CoPY 
                   Commonwealth of Virginia 
 
           Commission of G"me and Inland Fisheries 
                      Richmond, Virginia 
 
 
 
                      August 39, 1930. 
 
 
 Ron. Carlos Avery, President* 
 American Game Protective Assn., 
 Woolworth Bldg. 233 Broadway, 
 New York City. 
 Dear Carlos: 
 
 I note the michigan plan in your bulletin of September let. I have 
 had a plan in my mind for sometime which I believe would work well, 
 via, in each country community the landowners or farmers form an 
 association calling it by some nase which may be determined by them. 
 Each landowner in this association to agree not to let any person 
 except the members of his family residing thereon hunt or fish or 
 trap on his property unless said person has an official permit is- 
 sued by the secretary of the association. The plan would provide 
 that to hunt over this preserve a fee of say two or three dollars 
 be charged per day; this money to be covered into the treasury of 
 the association and divided in proportion to the number of acres 
 of each landowner. Were such farmer game preserve associations 
 created, it would mean the landowners would take a real interest 
 in increasing the game by providing feed and cover for it and too 
 they would not permit hunters to kill the breeding stock down too 
 closely in any one season because if they did, their preserve would 
 be shot out and they would lose the hunters' trade. I am convinoed 
 that until our landowners (small farmers) are awakened to the 
 tary valug of the wild life on their lands and are shown how tey 
 can reaize on their game crop Just as any other product of the farm 
by proper management, we are not going to see any increase in our game 
supply. 
 
Free hunting eventually means no bunting. It costs time and money 
to properly oare for game. The landowners living upon their property 
are in the best position to raise game naturally and to see proper 
care is given it. If they can be shown its value and how it can be 
turned into money which will go in their pockets, they will begin to 
figure on their game crop Just as they do on their other crops and 
since the demand for more and better shooting is increasing steadily, 
this is one crop which will never become a glut on the market. 
                       Very truly yours, 
 
                       M. D. Hart, 
mdh;j                  Executive Secretary.