gation, and in this present venture h is working along the same systemati lines. The result of his present labo may bring the succulent mallard an sprig to the table of the poor man, an pull the birds of the sky down to cart out of the luxury class.
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