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4 THE GAME BREEDER . CONTENTS an
Survey of the Field _ New Places— Plans of the Game Conservation Society _Near-Sighted Profit-_Good Work—Pratt Arrests Huntersoe More Singers — Quail Saving — Propagation of Reindeer in Alaska — Carl W. Gross. : he “ )
A Week End at Waterlily . - = = - |) "By eQteueeeme The Scarboro Beach Game Farm - - - we Illustrated How I Raise Pheasants - - - - : Mrs. S. S. Hirsch | Notes from the Game Farms and Preserves - : By Our Readers
Scarecrows—_Game and Egg Prices__Game Enemies__Wild Geese Profitable__Foster Mothers—The Real Thing.
Notes from The State Game Departments - - By State Officers
Game Breeding in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Delaware, Alabama, _ ‘a
Vermont, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maine.
Editorials — Arthur A. Hill— Closed Seasons — Outings and Innings — Trade Notes, Etc.
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VOLUME XII
OCTOBER, 1917
NUMBER 13
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New Places.
We had expected in this issue to an- - nounce the organization of several big shoots and two new big game: farms
where thousands of birds will be reared.
There has been considerable delay, as there usually is, we are informed. It takes time to decide upon a location when many desirable properties are of- fered and the selection of game keepers is often a problem requiring some con- sideration. One or two big shoots which were about to be organized when war was declared have been deferred because _ the organizers seemed to think it not timely to start a big sporting proposition. We have insisted that considered as food producing plants there could be no objection to preserves where the shoot- ing is lively, provided they be started by those rejected for military duty. Plans of the Game Conservation Society.
The society has plans for many inter- esting and practical experiments during the coming breeding season. The ship- ping of one day old birds again will be undertaken. There will be far more prizes of live game next year for those who write the best stories about breed- ing. The society will probably under- take some important breeding experi- ments with grouse and the more difficult wild fowl.
Near-Sighted Profit.
Due to the scarcity of and demand for all kinds of meat, the price of live stock is at present abnormally high. The farmer naturally wants to sell all he can
SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
at these figures, and it is not to be won- dered at that he is sorély tempted to sell his old or breeding stock as well at these figures. It is true that they will bring a good price, yet, unless others as good or better are on hand to replace them, this procedure is bad indeed.
Instead of selling off breeding stock, the opposite plan should be followed wherever possible—the increasing of ~ breeders. The American live stock in- dustry must not only be maintained, but it must be built up. Kill the mature stock and the industry is crippled. With the breeders killed, production is cut off and future farm profits from these ani- mals _ lost.
The breeding animals on the farm are essential and must be considered as part of the permanent investment. Save these to earn future profits, and to preserve and insure our domestic meat supply.
“Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.”—Vertical Farming Maga- zine. Our advice is, breed game abundantly.
Good Work. The subscriptions to The Game Breeder keep up surprisingly well. We
are pleased to have members who are starting for the war write us to keep sending the magazine. Often new sub- scriptions are sent by members of the society who wish to interest their friends in our work. It is not unusual for a member to send two and even five dol- lars with the request that we send the magazine to those named in the letter.
Every cent received is promptly ex- pended in extending the work of the
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society. The industry is now strong on its feet and growing stronger. Some members write suggesting that we should charge $2.00 instead of $1.00 for the magazine, but we would much prefer to charge 50 cents, if that were possible, in order to extend the work of the society more widely and to teach more sportsmen that easily they can have good shooting during long open seasons at small expense, and they should work hand in hand with the commercial breed-
ers and the farmers in order to see that:
the people have plenty of game to eat.
Always send us some names of likely people when writing to The Game Breeder and we will promptly send them sample copies. We appreciate the help of our readers and hope soon to be able to give them more for their money.
Pratt Arrests Hunters.
Saranac Lake, N. Y., Sept. 27.—While making an inspection of timber land on. a canoeing trip to-day, George D. Pratt, State Conservation Commissioner, personally took into custody two hunters who had no licenses and who had shot partridges out of season.
The action of the commissioner is proper and praiseworthy ; in striking con- trast to the work of some of his war- dens who raided small breeders, seized their stock birds and had them fined because they procured their eggs and birds before they procured their licenses. We are strongly in favor of the exe- cution of game laws. Gunners should not shoot out of season and should have their licenses. Game breeders, also, in states which require licenses, should pro- cure them; but when they apply in good
faith and pay for their licenses they .
should not be raided and fined because they innocently procured their eggs or stock birds before they were aware that they must pay a license fee for produc- ing food.
We have heard that enemies of field sports| and game breeding take pleasure in saying that we are opposed to game laws. We are not. We simply are op-
posed to unnecessary arrests of breeders —
by ignorant wardens who learn that the breeders have eggs and birds when they apply and pay for their license.
If the department of conservation will
give more publicity to the laws regulat- ing game breeding there should be no. mistakes and no arrests of innocent per- sons .who ask: for licenses. R
More Singers. he
There seems to be a disposition to put the prairie grouse and sharpé+tailed grouse on the song bird list in some of the western states, and to also prohibit quail shooting. The industrious more- game-law enthusiasts find it more and more difficult to make any progress in New England and in the southern states. They failed to close the shoot- ing on Long Island, N. Y., and seem to have been driven far beyond the Mis-— sissippi: We doubt if they will be able to prevent the breeding of quail and grouse much longer, but breeders are warned to be on their guard everywhere.
Quail Saving.
If any sportsman wants to save quail in winter here is a practical way to do it, according to the Biological Survey:
Build low hutches with roofs that will keep out snow or make wigwam-like stacks of grain sheaves with openings below. Keep the entrances free from snow and scatter within cracked corn or small grains or seeds.
Putting out food on a bare spot or ground is an easier method, but not so useful:—PrETER P. CARNEY.
We would suggest that with the corn or other grain an abundance of grit should be supplied. Birds which have grain in abundance when the snow covers the ground must have grit.
The shelters should have many open- ings, or avenues of escape, since when an enemy comes in at one door they should be able to get out quickly at an- other.
A Food Nuisance.
It seems to The Sportsman that the high cost of living could be materially reduced in the Eastern Oregon coun- try. There is good meat running around wild in that part of Oregon in the form of jack rabbits, and so superabundant that the natives declare them to be a nuisance.
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Reindeer Going to Water.
PROPAGATION OF REINDEER IN ALASKA.
By Cart W. Gross.
The price of beef and lamb can do all the soaring they want to. Ina very few years we will be eating reindeer meat, anyway, so what’s the use of crying if the price of the other stock breaks the skylights. Reindeer meat is just as lus- cious, if not more so, and certainly as nourishing as beef or lamb. To keep the Eskimos out of mischief, the govern- ment brought 170 reindeer from Siberia to Alaska in 1893 and today there are approximately 85,000 up there. They are not being killed off right and left, either. Uncle Sam won’t stand for that. He wants them to breed in great num- bers before that is done, so a large sup- ply will always be on hand. Experts estimate that there is room for at least ten million in Alaska under present con- ditions. By present conditions I mean that if nothing special is planted for them, there is enough wild moss for that many to feed on, while if scientific means of propagation and agriculture are ém- ployed, ways and means will be found for millions more.
The introduction and growth of this reindeer business is remarkable as well as romantic. It grew out from the idea to investigate the Eskimo of the region north of the Aleutian Islands, as nothing was known of their conditions up to 1890. Therefore in this year Dr. Sheldon Jackson, general agent of edu- cation in Alaska, together with Capt. M.
A. Healy cruised the Arctic Ocean and in the Bering Sea, visiting all the prin- cipal settlements on both the Alaskan and Siberian shores. They discovered that the natives of Siberia were happy and well to do, while the Eskimos of this section of Alaska were unhappy and half starved because all they had to live on were whale, seal and walrus, which they had a hard time to catch. The reason for the Siberian’s prosperity was reindeer. Both sides of the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean had the same climate and soil. From these reindeer the Siberian natives had flesh and milk for food, the skin provided clothing and bedding and they could also be used as carriers from one village to another. Both thought the government should therefore introduce reindeer in Alaska.
Dr. Jackson brought this matter before the Commissioner of Education in 1890. It was endorsed by him and brought be- fore Congress. Pending the congres- sional appropriation, Dr. Jackson brought the matter before churches and public societies. In this manner he raised $2,146, with which he bought sixteen reindeer in Siberia and transported them to Alaska. These never entered the rein- deer industry, however, because they were all males. The next year a few more were imported and in 1893, Con- gress, realizing the importance of the movement, appropriated six thousand
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dollars with which to continue the good work. Since then Congress has spent ' over $325,000 and has bought only 1,280, as the Russian government withdrew its permit in 1902. And from these few we now have 85,000. How many. will we have in twenty-five years, especially when each herd doubles naturally every three years? The idea of teaching the Eskimo did not meet universal approval for the first four or five years, because some authorities claimed it was impes- sible to turn the attention of a nomadic race of fishermen and hunters to an in- dustry that would tend towards ehuga: tion and settlement.
In order to give the natives the best training possible as future reindeer herders, the government brought a num- ber of herders over from Lapland to teach them. They were not only given good pay, but were allowed to keep a certain number of the animals for their own use. They are now the only ones in Alaska who are allowed to sell the reindeer to others than natives. On this point I will dwell later. As many pre- dicted, it was hard to train the Eskimos to become herders, but a way to train and interest them was soon discovered. In 1897 a rescue party was sent to Point Barrow to relieve a shipwrecked party.
This party included W. T. Lopp, now in full charge of the government schools of Alaska, and as the relief party was carried to their destination on sleighs, pulled by reindeer, and as those relieved were fed on reindeer meat, the value of this animal was brought home with great force. Consequently when the party returned more thought was given the question, and Mr. Lopp suggested that the young men of the Eskimo tribes should be trained as herders, as in this way they would become accustomed to -the life and would not be nomads as their elders tended to be. The young men were taught herding reindeer, to- gether with their other studies under the direction of the educational bureau.
In order to further encourage the prop- -agation, small herds were loaned to mis- sions for about five years, with the un- derstanding that they would train the
natives and that at the end of this period the number loaned would be returned. Usually 25 males and 75 females were
loaned. The missions were allowed to ‘keep the increase.
During the first fif- teen years of the enterprise the length of term of apprentices and manner of teaching, as well as selecting those who were to be taught herding, varied. In 1907 a definite code of rules and regula- tions were adopted and approved by the Department of.the Interior. According
to these rules the apprenticeship lasts _
for four years and if at the end of the first year the native has been faithful in his work he. receives four females and two males for a present. At the end of the second year he receives five females and three males. At the end of the third year he is given six females and four males, and at the end of his fourth year he is given the same num- ber. Thus at the termination of the Eskimo’s contract of apprenticeship he has been given 34 reindeer; from some he has already had fawns. The total
“usually is 40 to 60. At this, time the.
district superintendent gives him a cer- tificate and he becomes a herder and assumes entire charge of his own flock. This herder must then agree to train other natives in the same manner as he was trained by the government. He must also reward his charges in the manner - he was rewarded, by giving them rein- deer. Thus an endless chain of train- ing has been established. He need not train another until his herd numbers 150, nor train a second one till he has 250,
nor a third one till he has 300. No one is given a certificate as a herder until | he is at least twenty-one.
With the approval of the local director an apprentice may kill one male each year
‘for food and sell the skin for clothing. They are encouraged to use the males as — sled deer in transporting passengers and ~
mail and freight for which they are paid. —
Under no circumstance is a native per- ; mitted to sell a female except to the gov-
ernment, or with the written approval of the superintendent to another native. This also applies to the missions:
- The | purpose of these strict rules are to insure —
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Alaska Reindeer. ; '
the reindeer industry remaining -in Alaska. After a few years these re- strictions will be removed. At that time they will be found on the menus in many restaurants and on the tables of many homes. The Laplanders who were re- ferred to above may sell their stock to others than natives, but do not care to do so at present. They may sell them because they were given without restric- tions at that time.
The natives have taken very kindly to the industry and respect as well as love the government, as they realize the benefit. Mr. W. C. Shields, superintend- ent of education for the northwestern district, has written as follows: ‘These men have the greatest respect for the government and look to us for direc- tion. To leave the Eskimos to face the commercial development of the industry alone would assure its ruin, as they are not yet ready to stand alone. If the in- dustry were allowed to be sacrificed to the greed of the white man, all effort would have been wasted, as he has al- ways pushed the native to the wall.” We know this has been true in the case of the Indian. The natives are anxious to buy females but few wish to sell. One native has over 1,600 reindeer, worth over $40,000. He is the first “reindeer king.” Others are rapidly learning that their present life is more profitable than the nomadic one of their forefathers. ' They are slowly becoming civilized and at the same time retaining
the good habits they always had. By this I mean they always believed that if a good turn was done to them, they should do likewise to others. For this reason they are willing to teach others the industry. When the American In- dian was “civilized” in a hurry he lost many of his good qualities, as he was not taught in the right way.
This native is taught gradually. He realizes he can have an income with his deer. Last year it was about $100,000, this was exclusive of the value of the meat and hides used by himself. At present the deer are valued at about $25 each. This is a high price because at this rate reindeer meat can not compete with beef, as a dressed reindeer weighs on the average of 150 pounds. Conse- quently after adding the cost of dress- ing, shipping and packing it would cost about twice and in some instances three times that of beef. All this will be done away with when the authorities agree that the time has arrived so that the reindeer industry will be able to stand on its own feet and the natives will be able to sell their stock.
The reindeer is like a cow in that it is gentle and has a tendency to stray away. For this reason bells are placed on them. They also chew cuds and when left alone will feed for a time and then lie down. They are like sheep as they will scatter if suddenly approached. While they give but very little milk, it is very rich and nourishing. The reindeer is a
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perfect beast of burden in the. extreme north, for while with a dog team one must carry food along for the dogs the rein- deer feeds on the moss he finds on the way. In the winter he feeds on moss and in the summer fattens on the grasses and willow foliage. A movement is on foot to obtain a sort of meal for the deer when he is used as a beast of burden in the wintertime, for it is believed he will be able to carry heavier loads and make longer trips when fed something other than wild moss. At present he travels at the rate of 40 miles a day on short voyages and 25 miles on long ones. They carry all the way from 300 to 1,600 pounds on a sleigh. Some one has said they can only travel for five or six days. This is not true as they travel as long as they are well fed. Besides other ani-
mals cannot live only on wild moss, so why should they? See ; But the reindeer industry is only in
its infancy and if the interest of the past.
is carried on it will be a bigger and better industry than the cattle business has been. It will at least be fairer. There will not be. such large, “cattle kings,” if the present high ideals are maintained. The reindeer fairs held every year are bringing new pointers to the front. At these fairs the real interest of all concerned can be seen. And it can, furthermore, be seen that the interest in the industry is increasing. So prepare for reindeer meat. Reindeer meets and fairs are held once a year. Prizes are already given for the best stock, best race and a thousand other best things, including best mittens and babies.
Sled Show, Reindeer Fair. Mary’s Igloo, Alaska.
A WEEK END AT WATERLILY.
By THE EDtIrTor.
I have travelled much from New Eng- land to California in pursuit of game when it was plentiful but for one reason or another I never was able to visit White’s game preserve, Currituck Sound, post-office Waterlily, N. C., until last week. I have long known about it, of course. I had pictured in my mind the broad waters, full of the choicest foods eaten by wild fowl. I knew about the thousands of swans, geese and all the
choice varieties of wild ducks and the
many shore birds which frequent the —
Sound. One of the places I most wished to see was this wonderful game preserve and one of the men I most wished ‘to meet (I have long felt that I knew him
on account of our correspondence) was. —
Mr. J. B. White. Easily I could fill the magazine from cover to cover with the story of my
‘visit, and the entertaining and instruc—
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tive stories told by a man who knows the birds and their foods, not only the waterfowl and the waders but also the
quail which are in the fields back of his.
house and the jacksnipe and other waders which come to the vast marshes on the island and to the other marshes across the Sound where the sand dunes shut out the ocean.
I knew it was too early to see the abundant waterfowl, most of which ar- rive a little later, but I had made up my
mind that the next time I was in North
Carolina I would accept a standing invi- tation to see the preserve and to have a talk with its owner, a man who knows as much as, and probably more, than any one about the wildfowl and their natural foods. ; oa
The trip is made from Norfolk, Va., on a little steamer which leaves at night, running through a canal into the Sound, and arriving about. daybreak in front of Mr. White’s house. Since the chan- nel is some distance from the shore a small motorboat came out to take me off and I knew from the hearty greeting
that it was Mr. White who welcomed me. |
We began a most interesting conver- sation at breakfast and we kept it up for four days.’ When we went out on the Sound Mr. White lifted various foods from the water and told me about them and what the various species of ducks preferred. We rambled ‘in the fields of corn and cotton with a pointer and I saw vast areas of good quail ground, begin- ning at the back door and extending across the island and on the mainland
, beyond as far as the eye can reach. One
day I took a,ramble to see if I could find the first jacksnipe which had arrived on a vast snipe ground at the north end of the island and I can readily imag- ine the good shooting to be had when the meadows and marshes are fully ten- anted by these migrants.
Mr. White knows many prominent sportsmen who have visited him and
many he has met when shooting from
New Brunswick to Florida. Lately he
~~ has furnished large quantities of wild
duck food which has been planted in
ponds and lakes from New England to
Texas. He has many interesting let-
ters and testimonials from sportsmen who have purchased the foods.
The stories of big bags, of wonderful days afield and afloat, of prominent peo- ple, living and dead, including several presidents of the United States, should be written and preserved in a book.
One interesting story was about a live pigeon match attended by some prom- inent men, including the magician Her- man. A bet was made before reaching the ground that the birds to be shot were young (squabs in fact) that could not fly. The birds flew well during the. match, and as they were retrieved by a dog were placed in a basket. Later the birds in the basket were found to be squabs. Just before starting for the ho- tel, however, where some of the birds were to be served, Herman removed the cover and all the birds flew away. He was urged to tell how he did the trick, but said he must decline to do so.
Imagine, my worthy readers, if you can, the enjoyment of spending a week- end with a man who has a wonderful fund of information about game birds and their foods, who has had a wide ex- perience in shooting wildfowl, who has met and shot with a large number of interesting people, and you will appre- ciate the good time I had during my week-end at Waterlily.
If you wish to have a good shoot dur- ing the fall or winter I would advise you to try and arrange a visit to White’s preserve. Unfortunately he only enter- tains a few at a time and you will be fortunate if you can find a time when the bungalow is not fully occupied. One great charm about the place is that on rest days, when shooting on the Sound is prohibited, one can ramble for miles in pursuit of quail or can seek the fes- tive jacksnipe on the splendid snipe ground. I hope to return for the shoot- ing and it may be I can write a proper story about the place and its owner. I doubt much if there is a better shooting ground in America.
Important. Game eating is important since it tends to keep the prices up and to make the people friendly to field sports.
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Large pen for running Mallards, 1 (ee feet long and 300 allards, woodduck,
contains at present nearly 300
SCARBORO BEACH GAME FARM.
It was with much regret that we were obliged to terminate our excursion into New England last summer without get- ting to Scarboro Beach Game Farm. We even were obliged to pass some interest- ing places in Massachusetts, including the State Game Farm on Cape Cod, since some important business in New York required a few days’ attention be- fore we started for the South.
Mr. Bullock, writes in sending the pictures here reproduced that the farm is well equipped to produce many spe- cies of game birds in big numbers. He has many pheasants, mallards, black ducks, teal and other fowl and will in- crease the breeding stock so that he can furnish thousands of eggs and birds young and old.
Mr. Bullock says his pheasants are
Scarboro Beach Game Farm, southerly view, including ~ up and put into movable coops, Io young ringnecks in which might escape,
feet wide, Blue and Green wing teal, and Black duck,
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Note excellent shore for breeding. This pen
in fine shape; all full grown; and that he has a splendid pond for rearing wild fowl. He expects to have plenty of black duck eggs and black ducks. We hope he will and we are sure they will command excellent prices since the black ducks have been found to be difficult birds to handle and some breeders com- plain that they do not get any eggs from them.
The experiments with teal breeding at
rearing field atter young pheasants have been caught each coop, Note trapping coop set to pick up stray birds
Scarboro Beach also will be interesting and if a race of blue-winged or green- winged teal that will lay eggs under con- trol can bedeveloped the birds and their eggs will be very profitable. There is no finer duck for the table than the teal and sportsmen know these ducks are among the fastest birds they shoot.
Fortunately the Maine law contains much common sense, which is lacking in the New York Statute. It is legal in
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Large pheasant pens in the background containing at the present time between three and four hundred birds. Note quail coops, also two small coops with silky Bantam chicks which are being raised for foster mothers for quail.
Maine to experiment with and breed, any of the desirable wild food birds and the State encourages the industry and permits the trapping of the necessary stock birds under proper regulations. Any one who knows the genial, lib-
eral-minded. Henry B. Austin and the other game statesmen of Maine can readily imagine that the nonsense which was put over-in New York making it criminal to produce some foods and not others will never appear in Maine.
Interior of our cook room, All food is cooked or scalded before feeding, Note pans, small pails, dish pans and steamer for use in preparing custarjs and pheasant foods for young chicks. Also large sink for washing and keeping the dishes used in bird rearing clean; this is most necessary.
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PHEASANT RAISING IN EASTERN OREGON.
By Louis KRoEssINn.
To acquaint the readers with the rais- ing of Chinese pheasants, it is necessary
of all, you should be a lover of nature in all its beauty, an admirer of wild game and game birds. You should have the heart of a sportsman, then you can’t help being interested in the king of all game birds—the Chinese pheasant.
The beauty of this bird made me ex- periment with its propagation some eighteen years ago. Although I made many mistakes and met with much dis- couragement in the raising of these birds, I kept at it until I had solved the prob- lem to my entire satisfaction. I have found that it is no more difficult than raising turkeys, and the profits are bet- ter than anything in the poultry line.
There is many a small rancher with an orchard, whose wife and children could make a pretty penny on the side by raising China pheasants, as there is an ever-growing demand for them in the U. S. A. Many, a good check IJ have returned to the sender because I didn’t have the birds to sell. I have made as much as $600 during a season raising pheasants besides my regular occupation, merely for the fun and recreation after business hours.
