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...Congress set aside more wilderness areas, furnish one game warden for each national forest. Senator Walcott of Connecticut, the Committee's chairman, is himself a keen gunner and fisherman. With his two sons and four setters he shoots the fat quail of Virginia and South Carolina when he can get away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped...
Rain and snow sifted down into the South last week. Through the rolling country around Holly Springs, Miss., the going was slow for bird dogs. The quail lay close and where they had fed out of cover the scent was washed away. Yet 27 coveys were found and Proctor, Wood-leigh's Roxie, Muscle Shoals Sam, Stoney Grove Bonny stood out well in the U. S. Field Trial Club's all-age stake-prelude to the national championships. this week on Hobart Ames's plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. Winner was Rex's Tarheelia, liver-&-white...
...game than any other agency by making game a secondary farm crop. Six years of compensating game-wise farmers in Texas, for example, have increased good shooting preserves to 2,500,000 acres. They recommended that the farmer be protected from lawless hunters, be amply rewarded for his work.* Quail, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, rabbits, squirrels all thrive on the farmer's cultivated land. Other game lives better in forests, wildernesses, land which is cheap enough to be maintained as public hunting grounds. The committee advised that public ownership of these lands be extended as fast as possible, that Game...
...test his theory, Mr. Knapp tried raising ducks himself on Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier...
...calloused, potato-masher snouts of pigs probe the earth of southern France, bring up $15,000,000 worth of truffles for the omelets, canapes, sauces, poultry dressings of world gourmets. No ordinary packing house pigs are these animals. They are usually as well trained, as highly esteemed as good quail dogs or fox hounds...