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Excerpt from The Game Breeder, Vol. 11: April, 1917 The reason why the farmers and sportsmen have done little or nothing to restore the birds and to keep them plentiful may be found in the game laws, which, it has been well said, tend to protect the game off the face of the earth. How can we expect a farmer to devote any of the land needed for cover and food to the grouse if the laws prevent his selling a bird or its eggs and even prohibit his having a grouse for dinner. Sportsmen, of course, will not rent the land and plant the covers and foods essential to the birds' existence so long as they are prevented from shooting or eating a bird. It is fortunate that the laws have been amended in many states so that profitable grouse breeding is no longer a criminal offense and we may expect a rapid increase in the num ber of the birds in the fields and in the markets as soon as the people realize what they can do and learn how to do it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.