No extra expense is necessary except a few dollars worth of poultry netting to fence in the grown birds after ween- ing from their foster-mother—the com- mon chicken. No housing or shed is necessary. All you need is a pen with some brush or weeds to shelter them from the blazing sun. They will thrive in all climates, in all kinds of weather, under any kind of conditions, after they are two-thirds grown. That is when they are from ten to twelve weeks old.
They are a hardy bird, and are not afflicted with disease or vermin like chicken. They eat very little and take care of themselves. Any household can
in 24 days.
feed a dozen or two birds from the scraps and waste from the kitchen and table, with a handful of grain at in- tervals. peat:
I will state briefly how the birds are hatched and fed. First I give thirteen eggs to a setting hen. These will hatch Then I take a box 30x30 inches, screen it in front with wire net- ting, place it on a grassy spot, put in the hen and little birds, and let them alone for 24 to 48 hours. It is a good idea to place a board in front of the coop, so the little chicks can’t run away until they know the cluck’s call. After three or four days remove the board, and let the little ones run. They will not leave her then. Under no circumstances let the old hen run with them at large, for she will surely lose them.*
When the birds are 24 to 48 hours old, feed them one part hard boiled egg to two parts wheat bread crumbs. Af- ter they are two or three weeks old give them a little oatmeal or chick feed an gradually feed them grain or anything a chicken eats.
Always have water near the coop for them to drink. It is very important to keep the old hen clean from lice as she will surely transfer them to the young.
When the birds get the size of a quail, they must be put in a pen, otherwise they will stray away.
In 1915 I raised eighty-five birds on a back lot 60x63. Besides the great pleasure I had in Ontario in raising them, they netted me $232 clear profit. —The Oregon Sportsman.
[*It is very common to breed pheasants by the range system in the Eastern States. Dr. Wheeler, when Game Commissioner of IlIli- nois, successfully reared many pheasants in this manner and wrote his experiences for The Game Breeder. Recently we published the story of Mr. Bigelow who estimated the cost of rearing pheasants, running with the hen, at 35 cents each.]}
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HOW I RAISE PHEASANTS. — By Mrs. S. S. Hirscu.
[Our readers will recall the interesting story by Mr. Bigelow,.who wrote in detail how he Mrs. Hirsch says her birds are reared at a cost of only 40 cents each. The present price of pheasants is from $5 to $6 per bird and we predict they _ will sell for more as the breeding season approaches. Hundreds of breeders do not advertise Many do not know the price they can obtain by letting
reared pheasants at a cost of 35 cents.
because they cannot fill their orders.
people know they have pheasants to sell.—Enrtor.]
About ten years ago I became interest- ed in pheasants. I procured some eggs and hatched ten birds from a setting, but, not knowing anything about rearing
The Author,
the young pheasants, I lost them all. I then purchased more eggs, the same sea- son, and managed to save one hen bird and reared it successfully. The follow- ing winter a friend of ours brought me a young male bird from Iowa and I felt very much delighted at having a pair of pheasants which were not related.
The following season I raised only a few young birds, but rapidly I gained experience.. I kept on learning and I soon found the worst enemy of young pheasants is lice., One must be con-
to the bantams which never crush them
stantly on the watch and destroy them with insect powder. I hatch the eggs un- der hens only and at the same time I set bantams so when the large hens, which , can cover twenty-five pheasant eggs, hatch them I can give the young birds
and are very careful mothers.
I feed the young pheasants for the first few days on Spratts food with cot- tage cheese, but very sparingly. I give them their freedom in a wire enclosure where there are plenty of bugs on all the bushes and vegetables, and the lit- tle pheasants love to hide in the straw- berry bushes. I have no further trouble with them after July 1. By being care- ful and watchful I find I can hatch nearly every egg and rear nearly all the birds.
I write only about the ring-necked pheasants. I know from other people’s experiences that the rest of the species of pheasants are somewhat more deli- cate and somewhat harder to rear suc- _ cessfully. In my estimation the ring- — necked cock is the handsomest of all the pheasants. Of course, it requires a lot of perseverance and patience to learn — all about these most interesting birds and q how to rear them successfully. One must — be a lover of animals in order to be suc- _ cessful in rearing any species of the ani- — mal kingdom, but rearing pheasants as I ~ do requires very little expense, outide - of the work, and I have found that one q can eaily rear them for 40 cents per bird for the year’s feeding. The main — expense is only at starting. Wire costs more today than it did a few years ago. — When the young begin flying I enclose them in wire cages, 30 by 30 feet square, to keep dogs and other enemies out. The cages are full of fine young dog-
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rascals.
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wood and various kinds of bushes for shade. scratch in the soil around the bushes for worms.
Later I feed my pheasants like chick- ens. They are no trouble whatsoever ; they are very hardy and live out in the open all winter. We have a small shel- ter for them but we always see them outside of it even in the coldest weather. When the snow is five feet deep we
The young birds love to dig and.
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see them perched up in the high bushes and trees.
I find these pheasants the dearest, most interesting and the most profitable of all the animals on our place. Every one who comes to see us exclaims how beautiful they are.
I am always glad to tell everyone who wishes to raise pheasants inexpensively how to do it and I hope this short article will interest the readers of The Game Breeder.
NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES.
SCARE-CROWS. By D. W. HunNTINGTON.
All game breeders are aware that the crow is their enemy and various means have been adopted to control the black The Remington pump and au- tomatic gun caused) the crows to fly high when they passed over the breeding grounds of the Game Breeders’ Associa- tion, but often at daybreak they visited the duck ponds and rearing fields, se- cured some eggs and young birds in spite of the fact that several game keep- ers were employed.
Traps furnished by the Oneida Com- munity took many crows on the ground and pole traps took many on the nu- merous poles. We also used scare-crows and I am quite sure the scare-crow is useful to supplement the destruction by shooting, trapping and poison, where poi-
_ son is used. I agree with many keepers
that it is best to get along without poison if possible; it seems more sporty, also, to control crows and other game enemies with the traps and the gun and scare- crows.
The scare-crow of various forms used
'by farmers to protect their corn un-
doubtedly can be made to save many eggs and young birds. The crow is a very wise bird and we found, as others have, that he soon discovered that a scare- crow fixed in one place was harmless. Our keepers, therefore, moved the scare-
crow from time to time, sometimes plac- ing the figure flat on the ground in
View in New York City.
the grass as if it were lying in wait for a shot. A good plan is to place the fig- ure in a bush partly concealed, and if a broom-stick painted black and var- nished be placed in its arms to resemble a gun the crows will take more time to investigate the figure on guard near the duck pond or rearing field.
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Crows do the most damage, usually, just at daybreak when they fly low, hunting noiselessly for young birds and eggs. Where the preserve is a large one and a quail preserve where quail are bred wild in many fields a number of scare-crows can be used to advantage and their positions should be changed every few days. Some poles with traps on them placed at a little distance from the scare-crows will invite the crows to their destruction when they alight on them to view the scare-crow.
Dr. Judd, in his excellent bulletins, Forbush and other naturalists have re- ferred to the damage done to game by crows and many readers of The Game Breeder are familiar with the full-page picture of a crow with an egg on its bill which was sent to me by a Massachusetts reader and printed in my book, Our Wild Fowl and Waders, and, later, on the cover of the magazine.
I made the picture of the homely scare- crow, printed above, in a field where quail were breeding within the city limits of New York. It was placed, of course, to protect the crops from the crows, but it no doubt served to protect the quail also. Crows were investigating ‘it at the time the photograph was made.
Game and Egg Prizes.
In January the committee of the Game Guild will award a number of prizes of game birds and eggs to those who have written the best letters to The Game Breeder telling how they rear pheas- ants, ducks, quail, turkey, deer and oth- er game.
All we want is short letters telling just how you do it and if you regard the industry as profitable. All letters received prior to December 31st will be considered by the committee. We are sure you are interested in what other members of the society are doing. They will be interested in what you are do- ing. Please write us how you hatch the eggs, hens or incubators? How you feed the young birds the first few days and later? What vermin you have to contend with? What traps you use?
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Do you use an airedale or other dog? Any special difficulty or matter of in- terest. What does it cost to rear a bird? Do you get good prices? Have you made the shooting good? Write now
before you forget it.- Send letters to
The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau street, New York.
You enjoy, no doubt, reading the ad- vertisements. Others will be glad to read yours and to know that you are engaged in the new and attractive in- dustry. Send in your ad and help the
cause and help make the publication — ‘more interesting. Ps
Game Enemies.
If you wish to know how to trap the foxes and all the other enemies of’ your game write to the Oneida Community, Ltd., Oneida, New York, and ask them to send you The Newhouse Trapper’s Guide. This is an illustrated book on trapping and well worth the price, 25 cents. You can send the quarter in the mail.
The sale,of one pheasant egg will pay the cost of this book and when you know how to control the game enemies
you will save many game birds and —
eggs.
Wild Geese Profitable.
Albert N. Froom, of the New Holland Farms, Inc., New Holland, Hyde Co., N. C., writing about his wild geese says: “T can not at this time offer any guar- anteed old raising pairs, though I may be able to do so later in the season. I ask $5.00 each for wild geese.
Mated pairs that have raised one or more flocks are $35 and they pay big on that valuation. Last fall and winter mated pairs, not guaranteed layers, brought $25. A pair of mated geese with me are often good for 10 to 12 gooslings. I take away the first clutch of eggs and they lay a second, usually
not so many, and I set the first under 4 Part om my birds are wing cut and some are
a large hen or tame goose.
pinioned.
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Foster Mothers.
Game breeders use many thousands of hens for hatching game eggs. The kind of hens used are lightweight barn- ard fowls which are recommended as good sitters and bantams for quail eggs. We are quite sure that poultrymen who can furnish hens suitable for game breed- g will get good returns from adver- tisements in The Game Breeder. It only costs a few cents to tell our read- ers where they can get hens.
Most of the state game departments Teport that all or certain species of game and game fish can now be sold as food. Many report that a proper amendment to the laws permitting breeders to trap birds for propagation purposes has been over- ‘looked. This is the most important mat- ter which now requires the attention of game breeders. There is a shortage of stock birds and all state departments ‘should be authorized to issue permits to game ‘breeders to trap the birds needed for propagation. The triumph of the -more game movement evidently is assured and the details necessary to complete the movement and perfect the new in- _ dustry soon will be worked out, no doubt. “It is gratifying to report that nearly all the state game officers have been con- verted to the idea that their departments should be made of great economic im- portance; that game birds should not be _ placed in the song bird list and that field ‘sports should be perpetuated during long In this and the following issues of The Game Breeder we take pleasure in printing brief reports from he state departments.
Connecticut.
_ The Hon. John M. Crampton reports that is State permits and encourages the breed- ing of all species of game and fish for sale as ‘ood. Licenses are issued to breeders for $2. he game sold is identified by tags and deer markers which are given with the license. Live game cannot be trapped for propaga- ion or scientific purposes.
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The Real Thing.
“Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny, Avery Island, La., in a letter to Chiles & Co. Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, says: “During the late spring you sent me seven duck eggs. From these I raised three young birds, genuine wild mallards. They are in good shape now, and I thought you would be interested to know that they were real wild stock.”
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More Game and Fewer Game Laws.
NOTES FROM THE STATE GAME DEPARTMENTS.
New Hampshire.
Hon. George A. McIntire reports that the breeding of game and game fish is encouraged in New Hampshire under a $2 license issued to breeders. The game is identified by tags. Game can be sold alive for propagation also.
The trapping of stock birds is not permitted.
Delaware.
Hon. Edward G. Bradford, Jr., President of the Delaware Board of Game and Fish Com- missioners writes: “We do not have any game breeding laws; licenses are not issued; in fact, there is much to be done in this State to bring the game and fish laws abreast of the times.”
Alabama.
Hon. Linus Leavens, Fish and Game Com- of Alabama, writes: “You are advised that the game and fish laws of Alabama permit the sale of game fish for food but not the sale of game birds and animals. It is a violation of the laws of this State to sell any species of game, either dead or alive. I wish you un- measured success in the activity of your as- sociation relative to the propagation of game.”
Mr. Wallace is a silver-tongued orator of renown and he is said to be a good all-around politician.
Vermont.
Hon. Linus Tearens, Fish and Game Com- missioner of Vermont, reports:
“The State of Vermont permits under cer- tain conditions, and encourages the breeding of game and game fish. The species that may be sold for food under such conditions are in the statute given as fur-bearing animals, game and fish. The statute defines fur-bear- ing animals as beaver, otter, marten, mink, raccoon, fisher or fisher-cat, fox, skunk and muskrat. It defines game as game quadrupeds and game birds.
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The Game Breeder
PusLisHED MONTHLY
Epitep By DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON
NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1917.
TERMS: 10 Cents a Copy—$1.00 a year in Advance.
Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25.
THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY, INC. PUBLISHERS, 150 NASSAU. ST., NEW YORK
D. W. Huntineton, President, F. R, Peixorro, Treasurer, C. Huntineton, Secrétary.
Telephone, Beekman 3685.
A reader told the editor a few days ago he found the advertisements the most interesting and instructive part of the magazine. We try always to have a little attractive reading matter to go with the ads, but. we are inclined to agree with our reader.
ARTHUR A. HILL.
Members of the Game Conservation Society will read with sorrow the an- nouncement of the death of Arthur A. ‘Hill, vice-president of the society since its incorporation. Mr. Hill was a won- derfully capable man in many fields. He quickly declared in favor of the “more game’ movement at a time when only a few persons in America believed it would be possible to make the country a big game-producing country and the game an important food supply for all of the people. He was a very busy man, the
editor of two successful magazines at
the time of his death, but he found time to act as vice-president of the society and to help on its work in many ways, serving without compensation as all of the officers of the society do. He wrote occasionally for The Game Breeder and upon one occasion, when the editor could not give the publication his attention, he practically brought out a number. A reader promptly wrote to the editor that the number was one of the best ever issued and Mr. Hill was much amused when the writer under the head-
ing, “One on the Editor,” published ied letter and stated that Mr. Hill should have the credit for the number. He worked with great speed and we. often wondered how he could accomplish so much. .
Arthur A. Hill died at his home in
this city Thursday, September 13.
He was born in Greenwich, Massa- chusetts, and -was in his sixty-fourth ear. He at one time owned, controlled and edited The Haverhill Gazette, pub- lished at Haverhill, Massachusetts, giv-— ing to that publication a degree of influ-— ence which it had not previously enjoyed. In 1890 he became managing editor of — the American Press Association, of New York City, leaving that organization for the purpose of making a trip to the Klon- dike gold regions. On his return from — the Klondike he purchased an interest in The North Adams Evening Herald. La- ter on he sold his interest in The Herald, © and became editor of The Blacksmith - and Wheelwright and The Amateur Sportsman, published by the M. T. Rich-— ardson Company. In 1906 he also be- came editor of the Automobile Dealer and Repairer. He was one of the orig- inal members of the New York Press © Club.
In his youth he was conned for a time with the Springfield (Massachu-— setts) Republican, and afterwards con- nected himself with a big publishing and printing concern in New York, to learn the business. Tiring of this, he went to Ohio, and entered Oberlin College, pay- ing his way by work in the local print-— ing office. Before he was 21 he had be- come a reporter on the Cincinnati Ga-_ zette and a compositor on the Chicago/ Times, and for a year a reporter and city editor on the Toledo Democrat and Herald.
At the time of his death Mr. Hill was the editor of the Automobile Deal- er and Repairer, a successful trade paper. :
He was the author of a novel of un- usual nrerit, entitled “What’s He to Me?” published in 1914. 7
He was a man of pronounced opinions, and a forceful writer upon any topic which interested him. He was especially
sympathetic with all economic and wel- fate problems. He. possessed a rare vein of wit and humor, which fairly sparkled ‘at times in his conversation and writings. ‘He formed and maintained warm friend- ‘ships with a large circle of acquaintances. - Members of the Game Conservation ‘Society who attended the last annual ‘meeting and game dinner will remem- ber Mr. Hill as the presiding officer. ‘The cause of practical game conserva- ‘tion has suffered a great loss in the death of Arthur A. Hill. He lived to see the triumph of the movement in which we all’are interested and said that only the details remained to be worked out.
CLOSED SEASONS.
The recent disaster in Ohio, when the ‘quail was placed on the song bird list and shooting was prohibited forever, should be a warning to game protective ‘associations that if they put in most of ‘their time seeking new laws every sea- ‘son field sports are likely to come to an end.
Quail shooting and grouse shooting will go first, since the lands where these ‘birds should be produced are owned by farmers, to a large extent, and the far- ‘mers seem willing to aid those who wish ‘to prohibit shooting.
In Ohio, where the’ claim is made that ‘the intention was only to prohibit quail shooting for an additional term of five years, the fact remains that the best ‘shooting in the state has been. ended forever, unless the Game Conservation “Society shall succeed in having the law repealed or at least to have quail breed- ‘ing for sport and for food made legal. _ In some states quail shooting has been ‘prohibited for many years. In many “states grouse shooting is prohibited and, since the grouse are vanishing this sport -° has ended. In Pennsylvania some “sportsmen wish to try a closed season on woodcock which, no doubt, can be ex- tended for pericds of five and ten years or until the present race of bird dogs comes extinct and it will not be worth while to own setters or pointers.
The local Game Protective Associa- tion which will reorganize as a game-
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shooting club. with small dues and which
will rent the:.shooting on a large num- ber of. farms where there is little .or
.no game and which, for the most part,
are posted against trespassers soon. will produce splendid: sport for its members, and since the boundary will be large and game overflows the quail'and grouse soon will be. found in stubbles where for very good and scientific reasons no birds are seen today.
_ The quail clubs of Long Island, N. Y., quite near the large city which con- tains about one-twentieth of the entire population of the United States, recently defeated the mischief makers who at- tempted to close quail shooting. With very small dues the clubs keep up some very good shooting, not only for them- selves but also for the people who do nothing to preserve game.
Coming to New York from the west, some years. ago, we were surprised to find we could go out and shoot within a few miles of the city. The shooting be- ing fair near the clubs, where the dues are $15 or $20, and better, of course, within the areas where the birds are properly looked after. Since many pre- fer the exciting sport of procuring new game laws every season and contrib- ute liberally to this, there is an abun- dance of land suitable for game and good shooting for all those who prefer shoot- ing. The game protective associations can count safely on the prohibition of quail and grouse shooting or they can reorganize and provide for excellent sport for all hands. The turning down of a few tame pheasants by state game depart- ments most of which, as all naturalists know, are easy marks for hawks and other vermin is not a satisfactory sub- stitute (even when we are permitted to take three cock birds in a season) for the shooting of scores of quail and grouse in a day. We observe the activities of the new protective organizations in the west which can only hope to do what has been done in other-states and we re- gret to see the necessity for the prac- tical prohibition of shooting of native game and the substitution of a very lim- ited number of tame political pheasants.
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In some states the sportsmen are now headed in the right direction, fortunate- ly, and we know where to go when we wish to shoot a few dozen quail in a day, but it is sad to see vast areas be- ing closed to any industry and to any shooting simply because the sportsmen ‘do not realize that game must have some practical protection from its natural en- emies, some food and some covers if any shooting is to be done without cre- ating the alarms at the scarcity which surely result in the prohibition of shooting.
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[We received a number of letters about the mallards on the front cover of the Septem- ber issue. These ducks, the owner says, are straight bred mallards reared from several generations on a game farm.—EniTor.]
W. F. Weary, an Iowa breeder, says: “In regard to the picture of the mallards on the front cover of the September Game Breeder I will say that it is my opinion that they are ‘near mallards, They look a little large and heavy in the breast.
“I enjoy the magazine very much and I heartily agree with you in saying, ‘more game and fewer game laws.’ I believe it would be better for everyone if our state legislatures only met once in six or eight years instead of every two.”
A Good Result.
James Edgar, gamekeeper, writes : “My advertisement in The Game Breeder sold my eggs as quick as I could gather them. I could have sold thousands more 1f I could have spared them.”
Those who have birds or eggs to sell should let our readers know what they have. The prices obtained makes the advertising quite worth while.
Big space advertisements indicate that the advertiser can furnish birds and eggs in big numbers. A few thousand birds
and eggs at present prices soon will pay.
for a farm.
_ The game-breeding industry is grow- ing so rapidly that the prices for birds and eggs are higher than ever before.
Inquiries for eggs are coming earlier than usual.
We advise purchasers to
place their orders for birds and eggs early in order not to be disappointed. —
Remember always that those who ad- vertise in The Game Breeder should : ceive your orders since they support t more game movement and have made possible for you to breed game and to have good shooting. ae aa
Send us your advertisement if you only have a few birds or eggs to sell. Advertisers all report that they get ex- cellent results. ~ he
A Real Sportsman’s Calendar.
To the average sportsman, the year begins in September. Then, Nature starts to paint the forest leaves a brighter tint, the nuts are nipped with the first frost, the Autumn ha: clothes the hills, and—the game seasons o
A sportsman whose heart responds to ft September call of the hunt suggested to t Remington UMC people that a calendar the tribe of Nimrod should be issued with t month of charm leading all the rest. So Remington calendar comes to us this year bearing leaves for all the months from Se tember, 1917, to December, 1918, inclusi
In another respect this calendar is a p dent breaker. The full color sketch w adorns it is in Lynn Bogue Hunt’s best st; —in fact good judges say that Mr. Hunt n did a better thing. Have you had a covey quail whir-r-r up right under your feet? you have had this experience, you will ¢ much better view of the birds and in just true color when you see this splendid cale dar. Should you be looking forward to com= ing upon your first quail, Mr. Hunt he saves you the trouble of going to the fields. Just below the sketch is another new note an extremely artistic view of the mammoth Remington UMC factories. g
Sportsmen the world over will treasure t calendar—those who are fortunate enough get one—and when its sixteen leaves ha gone, will frame it “for keeps.” ; ‘8
Write to The Remington U.M.C. Go., Woolworth Building, and ask them to se you this beautiful calendar. You will lucky if you get your letter to them befor issue is exhausted. =
The DuPont Company of Wilmington, has just issued a very attractive book entitle “The Sport Alluring.” It is artisticall printed as well as illustrated and will many a very different idea of what o ually. thinks the sport of trapshooting is
It contains over thirty illustrations that interest any sporting man. Lovers of outd should write for one. ? Fe
We advise our readers to write at once
for these interesting books. ~
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“Licénses are issued to game breeders at an initial cost of $2.
