Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
Sa7ing Sport.
Continued from Eleventh. Page

It gives a man the opportunity for exercise
in the most bracing months of the year, and
day with dog and gun is about as pleasant
as anything man can experience.
But an entirely new attitude must grow up
among sportsmen, most of whom expect the
State to provide them with game. AS owners
of fields become aware of the economic value
of the game within the confines of their
properties, the hunters will find that their
hunting grounds are limited to the preserves
of the State.
"They will have to join hunting clubs and
spend whatever money is necessary to insure
themselves a season of good sport
Sooner or later it will be discovered that
the economics of bird hunting are twisted,
and the hunters will be up against it for hunt
ing grounds unless they anticipate the change.
Regardless of the present shortage of game
and the difficulty of maintaining wild life with
insufficient personnel engaged in this work.
a man in New Jersey can obtain license for
$1.65 which permits him to shoot two pheasants
day for 80 days.
I'm stocking the preserve those birds east
the State 1925 each. There is no fairness
in such an economic disparity between what
the sportsman pays and what the game costs
when the institute first opened its school
and posted its grounds with notices against
trespass, the farmers, who suspicious OF
strangers and city people, looked down upon
it as scheme to hurt them. In their anger
they organized to make what they thought was
return thrust against US. They also posted
their grounds.
The result was that they had more game
this year than ever before and they have begun
to understand that man has valuable property
rights in game which he Is entitled to protect
Promiscuous shooting of game on other
peoples property, without payment permis-
sion is gradually disappearing. with this de-
velopment will come an increase in hunting
clubs and the demand for professional game
breeders to man them and keep the preserves
stocked
Game is really an agricultural crop and re-
quires the same kind of research and inveSti-
cation that has put the propagation of cereals
vegetables and fruits on the map.
SCT>HE agricultural schools have acknowledged
the Importance of building up a science
of game breeding, but individual States and
schools have not felt the imperative need or
such course.
trail In what Is almost an uncharted wilder
ness. Our first students are not only absorbing
the practical knowledge already available but
through their study and experiments they, win
be the pioneers In this new profession.
'The work is hard and often seems monoto-
nous. 1t means being on the job in the school
for nearly every one of the 365 days during
the year. A man must have the soul of o
sportsman, love for the open and leaning
toward agriculture.
With these inclinations he has a great
chance in an entirely new profession where
there will be no overcrowding for long time
to come and in which there Is opportunity for
a healthy, constructive life.
Either as sport business, game breed
ing is one of the most interesting and fasci-
mating occupations for both mind and muscle"