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Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949
Subjects: Game protection
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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artificial. Theformer were reclaimed by putting in small stonedams where the weather of years had destroyed thehandicraft of pioneer lumbermen. The latter arestreams dammed at points where narrow breaks inthe ground permitted of short, inexpensive timberand earth structures. Between two and three thousand black ducksdrop into the home pond each fall and remain untillate December before going farther south; and eachfall and spring, from forty to fifty wild Canadageese stay with our geese several days, for food. Asnow goose caught in a fish net on Long IslandSound last fall, and sent to us after being wing-clipped, has become perfectly tame, and is nowflying about as naturally as she did in the wildstate. A wing-tipped cackling goose, wounded atHorn Point, Virginia, near Currituck Sound (theonly record of this bird on the Atlantic coast), wasbrought to the preserve in January, 1913, andliberated. The broken wing soon healed, allowingher to fly perfectly, and this bird has twice declined
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coa. be P beC a 3 o PRIVATE GAME PRESERVES 219 to migrate with the larger wild flock. She hasmated with a Hutchins gander, and has succeededwith her charms in enticing a Canadian ganderfrom his mate, to whom he had been faithful foreight years! We have liberated between 800 and 1,000 ring-necked pheasants of our own raising each season,and now expect to raise from 1,500 to 2,000 graymallards every season, for the market. Graymallards bring in the market from $3 to $3.50 perpair and it costs from 75 cents to $1 to bring amallard to maturity. The eggs sell at from $15to $20 per hundred. Pheasants are much more difficult to raise thanducks, but enough could be sold each year todecrease materially the cost of running the pre-serve, provided the law of the state in which thebirds are raised permits the sale of hand-rearedgame. The New York state law is excellent in thisrespect, and other states should allow the sale ofhand-reared game, in order to encourage theirincrease by artificial meth

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