. The importance of bird life; a popular account of its economic significance and conservation . Courtesy of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association A VIEW OF THE REARING FIELD ON THE VIRGINIA STATE QUAIL FARM. Courtesy of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association A FLOCK OF BOB-WHITES AND THEIR BANTAM MOTHER A CONSERVATION SKETCH 297 efforts of this magazine, 6468 wild-life sanc-tuaries had been established! Inhabitants offorty-two States had responded, and, in all, 2,290,-997 acres had been set aside for this purpose! While state and private refuges serve the
. The importance of bird life; a popular account of its economic significance and conservation . Courtesy of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association A VIEW OF THE REARING FIELD ON THE VIRGINIA STATE QUAIL FARM. Courtesy of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association A FLOCK OF BOB-WHITES AND THEIR BANTAM MOTHER A CONSERVATION SKETCH 297 efforts of this magazine, 6468 wild-life sanc-tuaries had been established! Inhabitants offorty-two States had responded, and, in all, 2,290,-997 acres had been set aside for this purpose! While state and private refuges serve the pur-pose of protecting game-birds and others, and en-able them to breed in comparative safety, theycan be of little value if there are no birds thereto breed. This too often is the case. The gamehas been extirpated from that locality in yearspast by over-eager gunners. Therefore a numberof States have established game-farms for re-stocking these barren places and for supplyingtheir constituents with birds for common are also a number of professional gamebreeders who supply material for private pre-serves and sanctuaries either privately or publiclyowned. There are, in New York, three state game-farms, the
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