“Identification of products of game breed- ing establishments is by means of marking of packages or by individual tagging as may be prescribed by the Commissioner. The indus- try has not attained proportions sufficient to call for tags. Shipments thus far have been satisfactorily regulated by permits from the Commissioner. Game may, under conditions, be sold alive for propagation. Live birds may be trapped for propagation by special permit. The taking of wild birds for scien- tific purposes is permitted by special authori- zation, but is not encouraged as under this guise many valuable birds have been taken in ‘the past with a result of very little value to the public.”
Michigan,
William R. Oates, Commissioner for Michi- gan, reports:
“Replying to yours of June 20, will say that
this State encourages the breeding of game and fish for sale as food. We have just passed a law which is similar to the New York law, known as “The Breeder’s Law,” which per- mits the rearing in captivity of certain kinds of game animals which can be sold and served as food. The only game fish which can be sold in this State are brook trout, under cer- tain regulations when raised in private ponds. When the new law takes effect licenses will be issued to game breeders. The fee for same will be $5 per year. Game sold by breeders must be tagged with a metal tag with a State on We do not know yet what the tags will cost. _ “Game can also be sold for propagation un- der this license. We are sending you under separate cover a copy of the game Iaws and a copy of our last report.”
Massachusetts.
Our readers are aware that no report is needed from Massachusetts which permits and encourages the breeding of all species under permits, quickly and willingly issued. WurH- ouT CHarGE, Massachusetts has an able, up- to-date and patriotic Game Commission and there are many game breeders in all parts of the State who are members of The Game Conservation Society.
Maine.
Hon. Harry B, Austin, Game Commissioner for Maine, reports:
“Replying to yours of the 20th instant, I am sending, herewith, copy of the section of our revised code of fish and game laws which becomes effective July 7th, relating to game and fur farming. As you will note, this law provides for the issuance of permits at a fee of $2 annually. This Board has not as yet promulgated regulations relating to the iden- tification of game raised by virtue of these permits, but as soon as promulgated, shall be glad to send you copy of same.”
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The law provides that, the commissioners of inland fisheries and game may take fish, game birds and wild animals of any kind when, where, and in such manner as they choose, for the purpose of science and of cultivation and dissemination, and they may grant written permits to other persons to take fish, game birds and wild animals for the same purposes, and may introduce or permit to be introduced, any kind of fish into any water.
They may issue permits to any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of propagating game birds, game or fur-bearing animals, under such regulations as they shall establish.
They may issue to any person, firm or cor- poration permit to fence in or enclose land not exceeding twenty-five acres in area, for the above named purpose. When it appears that such application is made in good faith, and upon the payment of an annual fee of two dollars, said Commissioners may issue to the applicant a breeder’s license permitting the breeding and rearing of any species of game birds, game or fur-bearing animals within such enclosure. Such licensed breeders may at any time sell, transport or kill and sell, and any person, firm or corporation may purchase, have in possession or transport, any game birds, game or fur-bearing animals raised by virtue of the provisions of this section, under such regulations as said Commissioners may establish.
OUTINGS AND INNINGS.
A Game Enemy. There was a young man from the city,
_ Who saw what he thought was a kitty.
‘He gave it a pat And said, “Nice little cat.” And they buried his clothes out of pity.
Our Game Dinner.
Plans for the annual game dinner of the Society have been upset by the death of our vice-president and by the absence of the younger men who did most of the work last year.
The dinner will be given in Novem- ber, about November 20. Invitations will be issued in a few days.
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Migratory Bird Law.
We learn that the voluminous migra- tory bird law regulations have gone into effect. Any of our readers who wish to know what they are will find them printed at length in the June number.
| Wild Mallard. ee and Ringneck. Pigeand
WRITE FOR PRICES”
Scarboro Beach Game Farm
R. E. BULLOCK, Manager ay :
SCARBORO,. - MAINE
Member of the Game Guild
We Furnish Eggs i in Season
INmS SQZTF
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A New Book on Increasing and Attracting Birds
| “The Propagation of Wild Birds : | A Manual of Applied Ornithology”
Treating of the practical, detailed Methods of Attracting, Propa-
gating and Increasing all Kinds of desirable Wild Birds, Song
and Insectivorous Birds, Upland Game Birds, and Wild Water } Fowl in America. The Directions include furnishing Nesting | Devices, Planting of Estates, Feeding Birds, and successful } methods of artificial and natural propagation. :
By HERBERT K. JOB
In Charge of The Department of Applied Ornithology of the National : ; d Fe i Association of. Audubon Societies ao
Fully illustrated with photographs. $2.50 net ee . FOR SALE BY : ae
THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY, 150 Nassau Street, New York ‘tl
A J - — In writing’ to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More. Game.”
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MARMOT PHEASANTRY
‘ASk the Man Who Patronizel Us
Breeders of: Chinese Ringnecks, Mongolians, Golden, Silver, Reeves, Amherst, Japanese Silkies, Bantams, Guineas, Pea Fowl, Ringneck Doves. We have over fifty acres devoted entirely to the breeding of the above birds.
THE MARMOT PHEASANTRY, MARMOT, OREGON Member of THE GAME GUILD
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Widgeon ‘Grass, Red-Head Grass, Chara and other foods which attract water fowl. We have the best duck toods which will attract and hold the game and which impart the finest flavor to the flesh. We plan and arrange the plantings suitable to all waters.
GOOD SHOOTING
lam prepared to entertain a number of sportsmen who wish to shoot wild geese, Canvasback and other wild ducks and quail, snipe, etc. Only small parties can be properly looked after. Appoint- ments to try the shooting and learn about the wild duck foods are made by correspondence.
J. B. WHITE WATERLILY, CURRITUCK SOUND, NORTH CAROLINA
Member of THE GAME GUILD
Our Wild Fowl and Waders. WANTED
Practical Book on Duck Bregding for Sport and Profit BLACK BASS $2.00 (SMALL MOUTH)
The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. C. 500—1 LB. EACH : OR LARGER
BLOOMING GROVE CLUB
220 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
Worth of Rabbits
were produced in France in 1914. In America we have but 30,000 people engaged in raising rabbits ; and on account of the immense demand and the big profits to be made, five hundred thousand people could make immense profits rais- ing Belgian Hares, Flemish Giants, New Zealand Reds, etc, We tell you all about it as well as in- formation about Cavies, Pigeons, Bantams, Bees, Canaries, etc., in The National Fancier & Breeders Magazine, published monthly and only $1 per year. Send NOW and we wi give ou a copy of our Rabbit Book FREE, or send é: 25 and also get our Pigeon Book and begin to make money. Sample copy roc, Address
Game Breeders Wanted |
We have a number of requests for back numbers of The Game Breeder from people who wish to bind the volumes and preserve a complete record of the More Game Move- ment,
We will pay 20c each for a number of copies of the following issues in good condition :
1914—March, July and December. 1915— May. 1916— January.
We wish to procure 10 or more copies of each issue named above. Readers who can fur- nish these copies will please send a post card to
The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York
The National Fancier & Breeders Magazine
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RIVER LAWN GAME FARM 1000 Pheasants . 600 Mallards
My pheasants are raised on free range and will make very hardy. brood stock. The ducks are very strong on the wing.
Write for prices and particulars.
RIVER LAWN GAME FARM.
_ RALPH H. SIDWAY Se, 210 Franklin Street _ = : BURRAGES N. Y.
Land for Game Preserve and Country House Near New York For Sale.
About three hundred acres on the Mianus River in Greenwich, Conn., may be purchased at present for one thousand dollars:per acre. Suitable for a magnificent country house seti, with surrounding forest like that of English estates. A mile of beautiful trout stream and a newly made lake of several acres on the place. Owner will not divide the tract. Its peculiar value rests in the combination of forest, cliffs and stream in a tract of this size so near to New York and to the social centers of Greenwich and Stamford.
Deer and many other wild animals and birds now on the place.
Address Advertising Department, The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York City
ISANDANONA PHEASANTRY | Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York
We are the New York State Agents for Mcllhenny’s Pheasant and Duck Feeds
THE BEST AND LOWEST PRICED GAME FOOD ON THE MARKET
Write for Sample and Prices
Get Results and CUT DOWN AT ONCE Your Feed Bill
QUR FEATHERED GAME Our Big Game
A manual on American Game Birds with shooting illustrations in color, and bird portraits of all
A manual on the big game of North America with pictures of all }
American Game Birds. big game animals. By D. W. HUNTINGTON By D. W. HUNTINGTON Editor of The Game Breeder Editor of the Game Breeder PRICE $2.00 PRICE $2.00
In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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HERCULES SmokelesS*Shotgun POWDERS
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- Look for the Name of the Powder
i NY sportsman who gives the matter a moment’s i thought will agree that the powder contained in the shotgun shells he uses is a factor of prime
5 5 . . . i importance to him when shooting either in the field or
at the traps. ' infallible and “E.C.” This being so it is a matter of ordinary prudence when a pe ehated: mn buying loaded shotgun shells to specify that they be loaded 5 : : i te pome with a powder with which you are familiar—a powder Fs Son eupteen upon which you can depend under all circumstances. me ree en ! You get such a powder when you specify either Infal- REVINGTON lible or ““E.C.’?—the two Hercules Smokeless Shotgun 5
Powders. , SELBY Undoubtedly the name of your favorite make of shell oh
is given in the list at the right. You can obtain either WESTERN
of these Hercules Powders in that shell by asking your WINCHESTER
dealer for it.
On the top wad of every shell, and on the cover of the box in which the shells are sold, is printed the name of the powder with which the shell is loaded. Look for this name when buying. See that it is either Infallible
a G.”?
These powders are of high quality and uniform quality. They give light recoil, even patterns, and high velocity. Write for a free booklet which describes them fully.
HERCULES POWDER co. 1063 Market (PS5 Street
Wilmington Delaware
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“PHEASAN TS”
FOR SALE A Sie tot of Golden, Silver and Amherst Pheasants, just right for breeding this spring and summer.
PHEASANT EGGS:
I am_now also booking orders for eges of the following varieties; | Mongolian, Ringneck, Chinese, Golden, Silver, Lady Amherst and Reeves.
WILD DUCK EGGS: ’ Wood Duck, Mallard and Gray Call Duck Eggs.
All. the eggs I ship are guaranteed to be from non-related, pure bred, strong, healthy birds, cor- ~ | rectly mated; all eggs are guaranteed not over three days old when they leave my farm.
Fullinstructions given with each order as, to setting, Bani) feeding and general care of the young birds. |
SPECIAL FOODS: : | 1 also manufacture a full line of special foods for the successful raising |
of young pheasants and wild waterfowl, also for feeding the Bhs birds — | all the year round; write for prices .
WALLACE EVANS GAME FAR\M, St. Charles, nL
Largest and most successful breeders of pheasants, wild waterfowl, feats etc., in the world. Member of The Game Guild
SAFEGUARD
Your Purchase of Game Birds by Buying from Members of
The American Game Breeders’ Society
PROFITS IN FUR FARMING |
Learn about the wonderful Black Fox | Industry which has proven so profitable d to breeders.
Organized to Protect .
the Buying Public Read the Black Fox Magazine, the only paper of its kind in the world.
SAMPLE COPY FREE.
Address E. A.-QUARLES, Sec’y Subscription $1.50 per year. } 233 Broadway, New York City THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE j Telephone, Barclay 7730 15 Whitehall Street, New York
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SANDANONA PHEASANTRY
MILLBROOK
Dutchess Co. New York Ringneck Pheasants for Fall Delivery. Write for Prices and Information.
Member of The Game Guild P. O. Box 101. Member of American Game Breeders Society
If You Want Fertile Eggs Next Spring BUY NOW
We offer Silver, Golden, Ringneck, Formosan, Lady Amherst, China, White, Mongolian, Reeves, Swin- hoe, Versicolor, Elliott, Impeyan, Soemmer- ring, Machurian Eared, Black Throated Golden, Lineated, Peacock, Melanotus and Prince ot Wales. Also all five varieties of peafowl
WSS: Member of The Game Guild.
lle CLYDE B. TERPFLL, - NATVRALIST- Wild Turkey, Japanese Silkies and Longtails. peer PZ CouKesHy Wes Crane, Swan, Mandarin, Mallard, Black, For-
mosan Teal and other varieties of Duck. OUR WILD FOWL
Crested, Ring and other varieties of doves.
Deer, Jack Rabbits. . AND WADERS
Send fifty cents in stamps for By D. W. HUNTINGTON colortype catalogue.
CHILES & COMPANY $2.00 Post Paid MT. STERLING KENTUCKY ; Member of The Game Guild THE GAME BREEDER
Member of The American Game Breeders Society
} Wild Rice—their natural food gi} | =—will make every bit of marsh land, pond, lake or river their feed- ing pround. Wild Rice Seed — my specialty -now ready for shipment and planting. jf - Germination assured by special moisture — retaining \ method of storage. WILD MALLARD DECOYS
Strong, calling birds that bring the flocks wheeling in. Some of the best stock in the country—lively and healthy. TERRELL.’S Live Decoy Collars and handy ‘ carrying crate with complete instructions sent free with each order. Write for my free booklet—and tell me what you are interested in.
150 NASSAU STREET NEW YORK
10,009 vn QU ATE Bike”
GAMBELS
ELK
Lowest Prices Ever Quoted DUCKS
DEER GEESE BUFFALO PHEASANTS MOOSE
PEAFOWLS CRANES —STORKS HARES — RABBITS
SQUIRRELS
And all varieties Pet © ock. Get our prices before placing your order. We carry the largest stock on the continent at all times.
MOUNTAIN SHEEP SILVER FOXES MINK—MARTIN FISHER And all other varieties Animals & Birds
Big Illustrated Catalog, 10c Complete Information and Lists Free
HORNE’S ZOOLOGICAL ARENA CO. = KANSAS CITY, MO.
R writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Announcements inserted under this head in small type for 3 cents per word. If displayed in heavy type, 5 cents per word. No advertisement accepted for less Postage stamps accepted in payment.
THE GAME BREEDER ih
than 30 cents.
150 Nassau Street
LIVE GAME
FOR SALE—Ringneck Pheasants, two years old, These
are my breeding stock birds and are pinioned. $5.00 per pair. M. R. CHEESMAN, R. F.'D. No. 3, Murray, Utah.
150 HEAD CANADIAN WILD GEESE FOR FALL
delivery at $5.00 each, The only sure way of getting started with Canada geese, Mallards and- black duck, ALBERT N. FROOM, Box 82, New Holland, North Carolina.
WILD TURKEYS—For prices see display advertisement in this issue. W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Bucks County, Pa.
PHEASANTS — GOLDEN, SILVER, AMHERST,
Chinese.—Wild Geese —Wild Ducks, English Beagles - America’s greatest Hunters—bred in the wilds of the Adirondacks—hundreds of acres of range. WILLET RANDALL, North River, N. Y., Beavermeadow Stock Farm
FOR SALE—THREE PAIR WOOD-DUCKS TWO
years old. One pair Canadian Geese three years old that raised a flock of goslings this year, GLENN CHAP- MAN, Midway, Conn.
BELGIAN HARES FOR SALE, FROM PEDIGREED, prize-winning stock. Satisfaction guaranteed, CLIF- FORD MACKLIN, Kearney, Neb. 23
MALLARDS AND BLACK DUCKS For Sale—Maliard and Black Ducks, good flyers, $1.50 each, ALBERT F., HOLMES, 8 Bosworth Street, Boston, Mass.
SIBERIAN FUR FARM, HAMILTON, CANADA;
breeds Foxes, Martin, Mink, Skunks, Wild Geese, Ducks, Pheasants and Black Siberian Hares, Send 25 cents for Booklet on the latter.
PURE BRED WILD WATERFOWL AT FOLLOW.
ing prices: Mallards, $3.75 per pair. Pintails, $3 25 per -pair. Green Wing Teal, $5.00 per pair. Blue Wing Teal, $3.75 per pair. Also redheads, Gadwalls, Widgeons, Canvasbacks, Spoonbills, at reasonable prices. tor propa- gating and scientifie purposes. GEORGE J. KLEIN. Ellinwood, Kansas.
SAN LORENZO GAME FARM — BREEDER OF
all kinds of pheasants; eggs in season; also birds for sale at alltimes Visitors welcome, Write for price list. Mrs. S. MATTHIESSEN, San Lorenzo, Alameda Co., California. 7-16
HOYT’S CALIFORNIA PHEASANTRY, PRICELIST. FRED D. HOYT, Hayward, California,
GRAY STAR PHEASANTRY Breeder of all kinds of pheasants. Eggs in season. Pure brand, strong, healthy birds for sale. GIFFORD GRAY, 21 Ward St., Orange, N. J.
FOR SALE—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the pheasant family. Pamphlet with order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren Co., New
Jersey. (xot)
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New York City |
PHEASANTS AND WILD TURKEYS ~
For Sale —250 pinioned Ringneck hens, 50 cocks, | tgt5 birds, extra fine for breeders, immediate deliverv. | Iooo 1917 hens full wing or pinioned, 1500 1917 cocks full wing or pinioned. roo wild turkeys, October de- | livery. These birds are reared on virgin soil and are | vigorous a'd healthy. PORTAGE HEIGHTS | GAME FARM, Akron, Ohio. . i
QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND
other animals. See display advertisement in this is WM. J. MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas: antry and Game Park. p 4
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS-
A limited number for sale now—the surest way to st breeding this species. We are the oldest and larg breeders of Canadas in this country. Black and W Swans,.Wild Ducks, etc., forsale. WHEALTON WAT FOWL FARMS, Chincoteague Island. Va.
FOR SALE—GOLDEN PHEASANTS, YOUN
and also full plumaged, pure, healthy, of non-related stock. Also some pure Mongolian males. Ba SEIGLER, Bangor, Wis. Member of Tne Game Guild.
WE HAVE A VERY CHOICE LOT OF MATU
PEAFOWL FOR SALE—FINE PEACOCKS AND
hens, no relation. Send 25c, for book on peafowl). theit care and habits. SHADY BRANCH PLANTATION Monetta, S. C ae
BLACK SIBERIAN HARES, A WAR TIME PRO
POSITION FOR MEAT AND FUR. PEDIGREEI STOCK FOR SALE. ELDON R. STAEBLER GANANOQUE, ONTARIO, CANADA, 7
FOR SALE—SILKIES, COCKS, HENS, MALLARD
All rugged free range stock, Ringneck Pheasants Goldens full plumage. Goldens—year old. Silvers plumage. Silvers—year old. LAKE GEORGE G FARM, Lake George, N. Y.
FOR SALE--6 PAIRS, 2 AND 3 YEAR OLD PEACOC
t15.00a pair. 5 pair Lady Amherst Pheasants, $15.00, pair Goldens, $12.50a pair., 3 pair Reeves Pheasants, $15 o¢ 6 pair Mandarin Ducks acclimated, x year, full plum $18.00 a pair. 1 pair Wood Ducks, $18.co. Also ful Foreign Birds of song and plumage. J.L. OAKES,U Stock Yards, Denver, Colorado,
PHEASANTS—Ringnecked, Lady Amberinene Silvers, Goldens. 32 birds for $150. Gilbert L. Davis, Mt. Sinai, Long Island, N. Y.
LIVE GAME WANTED
WANTED — Reeves and Amherst Pheasants. § price, age and number. MARMOT PHEASANT) Marmot, Oregon. Member of The Game Guild.
fn writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “‘Yours for More Ga
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PHEASANTS—RINGNECK.: YEARLINGS, 2 YEARS _ old, and 1917 hatched birds ; also, Golden and Silver, 1917 hatched and matured birds. Can make immediate delivery.
F. A. W. SHAW, Pheasantry, Marlborough New York.
WANTED—100 OR 150 YOUNG MALLARD DUCKS. Must be good clear stock. The younger the better, SCARBORO BEACH GAME FAR\M, Scarboro, Maine.
PHEASANTS WANTED.
Between two and three hundred field grown young ringnecks for breeding purposes. In application
particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and cocks and hems separately in such quantity for Fall
or Winter delivery. Address A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New: York,
WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX
Pied Peafow], Soemmerring, Cheer, Hoki and German ‘Peacock Pheasants, Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels. Also Swinhoes; state price and number. R.A. CHILES & CO., Mt. Sterling, Ky.
FOODS
WILD DUCKS’ NATURAL FOODS Will attract __ them, These foods collected, examinations made, plant- ings planned and superintended. Write for free infor- mation, CLYDE B. TERRELL, Specialist on the Natural Foods of Wild Ducks, Dept. Pi, Oshkosh, Wis.
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild duck food plants, and seed, Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Widgeon grass, Red head grass, Chara and other kinds. F
There are hundreds of thousands of acres of water | marshes where these, the best of duck foods, will grow | and hold the game. Write and learn how to do it, | WHITE’S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. 1 Currituck Sound,
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| ACORNS . An excellent food for deer, pheasants and wild ducks.
I can supply acorns by the bushel or in“large lots. | Write for prices, including shipping charges. W. R. McLEAN, R. F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina.
BOOKS
OOKS—5 Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, ‘Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Ginseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. By A. R. Harding. Price 60 cents each. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
OUR BOOK DESCRIBES FULLY THE 200 MOST
_ valuable roots, herbs, etc., used in medicine. How to
‘gather and prepare, War Prices and Address of Buyers
Rae cay zoc. ROOT & HERB COMPANY, West an, N.H,
“LUMINOUS BODIES,” A VERY INTERESTING _and instructive volume, by Charles Hallock, Price, $1.00. Address: Sportsmen’s Review Publishing Co., 15 W. Sixth St., Cincinnati, O.
‘ OUR BIG GAME,” BY D. W. HUNTINGTON, ccntains portraits and descriptions of all American big ame animals. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER,
450 Nassau St., N. Y.
*OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS,” BY D. W. _ Huntington. A practical book on wild duck breeding for sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“OUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D. W. HUNT-
ington, contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in color. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York.
