. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 138 Canadian Forestry Journal. advocates of federal legislation for protection of|birds during migration have good arguments to advance and the subject is worth consideration. Our land owners have the right under Section 7 of the Saskatchewan Game Ordinance to prohibit shooting upon their enclosed or cultivated lands, and they might with advantage exercise their right and themselves protect the game upon their farms from destruction by vermin or vagaVjoiid. Reserves. Native birds and other game- should, because of hardine
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 138 Canadian Forestry Journal. advocates of federal legislation for protection of|birds during migration have good arguments to advance and the subject is worth consideration. Our land owners have the right under Section 7 of the Saskatchewan Game Ordinance to prohibit shooting upon their enclosed or cultivated lands, and they might with advantage exercise their right and themselves protect the game upon their farms from destruction by vermin or vagaVjoiid. Reserves. Native birds and other game- should, because of hardiness and suit- ability to the climate, prove more profit- able to raise than tender introduced forms, and a wide market could be found for game after it had served the purpose of furnishing the sportsmen with the pleasure of the chase. The dual purpose wild game may yet prove very profitable by the combination of sporting and market \'alue, and game be available for the tables of the people for years to. PliOto by II. K. MacMillftn The above cut of a moose, made from a photograph taken on the Riding Mountain Forest Reservei gives some idea of the possibilities of that reserve as a game preserve. Lands unsuitable for cultivation in settled communities might with ad- vantage be reserved and stocked with birds from the larger reserves after some planting of trees and shrubs had been done. Wild lands might well be leased to clubs or syndicates that would put a game keeper or keepers on the land to protect and propagate game. The escapes from such game preserves would help stock the surrounding country. I see no reason why experiments in the propagation of game should not be conducted by the Government on Forest come. Deer farming has been the sub- ject of one bulletin issued by the Wash- ington Government which is well wcirth reading. Aside, however, from anything in the way of experimental work the Forest Reserves might be made serve the very good purposes of refuges and breeding gr
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