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AEROPLANE HUNTING IN WILDS Farming the Worlds Waste in Remote Corners by Flying1 Machines The barren lands of Canada comprise all that enormous stretch of country which lies north of civilization right up to the Arctic Ocean OceanOver Over the whole of it graze vast herds of caribou or reindeer which are estimated to number any ¬ where between twenty and fifty million millionThough Though a rather small animal a caribou weighs about a hundred pounds and its flesh is much bet ¬ ter than l est Scotch venison A number are killed for meat by trappers and Indians but not one is shot for a hundred pulled down by wolves or wild dogs It is the idea of J B Harkin commissioner of Dominion parks to relieve the present meat shortage by rounding up the caribou on the shores of Hudson Bay slaughtering as many bucks as is thought good and releasing the does doesThe The work would be done by airmen They would round up the herds and at tiie same time shoot down with their machine guns the wolves and wild dogs The process could be repeated each year with the result that the barrens would supply food for nil immense number of people and return a large profit If only 100000 bucks were killed yearly they would sell for nearly half a million millionBut But if the North American barrens can be utilized in this way why not the Asiatic also The vast areas of Siberia cover over two million square miles and would provide food for countless caribou As for ninsk oxen they will live and thrive still farther north than reindeer and are already to I e found on some of the almost unknown islands far up in the Arctic ArcticThere There are other wild regions that could be similar ¬ ly farmed The teeming millions of game that cov ¬ ered the South African veldt fifty years ago are irretrievably lost but the British authorities are protecting game in other parts of Africa AfricaThe The enormous grassy plains which lie between the towering peaks of Kenia and Kilmanjaro have double the game they had twenty years ago Iftit they also have three times the number of lions Airmen however can if necessary shoot down the lions All this farming of the wild would have been impossible a dozen years ago It is the coming of the aeroplane which has made it a practical projio sition The time will come whrn the wild places of the earth will be great international preserves over which will move aeroplanes worked in regular pa ¬ trols Tln airmen gamekeepers will keep constant watch on the grazing herds spying out both four footed and twolegged poachers and once a year join for the great annual roundup