GAMEHKEEPERS
GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED
American game breeder with a 15 year experience wishes to raise 5009 ringnecks for a private party or State, and having an incubator and brooder plant. Apply to THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y.
POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad. Expert on rearing Pheasant, Quail, Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man- agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of field and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trapper of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager, J, H. W., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR
poultry farm, to finish my experiments in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent ; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex day old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not ; if fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer, demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game. 20 years’ experience in America and Europe. S. HERBERT, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
TO RAISE GAME. Wanted a partner to raise game on a sea island, A pleasant resort during the Winter. Write to the Owner, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York.
FOR RENT—NEW CAMP ON BAY SHORE, WILD fow] and plover, shooting in season. Inquire of A. KENISTON, Edgartown, Mass.
PHEASANTRY FOR SALE — JOHN L. WILLOCX pheasantry for sale—pure bred Chinese and young golden pheasants, JOHN L. WILLOCX, Hayward, Calitornia
REGISTERED AND PEDIGREED BLACK FOXES. RUGGED PUPS BORN IN NATURAL CONDITIONS ON MOUNTAIN RANCH. GUARANTEED TO BREED. EVERY ONE OF OUR EIGHT FEMALES WHELPED THIS SPRING. WRITE FOR RECORDS, bee MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH, ONAWA, MAINE.
“THE RANCH BRED FOX,” THE BEST BOOK published on Fox farming. Tells all about this wonderful industry. Price 25c, postpaid. THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE, 15 Whitehall St., New York.
PARTNER WANTED—WANTED,A PARTNER WHO
has some good duck land. I will furnish the stock. Can also put you next to some fine dark mink. Write quick. F. STEVENSON, Route 4, Caro, Michigan.
BLUE BELTON SETTER—New England bred and
trained, finished on southern quail. Staunch and good retriever, about three years old, $175. Picture on request. Address, J.C. CARR, 50 Congress St., Boston, Mass,
An Aid to Game Preserving.
An airedale is a most valuable dog for the game farm and preserve. He isa good watchdog and an excellent aid in ex terminating vermin. These dogs are ad- vertised regularly in this magazine and we urge our readers to try them.
: “Yours for More Game.”
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AIREDALE TERRIERS
Most Popular Dog to-day because of sterling mérit, IDEAL FOR POULTRYMAN, | guards birds, kills rats, skunks. INDISPENSABLE IN ORCHARD... PEERLESS WATCH 10G for © home, family, stock. Easy keeper. SPLENDID PLAYMATE for children. ABSOLUTELY FEAR- LESS (used by Allies in trenches), faithful, highly intelligent. a ‘one man” dog. HIGHLY PROFITABLE, good bitch earns upward $200 yeartys pups easily reared, readily sold Puppies, grown dogs, bred bitch,
from FINEST AIREDALE BLUOD IN, WORLD, pedigreed, registered, certified. ATSTUD, Havelock
Goldsmith, magnificent imported son internationally fanious Ch. Crompton Oorahg, fee $15; express bitches to Weston, N. J. Safe delivery, honorable dealiny, satisfaction guaranteed, Booklet and references on request.
VIBERT KENNEL,’ Box 11a, Weston, N. J.
BREEDERS’ CARDS
LIVE GAME, ELK, DEER, WILD
Turkeys, Quail, Pheasants, Ducks, and all other game. Eggs in season. See space advertise- ment. :
W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Pa. Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS, PIGEONS AND EGGS. Pheasants, Amherst, Silver, Gold- en, Reeves, Mongolian, Swinhoe, Versicolor, Ringnecks, Cochin Bantams, White King Pigeons. Eggs in Season. BLUE RIBBON POULTRY AND PHEASANT FARM Davenport Neck, Phone 655, New Rochelle, N. Y.
Member of the Game Guild.
REGISTERED BLACK FOXES, TROUT & HARES. Rugged pups, bred on highest ranchin America.. 1917 Breeding Record. 8 litters from 8 females. Also Mountain Brook Trout. Milch Goats. Belgium and Flemish Hares. BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH Onawa - Maine Member of the Game Guild.
FOR SALE. Pheasant Eggs in Season. : Everything in the Pheasant P= SS ==—= family.
j Pamphlet with order : FREE.
BUCKWOOD PHEASANTRIES
Dunfield, Warren County New Jersey
The Best in Pointers
Puppies, Broken Dogs and Brood Bitches, by Champion Comanche Frank, Fishel’s Frank and Champion Nicholas
Write me your wants, please-
U. R. FISHEL Box 35 HOPE, IND.
PISHEL’S PRANK
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_ BOOK ON — I DOG DISEASES] — - And Howto Feed |
Mailed free to any address by the Author —
H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc.
BREEDER OF FANCY PHEASANTS
Eggs inseason. Amhersts, Silver, Golden, Versicolor, _ Mongolian, Reeves, Ringnecks, Manchurian, Elliott, Swinhoe, Impeyan, Mela- notus, Soemmering.
GOLDEN STAR POULTRY FARM. |> =
Gifford Gray ‘ New Jersey Member of the Game Guild.
ti
Orange,
DR. FRANK KENT Importer Bob White Quail San Antonio, Texas.
Book your orders now for early Fall and Spring delivery. Bank references.
Member of the Game Guild.
DOGS
CHESAPEAKE PUPPIES For Sale.—Four Chesapeake puppies just weaned, dogs and two bitches. Address GEORGE B. MOOR Flanders, Long Island. an
POINTERS, SETTERS, BEAGLES AND RETRIEVERS.
Thoroughly broken Pointers, Setters, Beagles ai Retrievers for sale. Also thoroughbred registe: Chesapeake puppies Dogs boarded and trained.
Telepbone 38M, Central Islip.
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THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, of Berry.
offer forsale setters'and pointers, fox and cat hou wolf and deer hounds. Coon and opossum hounds, ¥ mint and rabbit hounds, bear and lion hounds, also dale terriers. All dogs shipped on trial, purcha judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or mon funded. Sixty page, highly illustrated, instructiv interesting catalogue for ten cents in stamps or
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CONTENTS
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Survey of the Field—North Carolina— What is Proper —A
Variety of ; Game Laws—A New Shoot— Substitution — Quail
and Grouse Breeding——-The Proper Method——Our Preference—
‘What is Needed —The Prairie Chicken —Sharp Tailed Grouse
in Town—Lack of Preparedness—Black Bass.
Quail Breeding for Sport and for Profit D. W. Huntington An Important Decision - By the Court of Appeals, N. Y. Decrease in Prairie Chickens - - - J. P. Turner Notes from The State Game Departments By State Officers Notes from The Game Farms and Preserves By Our Readers Why the Prairie Chickens Vanish Letters from Saskatchewan Editorials
The Game Dinner— Small Dinners— Alarm About the
Grouse—Our Policy—Public and Private Shooting.
Outings and Innings—Trade Notes, Ete.
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I carry t the largest stock in Anco of live game birds, ornamental birds and quadrupeds. —
Hungarian Partridges
AN I am prepared to fill the largest ordeae “\ for these birds and for years 1 have filled — “8 practically all of the large State orders for bor “ Partridges and Pheasants.
Pheasants
My Pheasant pens hold thousands of Pheasants and I am prepared to furnish these birds in large numbers to State de- partments. individual breeders and preserves.
Wild Duck te Mallards, Black Duck, Teal, Wood-Duck, Pintails and other species: q can be supplied in large numbers at at- tractive prices. Also Mandarins and all other water fowl. :
Wild Turkeys
I am now the largest breeder and — dealer in Wild Turkeys and can supply these birds in good numbers to State y Departments and preserve owners "4
I carry the largest stock in America of ornamental birds and animals. My ponds now contain nearly 200 beetl F Royal Swans of England. I have fine lot of the beautiful pink FLAMINGOES and the very large Europeap “1 PELICANS. Also STORKS, CRANES, PEAFOWL, fancy GEESE and DUCKS. My pheasant pens contain over a thousand Ringneck and fancy PHEASANTS. All stock is kept under practically natural conditions. I have 60 acre of tand entirely devoted to my business. Can also promptly furnish BUFFALOES, DEER, LLAMAS. RABBITS, et
Orders Booked during summer.
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Write me before buying elsewhere—it will pay you to do so. Your visit solicited. TI am only 60 miles from New York and 30 miles from Philadelphia.
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Young Ducks and Foster Mother
We were asked recently if a hen, when used as a foster mother for wild ducks, ever went into the water. The above picture:made by Mr. Lane of the Remington U. M. C. €o., at the preserve of The Game Breeders’ Association, shows a hen in the water. At one time we saw her actually floating on the water
if not swimming with the young ducks.
The experimental work carried on by The Game Breeders’ Association under < the management of the Editor of the Game Breeder will be continued by The Game Conservation Society at a new game farm. We produced thousands of pheasants and ducks, and as a result of the experiment many new preserves and shooting clubs were started by our members. The new experiment will consist
-largely of the breeding of American Game Birds by proper methods, and, no doubt, will result in all those who prefer quail and grouse to the imported pheasants being able to procure these- birds with instructions as’ to the methods used in making them abundant. Some pheasants and wild turkeys also will be reared
‘for the next game dinner, to be given when peace is declared.
The new farm will be supported by small subscriptions from our members.
eae should be made to The Game Conservation Society, and mailed to The 4 Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York. .
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Game Breeder
Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July 9, 1915, at the Post?Office, New York(City, New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME XII
NOVEMBER, 1917
NUMBER 2
Co) SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
North Carolina. Mr. R. E. Parker, of the Raleigh, N.
‘C., Audubon Society, says his State is
one of the best game territories in the East or South. “‘Although this State is the camping ground of many sportsmen during the game season, neither the State nor any, county of the State has ever re- ceived financial compensation commen-
surate with the amount of service ren-
dered to sportsmen. This is an evidence that we have never had proper game leg- islation.”
There can be no doubt that many thousands of dollars are expended every year in North Carolina because it is a
good game State. There can be no doubt.
that many hundreds of thousands of dol- lars easily could be attracted to the State ; that the value of the farms could be tre- mendously increased and that the State might furnish a vast amount of game for the people to eat. We agree with
_ Mr. Parker that the State might have
some “proper game legislation.” Pos- sibly we differ as to what would be proper.
What Is Proper. |
The reason why thousands of dollars are expended every year by visiting sportsmen in North Carolina is that they can shoot without too much interference. Recently the National Association of Audubon Societies succeeded in putting the quail, properly called partridge in the South, on the song bird list and the shooting is prohibited forever.* We hope Mr. Parker does not think this would be the “proper caper” for North Carolina.
- Many game laws may well be considered
‘as capers, freaks or “fool laws,” as the
newspapers often term them.
In one county in North Carolina, where we found the partridges tremen- dously abundant, about 200,000 acres made up of many small farms, are ex- empt from taxation (State, city, county, school). The partridge pays all the taxes on the lands and all the taxes on the buildings.
If the legislature of North Carolina should decide that it is “proper legisla- tion” to place the quail on the song bird list and to prohibit the shooting and the eating of this excellent food bird, the result would be that many small farmers would resume the payment of taxes and we think it likely the county would ac- quire a new representative in the general assembly at Raleigh.
A Variety of Game Laws.
Mr. Parker advises us that his State has a great variety of game laws. It always has had a great variety. Some years the crop of new enactments has been nearly an hundred, each law creating a lot of new crimes, no doubt, which are unknown in all civilized countries which have game in abundance in the markets.
We have, Mr. Parker says, a system of local and conflicting bird and game laws that render effective protection im- possible. We are not quite sure what Mr. Parker means by “effective protec- tion.” If this refers to the practical pro- hibition of shooting and eating game which has been made “effective” in other States, we are inclined to think the sports- men and the farmers are better off in North Carolina than they are where the
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protection is more effective. We enjoy going to North Carolina and shooting and eating partridges and we are glad to see the places where the shooting keeps the partridges abundant. We would much regret to see any “effective protection” in North Carolina if it were so planned as to put an end to the shooting and eat- ing of game.
As a sample of the variety of enact- ments, Mr. Parker says:
“We have thirty-six different open seasons on deer, eleven counties having no closed season at all; twenty-seven different open sea- sons on squirrels, forty-eight counties having no closed seasons; thirty-three different open seasons on quail, one county having no closed season; twenty-six different open seasons on wild turkey, three counties having no closed seasons, and two no Open seasons. Many of these different seasons prevail in counties adjacent to each other, too!”
Mr. Parker might have added that these laws are often changed and that no one, not even the lawyers, seems to know or to care what they are. They ap- pear to be a harmless amusement in so far as the game is concerned. The ef- fect of the laws seems to be very good. There is much game. It is significant that the game is more abundant and the shooting is far better than it is in States which for years had more “effective pro- tection” and big appropriations, hundreds of thousands of dollars in fact, to see that the protection be sufficiently effec- tive to put an end to the shooting as well as the eating of game.
In New York State the protection of quail is very effective. Shooting and eating of quail is prohibited, excepting on Long Island, where fortunately the people are permitted to have the birds in the same way they have them in North Carolina without too much protection. Our Ideas of Propriety.
We observed that possibly we might differ with Mr. Parker as to what would be proper legislation. We believe the laws are excellent in so far as they enable the farmers to get the amount of their taxes on lands and buildings paid by those who wish to take some of the game which they keep very plentiful. That is, of course, if the farmers want the money. We believe it would be improper
législation for the State to protect the game so effectively that no one could shoot or eat a bird, because no one would look after the game or pay any taxes for the farmers. No one certainly would visit the State on account of the game. If Mr. Parker wants “proper game legis- lation” of the kind recently put over in Ohio, we certainly differ with him and feel sure his people will regret it if they try it. We helped in getting some of this old style “proper legislation” in Ohio some years ago before we knew better. There were wild turkeys in the State at the time. They became extinct after we secured the “proper legislation” prohibit- ing turkey shooting. Of course it was useless to keep the law prohibiting any one from shooting wild turkeys after the birds vanished. The law was repealed. Recently we had a letter from an Ohio farmer in which he says there are 200 wild turkeys on his place and, he adds, “your paper opened my eyes.”
We really think the harmless legisla- tion in North Carolina which does not appear to interfere too much with the people having game if they want to, is better than the kind of laws which the eminent naturalist, Dr. Shufeld, well said tend to “protect the game off the face of the earth.”
North Carolina is a fine State. It has an intelligent and hospitable people. We like to go there, and we are sure the State is far better off than it would be if it had an overdose of “proper legisla- tion.”
A New Shoot.
One of our Ohio readers. who began as a commercial breeder and has this season about 4,000 pheasants and 200 wild tur- keys, writes that he has converted his plant into a “shoot” and will discontinue rearing for commercial purposes.
We are glad to hear this. The prices for live game are so attractive that com- mercial game farms have increased in number even more rapidly than the noisy sanctuaries or shooting preserves. The last named are fully as important and from our point of view far more inter- esting than the game farms where there’ is no shooting. The shoots may be relied
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upon to fill the markets with game for the people to eat in order that they may be- come more friendly to sport and aid us in checking the efforts of those who would make song birds of the quail and grouse.
Substitution.
When the first game breeders law was under discussion before the Senate Com- mittee at Albany, N. Y., we insisted that the producers should have the right to breed all species of game. The result was a compromise; the law as it passed only permitted the production of pheasants, black ducks, mallards and deer. Our plans were sadly interfered with.
Senator Roosevelt, who presided at the hearing, said to the writer that if we succeeded in producing the species per- mitted it would not be long before we could have the law amended so that it would be possible to make all the wild fowl plentiful. We were much opposed to the compromise. We anticipated that the pheasants would be substituted for our quail and grouse; that quickly they _ would become abundant, as they have in many places, when they are properly looked after, and that. the shooting of quail.,and grouse would be prohibited because no one would look after these birds for the very good reason that it would not pay to do so.
The Proper Method.
The proper method of breeding quail and grouse, as often as we have pointed out, is to make the fields safe and attrac- tive, and to let the birds do the rest. The tendency to increase is tremendous. In the days when the natural game enemies
were very abundant the quail and grouse’
lived literally in swarms on vast areas. We have shot wagon loads of these birds and we know well how abundant they were.
The quail and grouse produced enough eggs and birds to feed all the hawks, crows, snakes, and the many other spe- cies of vermin that dined on game, but they never did and never will produce enough for all of their natural enemies and a few million gunners besides. The _ gunners, as often we have pointed out,
shoot the stock birds left by vermin and extinction is the very natural result.
Quail and Grouse Breeding.
Those who do not understand the sub- ject insisted that pheasant breeding and wild duck breeding were possible but that no one had succeeded or could suc- ceed in breeding quail and grouse.
As a matter of fact the quail and grouse breeders who attempted to rear these birds in captivity have not made a great success of it. E
There is a way, however, to breed quail and grouse by the thousand for sport and for food and those who know how this should be done are aware that our indigenous birds can be reared much cheaper than pheasants and wild ducks can be reared.
Our Preference.
We prefer the noisy sanctuary where the shooting is lively to the much praised quiet refuges for several reasons. Grant- ing that the same amount of land is posted in each case, the noisy sanctuary will be found to produce the most game, and besides a lot of shooting which is quite worth while. Vermin will dine freely in the refuge but it will not take much game in places where it is pro- duced for sport.
There is plenty of room in America for all kinds of preserving and we will not oppose the sentimentalists who want refuges where no sport is to be had and where no food is produced for the people to eat; all we ask is that our friends do not oppose us when we organize noisy refuges with small dues for the members who are willing to give their time to the laudable work of shooting some game for the people to eat.
What Is Needed.
What is most needed just now is a practical experiment showing that grouse and quail easily can be made as abundant as partridges always are in Hungary and as grouse always are in Scotland.
It is very easy to say: “You can’t do it; it is impossible.” Therefore we must have a few more laws prohibiting shoot- ing. We can collect plenty of funds for
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these laws, just stand aside and see us fill the law books. We will be on hand when the close season periods expire to see that they are renewed, etc., etc.
We must admit that it is not easy to interest people in_any work which does not pay, either in sport or in food. Who can be expected to rent the land or the breeding and shooting rights; to pay for planting suitable covers and foods and for the wages of beat keepers to see that the game enemies are controlled when the only reward in sight is a term in jail or an excessive fine if a grouse or a quail be shot or eaten?
Already there are between 500 and 1,000 pheasant breeders in Ohio. There are, we are sure, no quail breeders. Why? Because the law says the people who produce pheasants may shoot them and eat them. The people who would produce quail, the best bird in the world for Ohio, excepting possibly the prairie grouse, must only feed their cats and dogs and the common game enemies on quail.
Who on earth can be expected to lift a hand to save the prairie grouse and the quail so long as thousands, many thousands, of dollars are gathered every year to put an end to the shooting and eating of quail and grouse?
The most important work in sight for game breeders is to see that they have the right to produce the game which most needs their attention. There are a few places, fortunately, where the work can be done legally. What is needed most is for some one to show how plen- tiful the birds quickly can be made and how cheaply the work can be carried on.
Sharp-T ailed Grouse in Town.
Mr. Charles Hallock, dean of Amer- ican sportsmen, writes: ‘Referring to page 169 of your September issue anent the sharp-tailed grouse and the cause of their disappearance from Minnesota and Dakota, let me mention in contrast that the year I located Kittson County seat in Northwestern Minnesota (1879) I drove a hen and brood from an adjacent lot, in September, ‘shooing’ her in a persua- sive way until I got her in front of the post-office, and the mother took things
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quietly, making no protest, like hens in tne barnyard.
“Later I found it difficult to drive these grouse from off a stack of ripened wheat. 1 had guns but it was wicked to kill more than enough for the table and considerate sportsmen in that section were not shoot- ing for the market.” .
Mr. Hallock agrees with us that game produced by industry should be marketed and the proceeds should be used to pro- duce more game and to keep it plentiful. The Prairie Chicken. =
We have received an interesting little — book about the prairie chicken, written by Mr. J. P. Turner, and published by the Minister of Agriculture of Manitoba. We print a few paragraphs on the de- crease of the prairie chicken in this issue and later we will print what Mr. Turner — says about the coyote, the crow and other enemies of the grouse. It is quite evi- dent from Mr. Turner’s remarks about vermin that they need a lot of Oneida — traps in Manitoba. The goshawk, one of the worst enemies of grouse, easily could — be reduced in numbers by trapping. .
Lack of Preparedness.
There was a greater lack of prepared- ness in the game line than in any other ~ food producing industry. It seems for- tunate that the “more game” movement — was well started. Our reports indicate — that hundreds of tons of game will be — eaten this season and the ratio of increase — will be geometrical as surely as the prices — keep up which they will until we have a few thousand more big shoots. There are many places where the bag will run — over a thousand birds this season. ; Black Bass. aa.
We especially wish to hear from our — readers who can tell us where we can get black bass. We have inquiries for these fish and they seem to be very scarce.
The safest place to buy game and eggs” is from advertisers in The Game Breeder.
are well aware what will happen if they do not deal fairly with members of the society. | . ae
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QUAIL BREEDING FOR SPORT AND FOR PROFIT. By D. W. Huntineton.
>), UR quail require .\ different methods ewe //of preserving in ais different parts of
4 they country, 1 have written about the necessity for restoring some covers and natural foods in closely cultivated regions where all the foods and covers are plowed under on vast areas at-certain seasons. The quail, I believe, can be made plentiful more quickly and more easily on the well tilled farms of the Central and Western States than they can be in New England and in other parts of the coun- try where often there is too much cover which harbors many game enemies.
On the prairie farms where vast fields of grain are cultivated it is easy to observe the winged vermin and to control it with Oneida traps and the ground enemies which are comparatively scarce can be more easily destroyed than they can be in places where there are large woodlands and dense thickets.
All sportsmen are aware that quail do not go far into large woodlands; when driven from the fields they usually settle not far from the fence. The birds are, however, very partial to clearings in the woods where there are small fields ard gardens and an old abandoned house with a deserted garden is almost sure to attract a covey of quail.
