NATION’S BUSINESS for February, 1931 BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY The Association idea is to preserve only basic breeding stock. Bags would be unlimited the seasons,’ “Reduce the bag limit,” and such ineffective meas- sures. They bred and released game birds, and then still more. They killed off the vermin. They don’t set bag limits, but landowners are too intelligent to permit encroachment upon basic PUBLISHERS PHOTO SERVICE breeding necessities. If you lease a moor in Scotland and go there to shoot grouse you pay according to the number of birds you will be permitted to kill in the season. If the land can stand it, you may be allowed 5,000. Or it may be We have passed more game laws than any other nation only 500. The gamekeepers know down to the bird just what can be done. You can shoot your 5,000 or your 500 in ten days or every year for shooting privileges. In addition to that sum, hunters who go to Scotland for grouse must spend ten times that amount there annually. Think what such funds would mean to our farmers. Some people have estimated that it would produce 300 in one day, as you like. But when you have shot your quota you are through. Not another bird are you allowed to kill. But there is no idea of preserving anything but the basic breeding stock. They believe over there that game birds were meant for man. When a shooting party kills 1,000 or so they can’t eat them all, of course. So they send them to the market, at poultry prices. In Scotland alone ten million dollars is paid to the landholders million dollars ing privileges Mr. Knapp believes that the way to increase game is to commercialize a year in shootalone. Personally, I think a shooting industry can be built up totaling a half billion a year. So we organized the Founda- tion. Here’s a partial list of the