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Show PERMANENT ELKS' FEEDING ) GROUND IS ADVOCATED j Chicago. Jan, 25 William E, Cur- J tis in an article under a Washington date in today's Record-Herald, advo-' cates fencing off certain portions of 1 the national forests outside of Yei-1 lowstone park, as refuges for game. ; "There is," vayb he, "a herd of 25,000' . elk in the Yellowstone park and tho I forest adjoining it in northern Wyo- j ' ining. General Young, who has been , ' superintendent of Yellowstone park ' for several years, says that hunters , have estimated the herd as high as 40.000 head. They spend the sum-j j mer In the Yellowstone park, and. as i I winter approaches, move southward' J to a lower altitude to find grazing, j They can stand any amount of cold ( if they can get food. 1 . T. S. Palmer, chief of division of Igame preservation, department of agriculture, ag-riculture, isaya that several thousand |