To preserve quail and breed them in large numbers on wooded areas many small clearings should be made in the woods and these should be roughly planted with some of the many foods eaten by quail. There should be’ some food suitable for each season of the year. Wild roses, sumacs, sunflowers and tall berry briars furnish excellent foods late in the fall and in the winter when the snow is on the ground. Small grain, wheat, buckwheat, rye, oats, etc., should be planted in the clearings and left standing. Grass, clover, weeds and let- tuce can be planted to advantage. In a
small, sunny clearing containing some or all of these foods it will be an easy mat- ter to establish one or more coveys.
Small fields made in the woods and planted with potatoes or other vegetables, corn or grain, to be harvested, will make quail ground out of uninhabitable wood- lands and the quail crop can be made more profitable than the vegetables or grain in States where it is legal to breed quail. Roads and paths cut through the woods will make the control of vermin more easy and will make the woods more safe and attractive.
In my early shooting days I used to shoot much in the West in places where small farms were being started in wooded regions and I often found several covies in a single clearing and J have seen three covies flushed in one field at the same time.
In many of the Southern States ideal conditions for quail preserving are found. Fields not too closely cultivated often are surrounded with rail fences with their angles full of weeds and briars but in some places tere is far too much cover, often swampy cover, which holds a vast amount of vermin which it is diffi- cult to control. Snakes are one of the worst enemies of quail.
I know places where thousands of - quail can ‘be shot safely every season, but the reason is that keepers are em- ployed to keep the vermin down, and to see that the birds have plenty to eat. The sportsmen shoot the birds which would have been eaten by vermin and always there are plenty of stock birds left to breed, in quiet, another season.
If the quail clubs owning scrub oak lands on Long Island, N. Y., and in New Jersey will make some clearings in the woods and plant them roughly with de- sirable foods they easily can enlarge their shooting area and if they will pro- vide plenty of briars as a protection against enemies and will see that vermin is persistently trapped and shot, soon they will: increase the numbers of the quail.
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AN IMPORTANT DECISION. —
The Court of Appeals, New York, has decided that the state is not liable for damage to timber of private individ- uals committed by beavers purchased and freed in the Adirondacks.
The court said, “It is true that one who keeps wild animals in captivity must see to it at his peril that they do no damage to others. But it is not true
that whenever an individual is liable .
for a certain act the state is liable for the same act. In liberating these beaver the state was acting as a government.
“Wherever protection is accorded, harm may be done to the individual. Deer or moose may brouse on his, crops; mink or skunks kill his chickens; robins eat his cherries. In certain cases the legislature may be mistaken in its belief that more good than harm is occasioned. But this is clearly a matter which is con- fided to its discretion.”
In Phelps v. Racey the court said if regulations protecting game operates in any respect unjustly or oppressively, the proper remedy must be applied by that body.
The legislatures in many states have taken the proper view of the matter of compensation for damages done by state animals. In some states the damage is ascertained and paid, but other states also permit the farmer or other land- owner to protect his crops and poultry from the ravages of animals said to be- long to the state because they have no other owner.
In Aldrich v. Wright, a New Hamp- shire case (53 N. H. 398), it was said in an elaborate opinion that a farmer might shoot mink even in the closed sea- son should he find them threatening his geese.
The shepherd naturally is inclined to kill a state wolf when found eating sheep; the game-keeper in all civilized countries kills state snakes, skunks, minks, weasels, crows, hawks and other vermin when they are observed to be dining liberally on the excellent food he is producing. The
_plies to food producers.
proper legislation, of course, permits food producers to protect their crops from trespassing state animals as well as from
privately owned trespassing animals. -
Where thousands of pheasants are reared in a field the food is more important than the fur of several minks is. An Iowa farmer once went to jail when convicted for killing a mink which de- stroyed upwards of fifty of his hens in a night. There was a time when women were hanged because they stole property of small value from linen-drapers in order
to clothe their naked children. But the enthusiasts who seek legislation of this character have become back numbers and the modern tendency of our legislation is to permit people who have hay or fruit or fowls, including pheasants, ducks and other game birds, to protect their proper- ty against trespassing animals which once were said to belong to kings who can do no wrong and later are said to belong to states because they have no other owner.. There is’ a place fogmemeny-— thing and the rule that everything should be kept in its proper place ap- We are in- clined to believe that a state which in- troduces beavers in.a park should not
permit them to go out and destroy trees on private property and that if it does so it should respond in damages. The legislature should, of course, make the laws and the courts are right in saying that the remedy for the unfortunate situations created when animals are pro- tected is to amend the laws so as to re- quire the state to pay damages and to permit farmers, including game farmers, to protect their property from highly destructive state animals.
We are quite firmly of the opinion that a wise discretion should be the rule of the destroyer. That he should be educated not to destroy wantonly and not to destroy species believed to be beneficial and not harmful until they ‘be caught in the act of taking game. Nat-
He declined to pay any fine. ~
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urahists admit that beneficial species may go wrong or acquire perverted appetites as in the case of the beneficial marsh hawks which became very fond of eating heath hens on Martha’s Vineyard as reported by Dr. G. W. Field, when a state game officer; and the marsh hawk in Ohio shot by the editor of The Game Breeder as it flew with a cock quail in its talons. The best and we are in- clined to think ‘the only way to handle the vermin question is to except game farms where laws are enacted protecting vermin or to provide that game enemies may be destroyed when they acquire per- verted appetites as they often do when a big lot of young game birds and eggs are spread out to tempt them. 1
The fact that the stomachs of “bene- ficials’”” only show mice in places where there is no game and where mice are plentiful does not prove conclusively that eggs and young birds will not be eaten when. they are more plentiful and more easy to procure than mice.
It seems absurd for people who know nothing about the natural history of the rearing fields to attempt to make laws which tend to destroy a food-producing industry. The country is large. There is plenty of room for laws which amuse those engaged in seeking them every year. All that we ask is that they be not applied to game farms where they sure- ly will reduce the number of the game birds.
DECREASE IN PRAIRIE CHICKENS.
By J. P. TurNeEr,
Past-Secretary Manitoba Game Protective Association.
In spite of all the protective legisla- tion enacted in the older settled areas formerly occupied by either the pinnated or sharp-tailed grouse, the birds are not increasing or even holding their own, and in our own province the fact is being brought home to us that they are reach- ing a point of alarming scarcity. Some think the prairie chickens are making their last stand on the Canadian prairies ; others believe that the extreme scarcity of birds will be gradually righted by na- ture’s laws; still others claim that the hunter plays no appreciable part in the decrease of birds; and too many give the question no thought whatever.
During the last few years, and more especially at the present time, the steady decrease in the number of prairie chicken has been the source of much wonder, speculation and argument. The question is controversial to the last degree, for the reason that there is no final author- ity to consult, no arbiter before whom to lay the innumerable claims, and no one, in fact, who would care to assume so
risky an honor. In vain, it would seem, have many reasons been put forward to account for the growing scarcity of birds ; and doubt still exists, as it will continue to do, insofar as the basic cause of this scarcity is concerned ; but a careful peru- sal of the more pronounced perils to which the whole grouse family is to-day being subjected, will suggest that the prairie chicken’s ranks have become sadly thinned, not so much from any specific agency as from an accumulation of adverse causes. Any one of these natural causes embraces a menace to the birds which they are able to overcome, but collectively, and if applied continu- ously, they spell disaster when reinforced: by man’s baneful influence.
To locate the outstanding natural ene- mies of the prairie chicken is not difficult.
Leaving aside the possibility of disease epidemic (of which we have no record, if it does exist), we ought to be able to reduce these agencies of destruction to a group, to which, in whole or in part, we can feel justified in attributing the
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scarcity of birds so far as Nature is con- cerned. Disease naturally suggests itself, for grouse of all kinds have become scarce on the continent, and it is evident that their reduction in numbers is due, in large measure, to a common cause or combination of causes. Epidemics are known to attack different species when abnormal overproduction upsets the laws which govern the true balance of Nature. We have a common and constantly re- curring example of this in the periodical Ancrease and decrease of the varying hare, or “bush rabbit” as it is more com- monly called. In Europe and Great Britain, where most game is artificially raised on preserves, this same fact is thoroughly understood, and overproduc- tion is carefully guarded against. But to apply this theory by way of explana- tion to our ever-decreasing grouse, is merely to enter the field of useless argu- ment. It is well known that none of the native game birds are nearly as plentiful on this continent as in the earliest days of settlement ; and though we are told of, or remember, “off years” when this or that species became temporarily scarce from natural causes, we also know that never in the memory of the oldest inhabi- tant did the prairie chicken decrease to such a low point as is the case at pres-
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ent. To suggest the possibility of an epidemic of disease from other causes than overproduction is to conjure up the improbable. aS ele Among all-of the more common species of mammals and birds, to say nothing of insects, Nature has provided that there shall be an over-abundant natural repro- duction. This is an infallible law and one absolutely essential to the perpetu- ation of most species. The reason for this is readily apparent. The ratio of destruction, by natural means, must be overcome by a corresponding ratio of increase, or, failing in this, the species will become abnormally scarce or prac- tically non-existent. If a species is known to reproduce at a high rate an- nually and yet does not show a resultant general increase in numbers as time goes on, and its numbers remain about sta- tionary, then the ratio of destruction in that species is merely counterbalanced by its reproducing powers. Thus does Nature maintain her true balance. Working from this hypothesis, we can say conclusively that the ratio of destruc-
tion among the grouse of America has
been, of late, far in excess of their
powers of reproduction, and that Na- ture’s balance has been upset in such a way as to bring several species to a low ebb.
NOTES FROM THE STATE GAME DEPARTMENTS.
We published reports from a number of State game officers last month, most of whom believe that game breeding and the sale of game produced by industry should be encouraged and not prevented by law. Rapidly all.of the State game officers are adopting the idea that food birds should not be placed in the song bird list and that the departments should be of economic importance; that field sports should not be prohibited.
Where a little game breeding is en- couraged in various parts of a State the necessity for close seasons quickly disap- pears as it did on Long Island, N. Y., where recently the State game officer
(who has the right to declare a closed
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season and to put both the shooters and ~
the food produceis out of business) when appealed to by the enemies of sport to do this decided that it was not neces- sary or proper to close the shooting. This is true because the quail clubs keep the birds plentiful. All of the sportsmen in the State can go to Long Island and be sure of finding quail. “en ea When all the patriotic State officers be- come fully aware that by encouraging game breeding by all who wish to go into the industry they will put an end to the necessity for closed seasons and that
every one will find better shooting than
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there is at present, we believe an end will be put to the activities of non-resi- _dent mischief makers who by using vast sums of money often are able to put an end to sport and to tood producing. We are much pleased with the good sense expressed in many letters written by State game officers who sincerely wish to perpetuate sport.
Ohio.
Hon. John C. Speaks, chief warden for Ohio, reports: “Under pheasant breed- ers’ permits, Chinese, Mongolian and English ring-necked pheasants may be propagated, killed and sold. The sale of black bass, rock bass, blue gills and crop- pies is prohibited. Licenses are issued to game breeders. See section 1412-1.”
Section 1412-1 reads: “It shall be law- ful for any citizen of the State of- Ohio to engage in the business of raising and selling domesticated English ring-neck, Mongolian or Chinese pheasants on lands of which he is the owner or lessee. Any person desiring to engage in the propaga- tion of the birds herein mentioned shall make application in writing to the Secre- tary of Agriculture for a permit and upon payment of a fee of fifty cents, shall be granted a hreeder’s license per- mitting such applicant to breed and raise for commercial purposes the birds above enumerated, under the regulations herein set forth.”
Evidently there should be a comma after “English and before “ring-neck,” since the so-called English or dark-necked pheasant is not a ring-necked pheasant and the intention of the legislature was, no doubt, to permit the breeding of English pheasants as well as ring-necks, commonly called Chinese ring-necked pheasants. As a matter of fact the dark- necked species and the ring-necked spe- cies have been inter-bred so much that pure bred birds are comparatively rare in the English markets and on many American game farms and preserves there are many English and ring-necked pheasants and hybrids of the two species which are equally good for sporting pur- poses and for the table.
When pheasants are sold in Ohio, “a tag bearing the name, initials or regis-
“cc
tered trade-mark of licensee” is required. The tags cost 2 cents each.
Colorado.
Hon. W. B. Fraser, Game and Fish Commissioner of Colorado, says Colorado permits and encourages the breeding of game and game fish for sale as food. Licenses are issued to breeders (see sec- tion 2866) and the game sold is identified by tags ‘which cost 1 cent each.
Section 2866 referred to provides for licenses as follows: for each quadruped park, ten years license, $100; 2 years license, $25. For each bird park, ten years license; $25; 2 years license, $10. For renewals of ten year licenses the fees are for quadruped parks, $75; for - bird parks, $20. For each lake, two years license for first lake, $10; for each
renewal of same, $8. For each lake, two
years license for each additional lake, $5; for each renewal of same, each addi- tional lake, ‘$3; for each lake, ten years license for first lake, $25; for each renewal of same, $15; for each-lake, ten years license, each additional lake, $10; for each renewal of same, each additional lake, $5; for each preserve, two years license, $10; for each renewal of same, $8 ; for each preserve, ten years license, $25; for each renewal of same, $15; for each permit for transportation out of State the fees are: For each elk, edible portion, $10; for each mountain sheep, edible portion, $5; tor each deer, edible portion, $5; for each bird, edible portion, 25 cents; for each fish, edible portion, 25 cents.
The commissioner says live birds can be trapped for propagation and scientific purposes, under regulations 2765 and Division J.
Section 2765 provides for licenses for private parks and preserves and permits the owners to propagate and sell the game and fish therein or to be placed therein. Division J relates to the taking of animals to be mounted or used as specimens.
Utah.
R. H. Siddoway, State Fish and Game Commissioner of Utah reports: ‘The propagation of trout for sale as food is very much encouraged in this State and
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we have a great many private hatcheries. Trout are raised exclusively, in these hatcheries.
“There is very little game breeding here and we have no regulations for iden- tification of game sold by breeders. Tags are not used as yet.
“Live birds can be trapped for scien- tific purposes only by our State institu- tions, such as the University of Utah and the Agriculture College at Logan. Private individuals cannot secure such permits.”
Texas.
W. W. Wood, Game and Fish Commis- sioner of Texas, says the State permits and encourages the breeding of fish for sale as food but not game. Any species of fish can be sold. No licenses are is- sued to breeders. Game cannot be sold for propagation.
Kentucky.
J. Quincy Ward, Executive Agent for Kentucky, reports that his State permits and encourages the breeding and sale of all species of game and fish under permit. There is no charge for permits. The
game sold is identified by metal tags for @ which no charge is made. r
Kentucky seems to be running well up with Massachusetts. Prairie grouse once were so plentiful in Kentucky that Audubon says they were regarded as pests. We believe and predict that these birds will again be shot and eaten in great abundance in Kentucky although there is not a prairie grouse in the State to-day.
Idaho.
W. H. Thorp, Chief Deptity Game Warden for Idaho, reports that game fish can be sold as food—rainbow and Eastern brook trout, from private ponds only, under special permit.
Game cannot be sold alive for propaga- tion. Live birds can be trapped for scientific purposes only under special per- mit.
It would appear that Idaho is sadly behind the times. The Game Breeder is not as extensively circulated in Idaho as it should be. There should be a special fund for educational purposes in Idaho such as we have had for some other States where common sense now pre- vails.
NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES.
Trout Breeding.
The breeding of trout literally is boom- ing in many places. There are many large commercial hatcheries and their owners are making money. Some of the clubs now have excellent trout hatcheries and keep their streams and ponds full of trout. Many country places have little ponds for trout and there are some ex- cellent lakes which are being stocked with bass.
The Game Market.
The market for live game which opened very strong seemed to have a quiet period but the demand for stock birds again is increasing and we predict all the game offered excepting some “near mallards” of doubtful flying quali- ties will be sold at excellent prices.
The market for dead game is very strong, of course, on account of no game being imported and everything offered from the big shoots will be sold at splen- did prices. Even the “near mallards” will find a ready sale when killed “other- wise than by shooting. %
The Ege Market.
We predict the demand for eggs will be bigger as the breeding season ap- proaches than-ever before. The activi- ties of hundreds of commercial and sport- ing breeders has stimulated the State game officers to produce more abund- antly on the many State game farms. Thousands of birds have been sold to the State officers at splendid prices and they
no doubt will purchase many eggs. .
We are glad to observe that some peo-. —
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ple who are not suitable for military duty: have accepted our idea that it is patriotic to produce and shoot game abundantly and to thus conserve the ba- con and the beef.
Bob-White a “Singer”
‘The Game Commissioner of Michigan says: “Under the close season this bird has made a gratifying increase. Owing to its recognized value to the farmer as an insect and weed-seed destroyer it is doubtful if sentiment will again allow of its being taken as a game bird, unless an unlooked for increase wpouls justify an open season.’
In the same report the commissioner urges that the taking of foxes for prop- agation and profitable breeding should be permitted at all seasons. Since quail sell for $36 per dozen and sometimes more, it would seem to be a good idea to suggest the trapping of breeding stock under permits and the careful breeding of quail for profit in protected fields where foods and covers have been espe- cially planted for the birds and where their natural enemies are controlled be- cause it pays to do so. We would re- spectfully ask the commissioner if he knows of any good reason why a farmer should not make the quail tremendously plentiful and profitable on his farm if he prefers to engage in quail breeding in- stead of going into the fox business— or even the skunk business, which is thriving in Michigan.
Surely the sportsmen can not com- plain since the commissioner points out the fact that at present the quail is only a singer and not a sporting or food bird and that it probably never will be re- garded as a broiler. We can assure the commissioner that quail are very good to eat and that it is a very easy and in- expensive matter to keep them plentiful although thousands be eaten every sea- son. No one can be expected to do this, however, unless it pays. Few know how easy it is to have plenty of quail. Plans and specifications are furnished in The Game Breeder, $1.00 per year.
in Michigan.
How to Become a Member of the Game Guild. :
The Game Guild is an important com-
mittee of the Game Conservation So-
ciety. It certifies the advertisements of
members; investigates complaints and requires absolutely fair dealing. It promptly answers letters and inquiries of members on all subjects. The cost of membership is $1.00 per annum. To become a member of the guild it is necessary to send a reference in cases where the member of the society, or advertiser, is not personally known to one of the officers of the society who can endorse the applicant.
The mail of the society and its pub- lication is much heavier, no doubt, than the mail of an ordinary story magazine. Hundreds of letters keep coming, asking about the breeding industry, the laws, the prices for game, etc., etc. The amount expended for postage is very large and the money received from guild members is used to enable the society to handle this mail and to investigate complaints, etc. There are a few con- tributing members who pay $5.00 per year to help keep up the work of the guild. These contributions are volun- tary. The society wishes the guild to have a large and influential membership and for this reason the dues have been placed at $1.00. The amount will enable the guild to carry on its work if the membership increases as the industry grows in importance.
Not “Near Mallards.”
The Game Conservation Society:
The birds on the front cover of the September Game Breeder are mallards, true in markings and shape. A Massa- chusetts breeder sent me one several years since, an exact brother of the male portrayed. I have him yet. He has grown heavy and clumsy with the years, but his descendants still show the boot shape and right markings. The larger part of my birds are “near-mallards,” and better for decoy use and of my patrons than wild birds. I am only a game student, but I think I know per- ” fect birds.
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-'T have interesting experiences with my black ducks, in studying their habits and likes and dislikes. I almost seem to have a charm for wild game and have little trouble in taming them. I have one red- legged black drake that was caught at the lake, a large northern type, so tame that he eats from my hand and follows me all around the lots. He goes and comes as he pleases but always hunts me up directly he returns from a trip. An- other black was caught last spring in a -rat trap, a large strong bird. He also has been so -tamed that he goes and comes as he pleases also. My greatest trouble is in getting the captured birds _ to breed. They mate but the females do not lay. Two splendid blacks on free
range only laid one egg each and two ~ ant eggs that failed to hatch this season
others mated and did not lay an egg
this past season. All are practically free on brook, swale and good range. Three others would not mate but made nests and set on and hatched mallard eggs. One now is leading a fine flock of young mallards from wild eggs, a part of which . she stole from the other blacks that batched them. I have no trouble with . the mallards, but the blacks are different ._ some way. If you could suggest any . way to induce mating or to get them to lay when they do mate I would be grate- ful.
Vermont. F. S. Morgan.
[Many readers report the same difficulty.
One season we purchased a lot of young black -
ducks which had been bred from tame stock and the birds nested’ fairly well beside a pond. We stole some of their eggs and hatched them under hens. At many of the duck clubs black ducks are hatched and reared every sea- son for decoys. We hope the problem of breeding large numbers will be solved.— Enprror. |
Pheasants, Game Laws and Cats.
Editor, Game Breeder:
I am not one of the old subscribers to your valued paper, which I find of great interest.
We are not the largest producers of game in the country, neither have we been in the game-producing business as - long as many of your readers no doubt have, but we have for a great number of
years been close observers of game birds in the wild state, have watched the effects of. different acts of legislation and laws regulating sportsmen. We also have no- ticed that inquiries from the East espe- cially are for birds in trios when used for restocking the game fields.
Now the writer is not familiar with your eastern game laws but you likely have some that are very good and some that, like some of ours out here, are rot- ten. At least that is what I think’ of some of. them.
For instance, game birds are liberated m trios for breeding purposes. Our game laws here: at this special season specify that cocks only may be killed. There is. already a serious shortage of cock birds and the large number of Chinese pheas-
in this locality bears mute testimony to this fact. Next season will be worse in this way unless all signs fail.
The game breeders, as a rule, are will- ing to furnish birds in trios (at a slight- ly higher price than in pairs) when wanted for liberation by gun clubs or state departments, but I for one serious- ly question the wisdom of this procedure. Take the Chinese ringneck pheasant for example, he is one of our very finest game birds and while polygamous in captivity there is room for conjecture whether he will so mate in the wild state in the © fields.
I also see articles of different kinds. published in your paper from various sec- tions of the country regarding experi- ences of subscribers in game production. These are all interesting but one must consider that this, our country, is so vast in area, presenting climatic and local — conditions so unlike that what is good in — one place will not answer in another.
