. Game as a national resource . tivorous birds, without the aid of which authorities assert that agriculturewould be impossible, has not been taken into consideration. * * * Thefigures do not include the returns from private preserves in the form of arti-ficial ponds and deer parks. * * * Most of these preserves make unproductivehind valuable and indirectly raise the value of adjacent property. * ::: GAME AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE. 15 It is safe to say that 20,000 clucks are annually killed in Vermont. Whilethere is no lawful market for them, domesticated mallards in the New Yorkmarket are worth
. Game as a national resource . tivorous birds, without the aid of which authorities assert that agriculturewould be impossible, has not been taken into consideration. * * * Thefigures do not include the returns from private preserves in the form of arti-ficial ponds and deer parks. * * * Most of these preserves make unproductivehind valuable and indirectly raise the value of adjacent property. * ::: GAME AS A NATIONAL RESOURCE. 15 It is safe to say that 20,000 clucks are annually killed in Vermont. Whilethere is no lawful market for them, domesticated mallards in the New Yorkmarket are worth per pair $3 and up, but to be conservative these birds arefigured at $2 per pair, making the value of the seasons bag $20,000, or anannual dividend at 4 per cent on $500,000. \ LIMITATIONS ON EXCESSIVE HUNTING. BIG GAME AND QUAIL. The results of excessive hunting, and particularly hunting formarket, are now beginning to be felt in several sections of the countrywhich have been settled for a long time or in which agriculture has. EZ2 No huntingEH!] Bucks only1 .) Bucks one/ does Fig. 1.—Deer hunting in the United States in 1920. In 15 States (shaded area) hunt-ing was prohibited; in the 33 States which permitted hunting, 17 protected does(dotted area). been highly developed. This is most apparent in the case of biggame and quail, the hunting of which is not at present possible in anumber of States. Fifteen States were closed to deer hunting in1920, as follows: Connecticut, Khode Island, Delaware, Maryland, andWest Virginia in the East; and Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee,Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota inthe Middle West. In Delaware, Ohio, and Indiana deer have beenexterminated for some years; in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, and Mary-land they are nearly gone; in Connecticut they were abundant severalyears ago, but under a law enacted in 1915, allowing the use of shot-guns in killing deer injuring crops, several thousand were destroyedand the speci
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