There is one thing, however, that I would suggest to every sportsman whem he is out hunting and that is this: When- ever you see a stray cat better shoot it, — as it will mean probably at least fifty
_ additional game birds for next year. This.
year I know of a cat that killed a pheas- ant hen on her nest of seventeen eggs, broke most of the eggs, and a few days later and before I could get a shot at her killed seven out of a brood of blue quail.
saan iil ide at tl
‘used to scare away the coyotes
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‘This almost equals the record of the wild- est pot hunter.
Oregon is a great state for game and
splendid trout streams, and here at Sil-
verton, which is at the very foothills of the mighty Cascades we have ideal con- ditions for both hunting and fishing. In-
deed no greater paradise for game birds
could probably exist than the Willamette Valley—barring pot hunters and cats. Oregon. C. A. Benson. [The modern breeders often purchase four or five hens for each cock. They get excellent results breeding the pheasants in small pens containing one cock and five hens and also in large pens where 25 or even a hundred hens are confined with from 5 to 25 cocks. The eggs gathered are fertile—Eprror. | A Use of Black Sporting Powder Not Generally Known to the Public.
The du Ponts send the following:
“Do you know that black sporting pow- der is used for lambing purposes? While the season for this year is past, this in- formation may be worth remembering.
“Black powder is used for this pur- pose in many western states. In Wyom- ing especially a great many kegs are used in the course of a year. The powder is
wolves at night, so that they will not get the young lambs. The sheep are bunched at night, as a rule, and the sheep-herder puts out a few pans and at intervals dur- ing the night ‘goes the rounds,’ putting a small charge of black powder in each pan, then lighting it.
“Some herders use the powder in a shotgun.
“There are three theories as to why the above keeps the coyotes and wolves away. One is that the smell of the pow- der is disliked and the undesired ani- mals will not go near. Another is that seeing the flash of fire which is made by the powder, they are scared away. The other as reference to the gun, and, of course, it is assumed that the noise from it naturally scares them,
“No doubt the powder companies can and will supply full information on this subject.”
[Black powder we find also works nicely on stray dogs and cats, crows, hawks, skunks
’ and others that visit game rearing fields.—
Editor.]
and
Game Breeding in Texas.
Although the Texas state game officer reports that game breeding is not encour- aged by legislation in his state, the peo- ple seem to be going in for it.
Mr. C. N. McElheny, one of our Texas members, sending the following clippings says: “They may interest your readers showing that the doctrine of game pro- tection and propagation has reached the boundaries of our country.”
Establishes Game Preserve.
San Angelo, Texas, Dec, 12.—Five thousand acres of range sixteen miles south of here has been fenced by J. D. Shipman, a Tom Green county ranchman, with wolfproof fence for a game preserve. He is now making et- forts to get a number of deer, antelope and buffalo for the preserve.
Soldiers and Armadillos.
In twelve counties lying northwest of San Antonio is the greatest game preserve for wild turkeys perhaps in all the United States. In one or two counties is one land owner who claims more turkeys than any other man in the world. About much of his property he has erected a twelve-foot game’ fence for the protection of both deer and turkey, confining them in a great preserve and contributing to both their protection and their reproduction, granting hunting permits only to hunters of responsibility and game appre-
ciation.
The sheep and goat men say that when coyotes were destroyed or driven from that
section upon the advent of the sheep and goat
industry the turkeys multiplied rapidly, but that, in the last few years, upon the advent of thousands of armadillos from the south, wild turkeys and quail are not multiplying so rapidly.
I have personally interviewed a great num- ber of people in that section in the last few years, who expressed generally the opinion that armadillos are very destructive of wild turkey eggs, driving the hens from their nest. This explanation is general, and is universally accepted. While a number of ranchmen say they have been eyew'tnesses to the destruction of chickens’ eggs by armadillos about their houses, and, while others have found arma- dillos in close proximity to turkey nests with eggs destroyed, showing signs of the ravages of little animal, I have found only one man, Marvin Bode, Noxville, Kimble County, Texas, who says he has personally witnessed an armadillo destroy wild turkey eggs in the hen’s nest.
West and south of San Antonio, especially since the concentration of troops from vari- ous States of the Union, are hundreds of men
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and boys engaged in the destruction of arma- dillos for the sake of their armors, which are sold in local markets or sent to Northern homes, who, unaware of the destruction of the breeding places of wild game, consider the killing of armadillos an act of commercialism, but they do not know that these hunters of armadillos are benefactors to wild game and birds and to the State.
I recommend that the Legislature place a bounty on armadillos, ground squirrels and paisanos, or chaparral cocks, all of which, by general consent, are destructive of bird eggs and young birds.
WEsLeEY PEACOCK. The News, San Antonio. It is interesting to learn that the
soldiers are acting as game keepers. We
WHY THE PRAIRIE CHICKENS VANISH.
Some Letters from Saskatchewan.
The following abstracts from letters give some of the reasons for the extirpa- tion of a most valuable wild food bird which a few years ago was abundant in the Province.
Vermin.
Mr. D. Findley writes: “There is no doubt at all but that the crows destroy a great num- ber of eggs and also young chickens. A crow dropped a chicken in my yard last spring when flying over the town, and I feel sure they do considerable damage to prairie chickens and other birds.”
George Lang says: “The crow is undoubt- edly the greatest enemy of our game birds. .They were in flocks of thousands here last fall about the time the shooting season opened. Of course, at that time they do no harm to speak of, but during the hatching season last spring they destroyed 60 per cent of the mal- lard eggs in this district. On the experimental farm we lost in 1915, by actual count, sixty- eight of our domestic fowl. We repeatedly saw the crows taking them, but they were so cunning that we were unable to shoot many. This past season we commenced to shoot and poison them as soon as they arrived in the spring. We destroyed their nests wherever found and so discouraged them that it was a rare sight to see a crow around the farm.”
W. G. Swift writes: “I have seen a covey of twelve chickens cleaned out by a single
hawk.” Wires.
TOR; Irving writes: “I have lived here’ for the last thirty-four years and have never seen chickens so scarce, I consider that immense
farms and preserves. We believe the
‘~pinnated grouse that they have picked up this
would like to hear from the Oneida Com-' — munity what would be the best trap for armadillos to be used on Texas game
state will be a great game-producing ~ state before long. Our circulation is in- | creasing rapidly in Texas. When they
_have ranches in Texas often they are big
ones and there is plenty of room for some corking big game ranches which should make from ten to one hundred thousand dollars a year for their owners. Many of our members now write that the game is the most profitable live stock on their _ places. oi
numbers of birds are killed annually by flying « against telephone wires. I have picked up dozens of birds with broken necks under the wires.”
George Lang says: “You will note that I make reference to the telephone wires as an- other source of destruction to the chickens. I believe that this is a matter worth looking into sometime in the near future. I know that in districts in Scotland where grouse and pheasants are to be found it is the custom to hang strips of wash tin on the wires in order that the birds may see that there is something in their line of flight.
_ “TI have found many chickens in the last few years that had been killed in this manner. There is a family of children here who walk in to school from a mile in the country. A few days ago they brought me the seventh
winter along this one mile of wire.”
Fires.
G. O. Robertson writes: “Prairie fires in the past have had something to do with de- stroying the nests of prairie chickens.”
Wm. Speddington writes: “I have often seen in going over newly burnt land the nest of prairie chickens destroyed as well as the mother bird which had stayed on the nest until suffocated.”
W. A. Abbott writes: “I notice that as the country is being settled, places where the chickens were in the habit of breeding are being brought under cultivation and conse- — quently destroyed. The chickens have entirely disappeared from this district where the set- tlers have burned off the grass previous to breaking up the land.”
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Climate.
Wm. Noble writes: “The hail storms last summer killed a large number of chickens in this district.”
A. C. Budd says: “The majority of people here report a very poor hatch of domestic fowl probably through heavy rains and thun- der storms. I had three settings due out June 1, and all but fourteen were dead in the shell probably caused by the shock of the heavy thunder which would very likely damage prairie chickens in the same way.”
Farm Implements.
R, A. Hewitt writes: “Last spring when ploughing I ran over two nests before I saw them. The birds had been setting some time but the eggs did not appear to be incubating.”
Dogs. Carrol W. Dodge writes: “In this district there are at least forty wolf hounds within eight miles of my place and in the spring and early summer I can see them ranging . the country hunting nests and in the sloughs after ducks.”
Many people report an alarming scarc- ity of prairie chickens and say they are vanishing.
S. L. R. Clarke writes: “Among all the hunters I have interviewed this season, not one in fifty shot any prairie chickens. This is alarming when compared with the chickens of a few years ago.”
J. Burgiss writes: “I do not know what has happened to the prairie chickens, but they seem to have disappeared altogether, I am of the opinion that last year there were twenty-five birds to where there is one now.”
H. J. Edington writes: “The prairie chicken is a rare thing to be seen in my locality. Two years ago they were very plentiful.”
The remedy suggested by some is a closed season for a term of years. Such a law will have no effect whatsoever on the causes for the decrease in the number of chickens above mentioned. Nesting places and natural foods will be de- stroyed more and more as population in- creases; there will be, undoubtedly, some illegal shooting since the grouse is very good to eat. At the end of the closed season, if it be not extended, a very little shooting will be sufficient to put an end to the prairie grouse forever in the few places where the birds may occur.
If a law permitting and encouraging the breeding of grouse for sport and for profit can be enacted, shooting clubs can be formed to look after the birds and te see that they be not destroyed by natural
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enemies by fires and farm machinery, and the losses due to climate can be miti- gated. Clubs with very small dues can make and keep the grouse very plentiful although thousands of birds be shot every season, and since the birds will go out from the preserved areas they will be found in the stubbles for miles about. In this way the quail clubs of the Eastern and Southern States have saved the quail and quail shooting not only for the club members but also for those who take no interest in game preserving.
The trap shooting clubs have trap shooting because they procure their traps and targets and provide for the sport. There is plenty of room for thousands of game shooting clubs which easily can have plenty of prairie chickens and other game, not only for themselves but for the people to eat, since if the game is properly looked after it becomes so abundant that the club members can not eat all they shoot and they can sell some to pay the expenses of a game keeper and the rental of nesting grounds, small areas which should be kept quiet and full of cover and food and safe from vermin and farm machinery.
The Game Breeder is always glad to give advice about the formation of game clubs to those who wish to perpetuate field sports.
The Game Breeder does not do much in the way of soliciting advertisements as those who use it know. Most of the breeders when they liave anything to sell know what the result will be if they an- nounce the fact and send us their adver- tisements.
The Game Conservation Society much prefers to have the magazine fully supported by members of the society who contribute because they believe in the work being accomplished.
Always purchase from those who ad- vertise. By so doing you help the cause. Why should you buy from those who do not help?
It is now time to advertise eggs for spring delivery.
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‘The Game Breeder
PuBLISHED MONTHLY
Epitep sy DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1917.
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Telephone, Beekman 3685.
When quail, in swarms, take to culti- vated beans, “like a drunkard to drink,” as a New Mexican farmer says his quail do, it is time to reduce some of the valu- able insect and weed destroyers to broil- ers. New York hotels will pay the best prices as soon as food producing is thor- oughly legal.
Our readers will be interested in the account of how the soldiers stationed in Texas kill armadillos sent by Mr. C. N. McElheny and printed on another page. This army of game keepers should pro- duce big results, although it seems they are not aware they are performing the duties of game keepers.
Our readers will be especially inter- _ ested in the report of the court’s de- cision in the Adirondack beaver case. Many of them will remember Harry Rad- ford, who was associated with the edi- tor of The Game Breeder when the movement for “more game” was start- ed and who was writing and sending us an account of his explorations in the Arctic regions until he was killed by the Eskimos.
Radford quickly accepted the idea that it was a good plan to devote more of ‘our energies to procuring and producing game and that we might well make a few hundred fewer game laws every season. He it was who-secured the legis- lation authorizing the state to purchase
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and liberate the beaver in the Adiron- -
dacks, and we are quite sure were he alive today he would agree with us that the beavers should not be permitted to run out of the park and destroy pri- vate property in a wholesale fashion. The court, no doubt, decided that the proper remedy should be sought from the legislature. Other states, however, have held that the owner might shoot
the trespassing state animals. In Massa-
chusetts a farmer who shot deer found eating his crop and in New Hampshire a farmer who shot a mink which threat- ened his geese were held to be within their rights. :
The New York court in holding that damages could not be recovered from
the state for damages done by state beav-
ers expressly did not decide what would happen if some one should blaze away at a buck in a peach orchard or at a skunk in a poultry yard.
The precedents in so far as we have examined them seem to make it fairly safe for game farmers and game keep- ers to use the shotgun and the Oneida traps to control the enemies of game when they attempt to put an end to a food-producing industry. i
THE GAME DINNER.
When the matter of our annual game _
dinner was discussed the writer voted not to have it this year. ‘We reluctantly
announced in the October issue that the —
invitations would be issued. ‘"
We are pleased to announce that the matter has been reconsidered. There will
be no game dinner this year, and the few _
hundred dollars usually expended will
be used, with some other money, in an — important experiment with live game— — the most important work, in our opin- —
ion, ever planned by the society.
There are two very good reasons why —
we should not have the game dinner. It
would seem to be rather heartless to be
feasting on game just at this time and
several of our members urged that the dinner would not be. timely or proper.
Another reason, a selfish one, is that the .younger .men all being. away, the
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work of the dinner would fall very large- ly on the writer, although some of those who favored the dinner said they would do part of the work. It seemed likely we would have to abandon a trip south to lay in our’ winter supply of quail.
‘We are delighted at the prospect of using the money for a field experiment and we are quite sure when the war is over our members will appreciate the
game we will then be able to serve at
our game dinners.
We shall make our Peace Dinner the biggest game dinner ever given in New York.
SMALL DINNERS.
We hope and believe there will be many small dinners where game will be served and eaten as a patriotic duty by those who must remain at home.
We propose to substitute quail on toast for bacon for our breakfast, often, in order to save the bacon for export. We
are glad that we can begin with Long
Island birds (November vintage) since this food-producing area has been kept open. We know where we can go, in the South, and lay in a stock of quail for home consumption during the winter. We propose to eat pheasants and ducks
_ often and an occasional wild turkey (sav-
ing’ some of the big bird for turkey hash with fried sweet potatoes for breakfast, a favorite dish) and in this way we will save the beef for export. Since Uncle Sam positively refused to take us on ac- count of our antiquity, we are glad that we can show our patriotism by saving ba- con and the beef in the way we have indicated. We hope many of our old and decrepid members, who still shoot,
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We have just been reading a letter from an enterprising member who re-
_ cently began game breeding in the West.
He says he will shoot a few thousand pheasants this season, but will save a larger breeding stock than usual. doubt his neighbors, for miles about, will dine occasionally on pheasants since most people know they are very good to eat and are willing to pot them when they put in an appearance, thus saving beef.
At many hotels and restaurants Tues-
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day has been made a meatless day. We would suggest that this and one other day each week be made a game-eating day. We are quite sure that many small dinner parties can be made up to eat the excess game produced by our members now that it can come to New York with- out any one being arrested. It is not so very long ago that an attempt was made to “sit down” on us when we proposed, at a meeting of the Protective Associa- tion, the horrible idea that New York people should have some game to eat and that the money paid for it would
flow out to produce more game.
Our members will send many tons of game to New York this season and they will receive many thousands of dollars for it. This may seem shocking to those who want one more game law but it does. not seem so to those patriotic souls who like to eat game and are willing to help out in the crisis by substituting quail and ducks and pheasants for the bacon and the beef.
We hope there will be many small game dinners to replace the big feast of the society.
ALARM ABOUT THE GROUSE.
Two groups of conservationists are much alarmed about the status of the prairie grouse and the sharp-tailed grouse, two of the best wild food birds in the world. Those who believe in prac- tical protection and propagation will de- vote their energies to the breeding of grouse for sport and for profit; the old-style game law enthusiasts will devote their energies to the securing of more laws intended to send anyone to jail who has grouse in his possession or who attempts to breed the game for sport or for food.
Laws prohibiting the shooting and eat- ing of this desirable bird, of course, make it not worth while for anyone to look after it properly; to see that it has covers and foods; that it be not de- stroyed by natural enemies, and also by fires, floods, telegraph wires, dogs, cats and other destructive agencies due to civ- iljzation.
We print in this issue some interesting notes from the report of the chief game
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guardian of the Province of Saskatche- wan. The grouse were tremendously plentiful in the province only a few years ago but seem to be vanishing and will continue to do so even if shooting be pro- hibited provided their covers and foods be destroyed and no one looks after the game. A few game farms where grouse are reared for profit; a few grouse- shooting clubs where the grouse are kept plentiful for sport no doubt soon would show that the game can be saved, but we are quite sure the birds will vanish if the only effort to save them: consists of laws making it not worth while for any one to look after them.
We have a decided opinion that the grouse not only can be saved but that they quickly can be made an abundant food supply for all of the people.
The red grouse in Scotland was not very plentiful a few generations ago but it soon became abundant and cheap in the English markets when the people decided to look after the birds and found it paid to do so. If Scotland can keep the English markets full of cheap grouse without fear of extermination what will happen when even a small part of the
vast grouse areas of the United States .
and Canada, where grouse were abun- dant, are properly utilized?
OUR POLICY.
Often The Game Breeder seems to be misrepresented by people who ‘believe in having more game laws. We have said repeatedly that we believe the taking of public game or game on public lands and waters should be regulated by laws pro- viding for open seasons, to end with the breeding season. We believe it is neces- sary to have very short open seasons and to prohibit the taking of many birds in some States and that soon it will be nec- essary to stop shooting for terms of years in places where no one looks after the game. A
We believe, however, that food pro- ducers who produce thousands of birds every season should not be governed by laws putting an end to shooting or limit- ing the bag to a few birds in a year. They should be encouraged to sell all
provided they identify their game under simple and reasonable regulations. We have become converted to the idea that permits to produce game should be issued without charge. The State which so is- sues permits finds they are perfectly sat- isfactory.
or : the game they wish to sell alive or dead,
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SHOOT- ING.
The area for public shooting in Amer- ica is very large. There are vast areas of uncultivated and wild land where there is no objection to anyone shooting game. There are vast bays, lakes, rivers and public marshes where anyone can shoot.
Most of the cultivated lands are posted — against trespassers and there should be no possible objection to their owners producing thousands of game birds for sport and for food if they wish to do so. Many report that their abundant game — is now the most valuable live stock on the place.
People are permitted to drain marshes which they own and make them unin- — habitable for wild ducks; they are per- — mitted, without objection, to so cultivate — the fields that not a grouse or quail can — survive. We believe it would be far bet- — ter for sport for all hands if such marshes and fields can be made, as they have been in many places, to yield an abundance of game tor those who look — after it and produce it. We know that much game escapes from such places and we have found the shooting in the neigh- borhood of such places much improved because many birds escaped and often bred in the surrounding territory.
The farmers are becoming more and more opposed to field sports. They have good reason to object to many trespassers - shooting up their places without permis- sion. We believe they should he encour- aged to produce game for profit that they can be induced in many places to rent the shooting for a reasonable amount to syn- dicates of sportsmen who will deal fairly with the land owners.
It is a very good time to advertis stock birds for breeding purposes.
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_ Profitable and Promising.
Mr. I. Rabb, of the Marmot Pheas- antry, writes: “I have demonstrated to my own Satisfaction, at least, that pheas- ants can be raised on a scale that will bring better returns on the investment than any other line of live stock. If the new breeders will go slow and profit by their own and other’s mistakes this coun- try will never again be compelled to im- port her game birds.
“You people are doing a great work and you certainly have my best wishes for your success.”
Letters like the above help keep up the enthusiasm of the toilers in the office. They seem especially good when the faith there is in them is accompanied by good work, as in the case of Mr. Rabb, who sent in the space advertisement of the Marmot Pheasantry which appears on
. another page.
We predict it will not be long, Mr. Rabb, before you are informed that we are not doing it just right; that some of our ideas are “fair to middling,” but that it will be far betier to go a little slow and to procure a few more restrictions, and one or two more laws prohibiting the use of pump guns before the pheas- ant business can be freely tolerated.
‘We are informed in a recent letter from the Far West that there is more money in the business of getting restric- tive game laws than there is in game breeding. This was true a year or two ago but we believe now there is as much (if not more) money invested in the new food producing industry, as there is in the industry of getting more game laws. There were 70 fewer game laws enacted —at a recent session—in one State in which we are much interested than were
enacted the previous session, we are told.
Fewer Rattlesnakes—More Quail.
San Angelo, Texas.—Eight pounds of rat- tlesnake oil was sold in San Angelo this week by John Blakemore, an Irion County ranch- man. This amount of oil was extracted from forty-eight diamond rattlers and was sold for $115.20. :
We do not know just how many snakes _ it takes to produce eight nounds of rat- _ tlesnake oil worth $115.20, but we do
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know that the destruction of the snakes means more quail for the snakes’. for- mer habitat.
Always Remember.
When you wish to purchase game al- ways remember that those who adver- tise in The Game Breeder should have your orders because they contribute to the making of game breeding possible.
OUTINGS AND INNINGS.
His ORDERS..
“Well, did you get any orders to-day?” asked the book agent’s wife.
“Yes,” replied the book agent. “I got two orders in one place. One was to get out and the other was to stay out.” — Cincinnati Enquirer.
CAMOUFLAGE. -
Our idea of camouflage is when a bald-headed man wears a skull-cap.— Galveston News.
Stole a Pig and Away He Flew.
A taxidermist is mounting a golden eagle, measuring seven feet from tip to tip, that Henry Goodman killed near Westervelt, Ill., as it was going aloft with a young pig in its four-inch talons.
Cure for Anemia.
A Scot and an Englishman who were walking down the street together stopped to purchase a couple of rosy apples. The Englishman on taking a bite of his im- mediately began to splutter. “I believe I’ve swallowed a worm!’ he exclaimed.
“Weel, weel, mon, an’ what if ye did?” said the Scot. “ ’Twill put new life into ye 122
Gondolas in the Park.
Once upon a time a city alderman of- fered a resolution that twenty gondolas be purchased and placed on the lake in the park, Another member of the board, under the impression. that the gondola was an ornamental water-fowl, moved, in the interest of economy, that they purchase a male and a female gondola, and let nature take its course.
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912,
OF THE GAME BEEEDEE. published monthly at New
York, N. Y., for October, Ast, 1917.
State of New York, County of New York, 38 :—Before me. a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared D W. Huntington, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that hei ds. the Editor of The Game Breeder, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the. circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regula- tions, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, Managing. — editor, and business managers are: Publisher, The Game- Conservation Society, Inc., Post Office address, 150 Nassau: St , New York, N. Y. Editor, D. W. Huntingron, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y. Managing Editor, none. Business Managers, The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corpora- tion, give its name and the names and addresses of stock- — holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total — amount of stock.) The Game Conservation Society, Inc.,. 15) Nassau St., New York, N. Y. Stockholders: ©. B. Davis, Grantwood, New Jersey; A. A. Hill, (Deceased):; F. R. Peixotto, 55 John St., New York, N. Y.: D. W. Hunt-. ington, 150 Nassau St , New York, N Y.: Gc C. Huntington, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y.; Dwight Huntington, 150° Nassau St., New York, N. Y. 3. That the known bond- — holders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mort- gages, or other securities, are: (If there are none, so state.) None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and seturity holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security — holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases’ where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or
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The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York
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Can be grown in any shallow, fresh water. Ny Wild Rice is my specialty. Germination as- P & sured by special damp storage process, * I have
been able to harvest a crop of very fine seed Ia eal this year, which is now ready for shipment. NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT
Write Today for Prices and Information
CLYDE B. TERRELL
Naturalist Dept. P-14 Oshkosh, Wis. Member of The Game Guild
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corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embrac- ing affiant’s full knowledge and belief as to the circum- stances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him, D. W. Huntington, Editor of The Game Breeder. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day of September, 1917. Evererr W. Jones, Notary Public. Certificate filed in New York County, No. 100. Kings County, No. 41.
{sEAL.] (My commission expires March 30th, 1918.)
Im writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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Announcements inserted under this head in small type for 3 cents per word. If displayed in heavy type, 5 cents per word. No advertisement accepted for less
than 30 ceuts.
150 Nassau Street
Postage stamps accepted in payment. THE GAME BREEDER
New York City
LIVE GAME
FOR SALE—Ringneck Pheasants, two years old, These
are my breeding stock birds and are pinioned. $5.00 per pair. M. R. CHEESMAN, R.F.D. No. 3, Murray, Utah.
GOLDEN PHEASANTS.
$10.00 FOR 4 MALE GOLDEN PH EASANTS, YOUNG, healthy, full plumaged. The very Jast of my game. ROY E, McFEE, Canajoharie, R.D. No.2, New York, it
WILD TURKEYS—For prices see display advertisement in this 1ssue. W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Bucks County, Pa.
PHEASANTS—GOLDEN, SILVER, AMHERST, Chinese.—Wild Ge se Wild Ducks. English Beagles America’s greatest Hui.ters—bred in the wilds of the Adirondacks—hundreds of acres of range. WILLET Reels North River, N. Y., Beavermeadow Stock
arm
WANTED—ONE PAIR OF SILVER, VERSICOLOR, Swinhoe, Impeyan and Wood luck, State price, H. C. VINCENT, 514 Main Street, Joplin, Missouri it
FOR SALE-WILD MALLARD DUCKS. J. C. CHAMBERLAIN, 4o2 Security Building, Bridgeport. Conn it
FOR SALE—EIGHT PAIR HAND RAISED MAT -
laids. Sure laying stock, $38.00 per pair. JOIN KIERSCHT, Logan, Iowa, it
SIBERIAN FUR FARM, HAMILTON, CANADA;
breeds Foxes Martin, Mink, Skunks, Wild Geese, Ducks. Pheasants and Black Siberian Hares, Send 25 cents for Booklet on the latter,
PURE BRED WILD WATERFOWL AT FOLLOW.
ing prices: Mallards. $3.75 per vair. Pintails, $3 25 per pair. Green Wing Teal. $5 0o per pair. Blue Wig Ileal, $375 pel pair. Also reiheads, Gadwalls, Widgeons, Canvasbacks, Spoonbills, at reasonable prices. tor prowa- gating and scientific purposes. GEORGE J. KLEIN. Ellinwood, Kansas.
FIVE MONTHS OLD PET BLACK BEAR, $75. For sale. JOHN W. ‘1 ALBOT. South Be d, Indiana, at
FOR SALE -YOUNG 1917 FULL WING RINGNECK
cock and hen pheasants, tield bred from unrelated stock, JOHN BUTLER, Easton Game Farm, Danielson, Conn, (Route 1), 3
HOYT’S CALIFORNIA PHEASANTRY, PRICELIST, FRED D. HOYT, Hayward, California,
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GRAY STAR PHEASANTRY | Breeder of all kinds of pheasants. Eges in season. Pure brand, strong, healthy birds for sale. GIFFORD | GRAY, 21 Ward St., Orange, N. J.
FOR SA! E—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the pheasant family. Pamphlet_witn order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren Co., New Jersey. (zot!
PHEASANTS AND WILD TURKEYS.
For Sale —250 pinioned Ringneck hens, 50 cecks, tors birds, extra fine for breeders, mmesiate deliver . tooo 1917 hens full wing or pinioned, 1500 1917 cocks | full’ wing or pinioned. 100 wild turkeys, October de- livery. These birds are reared on virgin soil and are vigorous a d healthy. PORTAGE HEIGHTS GAME FARM, Akron, Ohio.
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QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND other animals. See display advertisement in this issue. WM J MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas- antry and Game Park. =
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS—
A Il mited number for sale now—the surest way to start breeding this stecies We are the oldest ano largest breeders of Canadas 1n this country Black and White Swans,Wild Ducks, etc , forsale. WHEALTON WATER FOWL FARMS, Chinccteague Island. Va.
FOR SALE—GOLDEN PHEASANTS, YOUNG
and also full plumaged, pure, healthy, of non-related stock. A'so some pure Mongolia’ males
SEIGLER, Bangor. Wis. Member of T e Game Guild
SEVERAL THOUSAND CHINESE PHEASANT
eggs for delivery season 1918. Eggs shipped every other day. BENSUN’S PHEKASAN! FARM, Silverton, Oregon, : 1t
PEAFOWL FOR SALE—FINE PEACOCKS AND
hens, o reation. Send 2sc, for book on peatow . their care and habits. SHADY BRANCH PLANIATION, Monetta,S C
PHEASANTS. FOR SALE—RINGNECKS, SILVERS, Goldens, Reeves, Lady Amhersts, Melanotus, Prince of ©
Wales Swinhoess ROBINSON BROS., Aldershot,
Ontario, Canada. it
FOR SALE—PURE BRED WILD MALLARDS, $3.00 per pair, extra fine stock, W. F. WEARY, (licensed ~ game breeder) Sac City, Iowa. it
DOMESTICATED WILD GEESE. SILVER AND Rineneck pheasants Giant Tolouse and Embden Geese, also Chinese Geese. Muscovie and call Ducks; also all other standard varieties of water fowls, CEDAR LAWN POULTRY ARM, Wapakoneta, Ohio. it
PHEASANTS—Ringnecked, Lady Amhersts, Silvers, Goldens. 32 birds for $150.
Gilbert L. Davis, Mt. Sinai, Long Island, N. Y.
LIVE GAME WANTED WANTED — Reeves and Amherst Pheasants. State price, age and number. MARMOT PHEASANTRY, Member of The Game Guild.
Marmot, Cregon.
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FOR SALE —GOLDEN AND AMHERST PHEAS- ants for breeding or stocking. Not related. GEORGE W. DRURY, Framingham, Mass. : it
RAHLMAN’S PHEASANT AND GAME FARM. Prices on application. Santa Ana, Cal.
PHEASANTS WA\TED.
Between two and three hundred field grown young | gingmecks for breeding purposes. In application
| particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and cocks and hens separately in such quantity for Fall er Winter delivery. Aadress A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New ‘ork,
WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX, Pied Peafow] Soemmerring, Cheer, H ki and German Peacock Pheasants. Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels.
Also Swinhues; state ptice and number. R A. CHILES & CO., Mt Sterling. Ky.
: FOODS WILD DUCKS’ NATURAL FXODS- Will attract
them. Ihesetoods collected, examinations made, plant- ings planned and superintenaed. Write for free infur- ‘mation, CLYDE B TERRELL, Specialist on the Natural Foods of Wild Ducks, Dept. Pi, Oshkosh, Wis.
GAMEKEEPERS
GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED
American game breeder with a rs year experience wishes to raise 5009 ringnecks for a private party or State, and hav ng an incubator and brooder plant. Apply to THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N, Y..
= Ee Ee ee POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad, Expert on rearing Pheasant, Quail Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man- agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of tield and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trap;er of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager. J. H. W., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR
poultry farm, to finish my experiment. in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent ; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex day old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not wih fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer. demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game, 20 vears’ experience in America and Europe. S. HERBERT, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Sty New York.’
WANTED sITUATION—A GAMEKEEFPER FAMIL-
iar with pheasant and poultry rearing. I have also had experience in general farming and can plan the planting for game, BRUCE LANE, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York, 6t
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild duck food plants, and seed Wild Celery. Sago | Pond Weed, Wi-geon grass, Red head grass, Chara and «ther k nds.
' There are hundreds of thousards of acres of water marshes where these, the best of duck t«ods, will grow and hold the game. Write and learn how to d> it,
|'WHITE’S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. Currituck Sound,
ACORNS
An excellent food for deer. pheasants and wild ducks. I can supply acorns by the bushel or in large lors. Write for prices. including shipping ch rges W. R. McLEAN, R. F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina
BOOKS
BOOK S——"* Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Gsinseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. Bv A_R. Harding. Price 60 cents each. THE GAME BREE! ER, 150 Nassau St, N Y.
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“LUMINOUS BODIFS.” A VERY INTERISTING
and instructive volume, by Chailes Hallock, Price, $1.00. Ad:re-s: Sportsmen’s Review Publis.ing Co., 15 W. Sixth St. Cincinnati, O
“OUR BIG GAME.’ BY D W- HUNTINGTON,
¢ ntains portraits and descriprions of all American big _gameanimals Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St, N Y.
‘OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS” BY D. W
Huntington A practical book on wild duck breeding for sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. 1HE GAME BREFDER, 150 Nassau St, N.Y.
“QUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D W. HUNT-
ington. contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in col r Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St , New York
MISCELLANEOUS
10 RAISE GAME. Wanted a partner to raise game on a sea island. A pleasant resort during the Winter Write to the Owner care of Phe Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York :
FOR RENT—NEW CAMP ON BAY SHORE, WILD fowl and plover, shootirg in season, Inquire of A. KENISTON, Edgartown, Mass.
PHEASANTRY FOR SALE — JOHN L, WILLOCX pheasantry forsale pure bred Chinese and young golden pheasants. JOHN L. WILLOCX, Hayward, California
RFGISTERED AND PEDIGREED BLACK FOXES. RUGGED PUPS BORNIN NATURAL CONDITIONS ON MOUNTAIN RAN: H. GUARANTEED TO BREFD. EVERY ONE OF OUR E'IGHT FFMALES WHELPED THIS SPRING. WKITE FOR RECORDS, pene! ONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH, ONAWA,
A D.
‘““THE RANCH BRED FOX,” THE BEST BOOK published on Fox farming. Tells all about this wonderful industry. Price 25c. postuaid. THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE, 15 Whitehall St , New York
PARTNER WANTED- WANTED,A PARTNER WHO
has some zcod duck land. I will furnish the stock, Can also put you next to some fine daik mink. Write quick. F STEVENSON, Route 4. Caro, Michigan.
FOR SALE Two Setters, one lemon and white,
one blue Belton, both staunch and well trained. A bargain. May be seen at Concord, Mass. J.C. CARR, 50 Congress Street, Boston, Mass. rt
An Aid to Game Preserving.
An airedale is a most valuable dog for the game farm and preserve. He is a good watchdog and an excellent aid in ex terminating vermin. These dogs are ad- vertised regularly in this magazine and we urge our readers to try them.
: In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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AIREDALE TERRIERS
Most Popular Dog to-day because of sterling merit, IDEAL FOR POULTRYMAN, guards birds, kills Poe eeanee INDISPENSABLE IN ORCHARD PEERLESS WATCH 1'0G for = home, family, stock. Easy keeper. SPLENDII) PLAYMATE for children. ABSOIUIELY FEAR- LESS (used by Allies in trenches). faithful, highly intelligent. a ‘one man” dog. HIGHLY PROFITABLE, good bitch earns upward $200 yearly, pups easily reared, readily -old Puppies, grown dog~, bred bitch, from FINEST AIREDALE BLvuoD In WORLD, pedigreed, registered, certified. ATSTUD, Haveloek Goldsmith, magnificent imported son internationally famous Ch. Crompton Oorang, fee $15; «xpress bitches to Weston, N. J. Safe delivery, honorable dealiny, satisfaction guaranteed, Booklet and referenceson request.
VIBERT KENNEL, Box 11a, Weston, N. J.
BREEDERS?’ CARDS
mS BOOK ON LIVE GAME, ELK, DEER, WILD Rts Oat And How to Feed Turkeys, Quail, Pheasants, ’ Mailed free to any address by Ducks, and all other game. Eggs the Author n season. See space advertise- H. CLAY GLOVER Co., Inc. = ment.
W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Pa. Member of the Game Guild.
Eggs inseason. Amhersts, Silver, Golden, Versicolor, Mongolian, Reeves, Ringnecks, Manchurian, Elliott, Swinhoe, Impeyan, Mela-
! BREEDER OF FANCY PHEASANTS | 4
PHEASANTS, PIGEONS AND
i EGGS. notus, Soemmering. sn Pheasants, Amherst, Silver, Gold- | GOLDEN STAR POULTRY FARM PS, ¥ en, Reeves, Mongolian, Swinhoe, Gifford Gray Versicolor, Ringnecks, Cochin | Orange, New Jersey - Bantams, White King Pigeons. Member of the Game Guild. Eggs in Season. = : BLUE RIBBON POULTRY AND PHEASANT FARM DR. FRANK KENT Davenport Neck, Phone 655, New Rochelle, N. Y. Importer Bob White Quail i] Member of the Game Guild. ‘San Antonio, Texas. a Book your orders now for early REGISTERED BLACK FOXES, Fall and Spring delivery. TROUT & HARES. Bank references.
Rugged pups, bred on highest ranchin America. 1917 Breeding Record. S8litters from 8 females. Also Mountain Brook Trout. Milch Goats. Belgium and Flemish Hares. DOGS
Member of the Game Guild.
BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH CHESAPEAKE PUPPIES ‘ Oras i Maine For Sale,—Four Chesapeake puppies just weaned. Two 4 dogs and two bitches. Address GEORGE B, MOORE, t Member of the Game Guild. Flanders, Long Island: 5 as FOR SALE. F Pheasant Eads Waloeasog: POINTERS, SETTERS, BEAGLES AND Everything in the Pheasant RETRIEVERS. == family. Thoroughly broken Pointers, Setters, Beagles and ; Pamphlet with order Retrievers for sale. Also thoroughbred registered | : FREE Chesapecike pups Dee poatded sue trained. Mi 0 elephone 38 M, Central Islip. i, _ BUCKWOOD PHEASANTRIES THE HAWTHORNE KENNELS, Central Islip, | Dunfield, Warren County New Jersey — Long Islanu, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild. y
MALLARDS AND'BLACK DUCKS. ‘
Guaranteed Pure Bred Wild 4 r Ducks. Strongest Flyers. Mal- THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, of Berry, Ky., lards: drakes, $2.50 each. Black otter forsale setters and pointers, fox and cat hounds drakes, $3.00 each. Ducks, wolf and deer nounds. Coon and opossum hounds, vi $2.50 each. Eggs in season. mint and rabbit hounds, bear and lion hounds. also Aire 15 Mallard eggs, $4.00, 100 eggs | dale terriers, All dogs shipped on trial purchaser $25. 15 BlackDuckegg, $6.00, | judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or money re-
100 eggs, $35. funded. Sixty page, highly illustrated, instructive and
F. P. DUSETTE, interesting catalogue for ten cents in stamps or coin,
Bad Axe, Michigan. i ee eee Member of the Game Guild. AIREDALE TERRIERS. The genuine one-man d Do not write for prices or infor- Pedigreed, registered pups. Males $25.00. Fema
mation. Send check. If birds do not please you | $15.00. Guaranteed Satisfactory.
L. E, GALLUP, 2 return them and your money will be returned at once. Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska. “=
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SPRATT’S GAME-REARING ADJUNCTS
Are Indispensable Yet Inexpensive
SPRATT’S CARDIAC ““GAME SPICE”’
Contains valuable, stimulating and appetizing properties and should be added to staple food during raw and inclement weather, as it frequently wards off attacks of Gapes, Diarrhoea and Cramps.
SPRATT’S BONE MEAL FOR GAME
Is an invaluable adjunct to the soft food diet. It contains valu- able lime- phosphates and is much cheaper than fresh bone, which contains at least 50% moisture and which of necessity
' has to be given quite fresh.
Beware of Gapes. Prevention is better than cure.
SPRATT’S BLACKERITE
_Is the most effective yet agreeable method of completely eradicating the disease.
FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS
SPRATT’S PARTRIDGE MEAL
MAKES BOTH.
Success in raising semi-wild birds can only be attained by care and experience. Correct feeding is half the battle. We supply the right kind of ammunition and you will get results if you follow directions.
Send for Pheasant Culture,’ price 25c. “Poultry Culture” price 10c. “Dog Culture” sent on receipt of 2c. stamp.
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THE OBJECT OF THIS MAGAZINE IS TO MAKE NORTH AMERICA THE BIGGEST GAME PRODUCING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
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Mackensen Game Park
I carry the largest stock in America of live game birds, ornamental birds and quadrupeds.
Hungarian Partridges
I am prepared to fill the largest. orders ‘\ for these birds and for years I have filled practically all of the large State orders for both | 3 Partridges and Pheasants.
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Pheasants
My Pheasant pens hold thousands of Pheasants and I am prepared to furnish these birds in large numbers to State de- partments, individual breeders and preserves.
Wild Duck
- Mallards, Black Duck, Teal, Wood-Duck, Pintails and other species can be supplied in large numbers at at- tractive prices.. Also Mandarins and all q other water fowl. | 7
Wild Turkeys
I am now the largest breeder and dealer in Wild Turkeys and can supply these birds in good numbers to ‘State: Departments and preserve owners ~
I carry the largest stock in America of ornamental birds and animals. My onda now contain nearly 200 Royal Swans of England. I have fine lot of the beautiful pink FLAMINGOES and the very large Europea PELICANS. Also STORKS, CRANES, PEAFOWL, fancy GEESE and DUCKS. My pheasant pens contain ove a thousand Ringneck and fancy PHEASANTS. All stock is kept under practically natural conditions. I have 60 acres of tand entirely devoted to my business. Can also promptly furnish BUFFALOES, DEER, LLAMAS, RABBITS, - f
Orders booked during summer.
I have for years filled practically all the large State Orders ane have 2 ter facilities for handling large orders than any other firm. a a
Write me before buying elsewhere—it will pay you to do so. Your visit solicited. I am only 60 miles from New York and 30 miles from Philadelphia.
WM. J. MACKENSEN _ Department V. YARDLEY, BUCKS COUNTY, PA. ; Member of The Game Guild
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Is Your Husband A Shooter?
Give him a gift that is different—a gift unusual— one that will please him to the limit with pleasure. Give him 100 shotgun shells loaded with good old reliable
Smokeless Shotgun Powders
“Trap loads” for the trapshooter—‘ ‘Field loads” for the field shooter. You can get either in his favorite makeof shell. But to cap the climax—to add the final touch to this patriotic gift—be sure you ge/ Du Pont Powder. To be absolutely certain
Look on the Top Shot Wad for the Marks DU PONT BALLISTITE SCHULTZE Each has its good points and each has its
friends. Used by 80% of the Nation’s shooters and sold by all dealers.
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a favorite make of shell which he shoots almost exclusively. “This is probably the case with you. When you buy shells you name a specified brand.
But do you take the one additional step which insures absolute uniformity in the shooting qualities. of your shells—do you specify the name of the powder as well as the name of the shell?
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For HAWKS and OWLS
| HEN hawks and owls come to look over the game
| Y ‘farm, they alight on some high point. The wise ; game breeder sees that they get no further—he is ready
for them with “‘sets” like the one illustrated above.
. A small home-made staple driven into the end of a tall pole holds the Oneida Jump Trap in a position which makes an ideal bird perch. When the hawk or owl is caught, the trap is instantly released from the staple. The chain, which is fastened low down upon the pole, makes it impossible for the bird to regain its perch..
Oneida Jump Traps are also especially adapted to trapping weasels, mink, foxes and other game-preying animals.
Illustrated catalog furnished free ’ upon request.
ONEIDA COMMUNITY, Ltd., ONEIDA, N. Y.
8 writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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CONTENTS
Survey of the Field—An Important Announcement—Proper Methods An Experiment—Disposition of the Game_An Afterthought—Our Plans Outlined__Two Committees_Turkeys and Turkeys__A Good Idea__Don't Get Blue—No $5.00 Dinner—More About Fish—A Pocket Score Book— Trap Shooting a. Patriotic Sport.
Mallards and Near Mallards - - - = - By the Editor Notes from the State Game Departments. f ) Oklahoma — me uumieeie ce Amendments to the Game > Laws. The Enemies of the Grouse of the Open Country - Jeuke Puciee | Aquatic Plants and their Value in Pond Fish Culture By Robert S. Johnson and M. F. Stapleton, U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Notes from the Game Farms and Preserves. The Game Market__Food Prices— Wild Ducks Abundant__Report from —
a Dealer__Nonsense Rampant!__A Fish Enemy—Ducks Damage Rice _’Ware the Goshawks Migrating from Arctic.
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A oh la Quail and the Farmer__The Vanishing Prairie pee: Legislation by Stampede—A Letter to Congress.
Téd THE GAME BREEDER, ' 150 Nassau Street, New York.
Please send me THE GAME BREEDER, for "one year. ia $1.00 enclosed. |
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N. B.—Write Name and Street Address plainly and state if you wish back numbers of the magazine to the first of the year. |
The Game Breeder
Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July 9, 1915, at the Post?Office, New York: City, New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME XII
DECEMBER, 1917
NUMBER 3
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SURVEY OF
An Important Announcement.
America undoubtedly has become the biggest pheasant producing country m the world! We have no doubt there are more wild ducks also in America than there are in any country in the world, excepting possibly India. We have heard recently some remarkable stories about the abundance of wild fowl in India.
The reason why America has become a great pheasant producing country is that the laws have been amended in many states so as to permit and encour- age the profitable breeding of pheasants. Certain species of ducks also can be produced legally.
We now propose quickly to make America the biggest quail and grouse producing country in the world!
What Can Be Done.
Quail’and grouse can be bred in vast numbers far more cheaply than pheas- ants and wild ducks can be bred. We propose to restore the prairie grouse to Kentucky and Ohio and to make these birds an abundant food supply in many other places where they are extinct. Sport certainly has nothing to fear from
this activity. _ It will be necessary in some states to have the laws amended, but in states _where there are no grouse no legislation will be necessary. It has been found a very easy matter to make the wild tur- keys plentiful on some farms and club grounds in states where the laws pro- tecting turkeys have been repealed be- cause the birds became extinct. We can get all the wild. turkeys we want for breeding purposes.
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Our main difficulty will be in pro- curing other stock birds, because in many states those who have sought vainly to make the game abundant by enacting re- strictive laws have secured legislation which prevents the taking of stock birds for breeding purposes.
We can get some stock, however, we feel sure.
Proper Methods.
Attempts to breed prairie and ruffed grouse and quail “in captivity” have not been very successful. There is a better and an easier way to make and keep these birds tremendously abundant. If they quickly can be made abundant on any place and the methods be made known it seems evident many people will breed grouse and quail both for sport and for profit. They are cheaper to rear than pheasants and will bring better prices. When breeders can sup- ply stock birds and eggs at prices which at the outset will seem fabulous, we have no doubt many sporting and commercial breeders will undertake to make these birds plentiful just as they made the pheasants plentiful.
An Experiment.
In order to make a practical experi- ment with American game birds we de- cided to use the money usually used for our annual game dinner, with some additional money, for this purpose. A letter sent to those who attended our dinner and some others, asking for con- tributions to our game breeding fund, met with a hearty response.
Many offered to give us much more
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money than we asked for. It is now cer- tain that we can make the experiment next season. :
We decided to rear some pheasants and ducks and wild turkeys, in addition to the quail and grouse, and we suggest- ed to the contributors to our fund (after
they had subscribed) that the crop of
game be donated to hospitals entertaining soldiers and sailors returning from abroad.
Disposition of the Game.
We said nothing about the disposition of the game in asking for contributions, since we did not wish to make a charit- able appeal but wished to ascertain if there was enough interest in the breed- ing of American gaine, by proper meth- ods, to produce the needed funds. We look forward to the experiment with much pleasure and we are glad to be able to show Uncle Sam we can do some- thing even if he thinks we are too old to shoulder arms. We have no doubt we can send a ton or two of desirable game to the hospitals.
An Afterthought.
It occurred to us that while we were about it we might as well keep the hos- pitals full of game so that all of the nurses and doctors as well as the pa- tients can have all the game they can eat. We do not know just how much this will take but we believe members of the Game Conservation Society can furnish it. We feel sure they can. We feel sure they will. They certainly can if all of the breeders will set a few more eggs than usual and donate a per- centage of the game they rear. lieve they will do this when we ask them to. We believe it will be a patriotic pleasure for them to do this. They should be glad to make a demonstration of how much game there is in the country now that it is legal to produce the food in / many states.
Our Plans Outlined.
We propose to ask shooting clubs which have been in the habit of selling
- would otherwise sell. Individual pre-—
We be--
_the go-as-you-please price-fixing of supply
a good lot of game to hotels and dealers _ to donate a percentage of the game they
serve owners, ditto. We propose to ask all the big commercial breeders who sell — thousands of game birds every season to set a few more eggs than usual and to give liberally. The prices for game are high and rising. All breeders are making money and if a big lot of game is used in the way we suggest the prices for what remains to be sold will be still higher. yo 9 We shall ask all the small breeders, including a hundred or more womén members of the society who are breed-7 ing game, to give something. Any of them should be able to set one more hen — and to give a dozen birds. ‘- of game we will get from small breed-_ ers we are sure will be surprising to those who think America is a gameless land and that a few more game laws will” help matters. iy a The state game farms will be asked to donate a part of their crop. | We may decide to purchase a lot of eggs and send them to those who will” help. We believe some eggs will be do-~ nated by members of our society.
Two Committees, | We shall appoint two committees, one to superintend the distribution of the” game and to designate just how it should be distributed; one to superintend and direct the farm we propose to operate” and to represent the contributors. 3
Turkeys and Turkeys. The World, N. Y. says: Prices for turkeys have been fixed at from
28 to 37 cents a pound. That is better than)
and demand, but it is a long way from the times when a turkey cost a charge of pow- der and a handful of buckshot. a
You will be interested to learn, deat World, no doubt, that the time when wild turkeys become cheap in the Amer- ican markets rapidly is approaching. The food will be produced by a charge of powder, etc., but the turkey will cost something to produce. Since, however, he lives largely on- grasshoppers and
acorns (these are his staple foods) he can be produced very cheaply on inex- _ pensive and waste lands for sport and for profit, and, although the time when we all could get something for almost nothing, a charge, etc., as you suggest, has passed, the time rapidly is coming when -the people will eat wild turkeys at prices surprisingly small. We saw, just before the war started, ‘a lot of fine wild turkeys on a New York dock which were being shipped from Austria to California for breeding pur- poses. Austria had no wild turkeys un- til she procured her breeding stock from America, where the turkey is solely in- diginous. You may be interested to know that the turkeys became extinct in Ohio after a law was enacted prohibiting the shooting of these birds. There is no law in Ohio now protecting turkeys and a farmer writes to The Game Breeder _ that he has 200 wild turkeys on his farm. There are wild turkeys, and wild turkeys. _ The political wild turkey, “the football _ of politics,” never was a great success. _ The wild turkey for sport and for profit _ promises to lave a boom shortly. The _ people will enjoy the last named when _ they can buy them at moderate prices _ as they soon will. We believe the price will be from 5 to 10 cents per pound.
A Good Idea.
The World, N. Y.., has : some very good ideas. Here is one:
It is announced that the Sheriff’s panel din- ner this year will be devoid of turtle soup terrapin, pheasant and canvasback. But why denature this gastronomic feast under a false idea of conservation? Sheriffs’ jurors should be exempt from food regulation. Let them _ eat their canvasback and leave beef and mut- ton to ordinary folk.
The editor of The Game Breeder an- _ hounced tong ago that he would eat quail on toast for breakfast often in order to save the bacon for export. He said he would begin with Long Island quail since this food-producing area recently was kept open when the industry of game _ breeding was assaulted by those who be- _ lieve in game prohibition.
_ Many readers of The Game Breeder are _ eating pheasants and wild ducks (pro- _ duced by industry) on certain days in
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the week in order to save the beef. It would have been impossible for them to do this without being arrested and jailed had it not been for the success of the “more game” movement advocat- ed by The Game Breeder,
Don’t Get Blue.
Louis Kuertz, an Ohio game warden, says:
Game and wild animals as a human food supply has long since passed like a spend- thrift’s patrimony. Proper and efficient con- servation methods might have indefinitely prolonged the periods wherefrom the human inhabitants of this country could have reaped a great food and clothing supply, annually and in season.
Don’t get blue, Mr. Kuertz. Run up to Portage Heights game farm in your state and glance at several thousand pheasants and wild turkeys, about all the game the land will carry, we should think. Stop in at the Anna Dean Farm, Barberton, and look over the abundant game food supply there. Take a little run about Newark, Piqua, Troy and see what some of our members are doing and if necessary drop in and see over 500 other game breeders in your state. We think you would be inclined to bet that Ohio will win in the contest referred to on another page. “Proper and efficient” methods rapidly have become fashion- able throughout America since they were proposed in The Game Breeder.
No $5.00 Dinner.
Mayor- elect Hylan, cancelling a dinner ar- ranged in his honor, is quoted as saying:
The government is trying to conserve food, and I do not think we are aiding in the movement or setting a good example by hold- ing any dinners at $5 a plate.
An excellent precedent, which will be in- dorsed by Democrats, Fusionists and Social- ists regardless of party affiliation—The World, Nov. 12. :
We believe the Game Conservation Society did well when it decided to aban- don its annual game feast and to use the money in producing more food. Sub- scribers to our game fund are writing many letters endorsing the action of
the society.
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More About Fish.
In a speech before a Connecticut audi- ence recently, Fish Commissioner Graham, of Boston, Mass., drew some instructive parallels between how New England neglects and how certain states along the Pacific seaboard protect the inland waterways fisheries.
More than a generation ago real ef- forts were made to stock a number of streams with salmon_and shad. In 1879, for example, the catch of shad below the Enfield dam on the Connecticut River, amounted to 436,981. Ten years later, as the result of intervening neglect, the
catch had fallen to 68,000. ‘““The amount of the increase in the value of the sha caught on the Atlantic Coast from 1880 to 1885, the period of most active propa- gation, was worth ten times what was ex- pended by all the fish commissions dur- ing this period.” Today, in consequence of damming and pollution, most of these streams are barren.
in 1871, 10,000 shad fry were trans- ported from the Connecticut to Califor- nia and planted in the Sacramento River. Later several other lots were sent out, totalling about half a million fry. A closed season was placed upon them for 10 years. They have increased so rap- idly that the fishermen are selling them
for $10 to $12 per ton for buck shad and $25 a ton for roe shad. For the past chree years the Monterey Packing Company have been canning the shad and shad roe and sending it back to New Bneland. > On May 1819s, “they 1e= ceived from the fishermen 63,000 pounds of shad.roe and frequently receive from 40,000 to 60,000 pounds in a day during the season. In 1915, 100,000 pounds of shad roe were packed. After the in- troduction of shad into California they were distributed in the Columbia River and its tributaries and shad as well as salmon are now found in numbers in the Willamette River. These fish ran up the Columbia for 100 miles and then up the Willamette, through the pollution from the City of Portland—nearly half a mil- lion people—and on up through the ref- use that comes from the large manufac- turing establishments at Oregon City.
Over 250 tons of fine salmon were taken ~ at Oregon City during 1915, besides large © quantities of shad. The polluted water ~ does not stop them. 4
Another illustration or what has been © done with New England fish is the plant- — ing of about 400 striped bass in Califor- — nia water in 1879. ‘They increased rap- idly and were caught in large numbers so that a limit was placed on them. No fish can be taken under three pounds in © weight and none can be shipped out of — the state. Over 2,000,000 pounds have ~ been marketed in one season in San Fran-_ cisco alone. ¥
A Pocket Score Book.
The Du Pont Company of Wilming- ton, Del., has just issued a pocket score — book that will surely be appreciated by trapshooters. It contains 32 pages and will thus allow the trapshooter to enter — the results of thirty-two shoots that he — may attend. Each page has space for the place and date of shoot as well as score columns for 14 events. . .
On the front cover page there is fig- — ured a list of averages compiled on the basis of 150 targets, which will save the - trapshooter a great deal of trouble when — he desires to learn how proffcient he is — becoming.
Trap Shooting as a Patriotic Sport. q
‘The “Air Division” of the Signal Corps — of the United States army will soon in-— stall clay target shooting at its flying schools. It is the firm belief of those in charge of this branch of the Government service that members of the flying squad will be better equipped, to successfully engage the enemy flying machines if they are proficient wing shots. i _ This more than ever emphasizes the © fact that trapshooting is a patriotic sport.
It is important to defer the ever in- creasing number of game laws if game is to become plentiful and cheap in the markets. .
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MALLARDS AND NEAR MALLARDS.
By tHE EpiTor.
Mr. N. R. Hoffman, one of our Min- nesota members, referring to the ducks on our September cover, says:
“The photograph of the ducks which ap- pears on the cover of the September issue of The Game Breeder is without any ques- tion that of a pair of pure bred wild mal- lards. The trim; alert appearance of the drake as well as his general markings bears every indication of his being the genuine clip- per-wing greenhead of the marshes.
By contrasting these with the puddle ducks which appeared on the cover of your Janu- ary issue the difference between mallards and
near mallards is self-evident.
Let us hope that this discussion comes to the attention of some of our advertisers of
’ *Genuine Wild Mallards’ as I am convinced
that there are a few who need a little educa- tion on the subject.”
Mr. N. R. Hoffman signs his letter properly, “Yours for more game.”
The object we had in mind when we began the printing of pictures of ducks, and asking for our readers’ opinions about them, was to create the discussion which Mr. Hoffman hopes will come to the attention of some advertisers of “Genuine Wild Mallards.” Undoubted- ly he is right in saying there are some who need education on the subject.
In all civilized countries excepting America those who wish to breed wild ducks are encouraged to trap all the stock birds they can for this purpose. The trappers select the best specimens for breeding purposes and kill the rest and send them to market. The result is cheap game for the people to eat. In most of the United States it is a crime (strange as it may seem) to take wild ducks for breeding purposes and for this reason there are very few “Genuine Wild Mallards” on the market.
One result of the discussion about our pictures has been to emphasize the fact that the “Genuine Wild” soon loose their trim, alert appearance and often their ability to fly well when reared “in cap- tivity.” Our readers are aware that we have objected often to the use of the words “in captivity” in game breeders’
enactments. For the upland game birds, the quail and grouse “in captivity” often results in great losses due to diseases, and captivity often results in wild ducks los- ing their ability to fly. Breeders should be permitted to breed their birds wild or semi-wild in protected fields if they wish to do so.
We believe that most men are honest and are inclined to be fair. There are likely to be some crooks in any industry. These should not be tolerated and they are not by The Game Breeder. We know there is a big demand for wild ducks for sporting purposes and for food. We believe that sportsmen who wish to purchase “near mallards’ which are strong on the wing should be able to pur- chase these birds and their eggs if they wish to do so. Most sportsmen know what they are purchasing and know how difficult it is to procure fresh trapped stock, which often does not lay well under control. We think it advisable, however, for advertisers to state frank- ly just what they have and to describe their stock in their advertisements ac- curately.
We would like to have some sugges- tions from our readers as to the terms which should be used in the advertise- ments and we will be glad to standardize these terms and to insist upon advertis- ers living up to them. We have ad- vised advertisers who offer hand-reared mallards to say that their stock is hand- reared and, if so, to state that it is a strong-flying stock, indicating that the birds are guaranteed suitable for sport. Probably it would be well to require ad- vertisers to only use the term “Genuine wild mallards” when they have freshly trapped birds to sell and to require them to advertise ‘“hand-reared” or “range- reared” ducks when such is the case.
We hope our readers will take suff- cient interest in this subject to write their suggestions as to how the ad- vertisements should be worded and we
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are quite sure all: reputable dealers,»
the only kind we want as advertisers, will be inclined to adopt a standard of
terms to be used in advertising and to.
live up to it.
Mr. Hoffman, in his letter printed above, says the photograph of the soph on the cover of our September issue “1 without question that of a pair of hie bred wild mallards.” Asa matter of fact, the breeder of the ducks, Mr. Dusette, does not claim that the ducks are fresh- ly trapped ducks. They are ducks which he reared from eggs laid on his premises by stock birds which he owns.
A Vermont reader, in our November issue, pronounces these ducks, mallards, “true in markings and shape.” He adds that a Massachusetts breeder sent him, “an exact brother of the male portrayed. He has grown heavy and clumsy with the years, but his descendents still show the boot shape and right markings.”
The lowa breeder who sent us the first picture of ducks, which started the pres- ent discussion, was not pleased with some of the opinions about his ducks which evidently had grown “heavy and clumsy.” But he insisted the ducks were bred from wild stock. We believe he, undoubtedly, told the truth when he said the ducks were reared from wild ducks, captured at Wall Lake, lowa.
The subject ts a difficult one, evidently, since we all know that wild ducks reared, “in captivity,’ often become heavy and clumsy.. It is possible, and in fact. com- mon to hand-rear ducks in such a way that they are as strong on the wing and as difficult marks as the wild-bred birds are. Many sporting syndicates and clubs in ' America now shoot thousands of these birds every season and find them emi- nently satisfactory. and the new ones which are being formed all the time, wish to purchase these ducks and their eggs we believe they should be able to do so, but we have long held the opinion that purchasers should know just what is offered and for the most part, we believe they do.
According to Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Du- sette should be entitled to say he has “pure-bred mallards” for sale. Both of
_ tame and too heavy for sport.
Since these clubs,:
‘the breeders referred to, without cane, have birds descended from captured wild 4
birds. How would it do to reserve the term, “Genuine wild mallards” for fresh- ly trapped birds, as we have suggested, and to ask advertisers to offer hand- reared ducks when the ducks are so reared, or range-reared ducks when ducks are bred under control on a
marsh or range, and to state that the birds are strong on the wing when Bucs is the case?
Let us have some ‘suggestions, worthy readers, and we feel sure our advertisers will be ‘glad to live up to any reasonable regulations made by the society.
English Game Farmers.
The English game farmers are largely responsible for the introduction in Amer- ica as well as in England, of ducks too They be- lieved that by introducing tame blood they could produce a heavier bird and one more easy to handle on the game farm. The preserve owners, however, soon dis- covered they were getting birds not fully up to the requirements of sport, and just. before the war began both the preserve owners and the game farmers were try- ing to right matters by the extensive use of freshly trapped birds for breeding purposes. Readers will find this matter fully discussed in my book, “Our Wild Fowl and Waders,” at pages 56 and 57. The Shooting Times and British Sports- man says: “At the present time there is
a great desire in shooting circles to thor- oughly stamp out the half- breeds.”* The book referred to created a big demand in America for wild ducks for breeding pur- poses and was instrumental in creating many new game farms, shooting clubs and preserves. While engaged in writing the book I imported a lot of eggs and ducks from England and later thousands of ducks were reared, at the Game Breed. ers’ Association preserve on Long Island, under my management. Some of the members procured eggs and birds, pre- ferring to take these in lieu of shooting, and the result was a big lot of descend-
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ants of the English half-breeds were dis- tributed broadcast in America. Import- ers, also brought over many of the Eng- lish ducks and eggs since the game laws in America made it almost impossible to get the proper wild stock for breeding purposes. There are many places in America where there is a great desire to stamp out the half-breeds which have been called “near mallards” in The Game Breeder. 3
There are various degrees of “near- ness,’ however, and when the birds are alert and trim in appearance and when they are strong on the wing and excellent on the table, they are, I believe, highly suitable for sport, and there can be no reason why such birds should not be sold by dealers to sportsmen who wish.to pur- chase them. All hands should, however,
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strive to improve the character of their flocks and this only can be done hy in- troducing much new wild blood. The game laws should be amended every- where so as to permit and encourage breeders to trap and to import birds for breeding purposes where it is evident they will produce thousands of ducks, as many are now doing, in places where wild ducks had ceased to occur.
How perfectly absurd it seems, to say that any one can shoot 25 or 50 ducks per diem throughout the season, but that no one can trap any birds for breeding purposes even when he has shown that his plant is equipped to turn out thous- ands of ducks every year? A big food producing industry has been and is ham- pered and in many places prevented by ill-advised laws.
NOTES FROM THE STATE GAME DEPARTMENTS.
The reports from the State Game De- partments coming to The Game Breeder indicate that practically all of the depart- ments are in favor of the rearing of game for sport and for food. It is gratifying to observe that the game departments rapid- ly are becoming of great economic impor- tance and that they will represent all of the people. State game officers are becom- ing a little tired, no doubt, of the activities of non-residents who sweep in with plenty of money urging the farmers to put an end to sport. They will find when the sportsmen and farmers work together in a few places they will be strong enough to resist the prohibitionists. When it ap- pears that the farmers, even in a few places, are getting their taxes paid by sport there will be little danger of laws being enacted making it impossible for the sportsmen to deal with the farmers. The result will be that shooting can be kept open everywhere. The preserved areas will tend to stock the rest of the country and the receipts from shooting licenses can be kept up. It will only take a very little land to make America the biggest grouse and quail producing coun-
try in the world. Very little land has been used to make the country the big- gest pheasant producing country in the world. The production of thousands of ducks about many ponds where there. were no ducks a few years ago has in- creased the sport for all hands in regions where there are many duck ponds.
Clearly we are headed in the right di- rection.
Oregon.
Hon. Carl O. Shoemaker, state game warden for Oregon, reports that all spe- cies of game birds and game fish reared in captivity can be sold as food.
The licenses issued to game breeders cost $2.00. The sales of game are reg- ulated; the game sold is identified by tags which cost five cents.
Game can be sold for propagation at any time. ;
Oregon has a large number of game breeders who are making money and they must be pleased with the attitude of the State department towards their industry.
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Oklahoma.
Hon. G. A. Smith, state game and - fish warden of Oklahoma, reports that his State encourages the breeding of all
species of game and game fish for sale
as food. Licenses are issued to breeders for $2.00, The regulations for the 1n- dustry have not been adopted yet.
Live game can be sold for propaga- tion at all times. Oklahoma soon should become: a big food producing state and as often we have observed, sport has nothing to fear from an abundance of game.
Kansas.
The state warden of Kansas, W. C. Tegmeier sends us the Kansas law which does not appear to contain the modern provisions relating to, game breeding and the sale of game as food which are com- mon and popular in other states.
_ Kansas seems to be a little behind the times.
The law provides, however, “that it shall not be unlawful for persons who propagate and raise deer and antelope in captivity to sell and dispose of them.”
Section 25 also provides for the issu- ing of permits to bieeders to take and ship birds protected by the act when such birds are raised or propagated in cap- tivity by such person, when the warden is satisfied such persons desire the same exclusively for scientific or for propaga- tion purposes.
There would seem to be no opportu- nity for any game food producing in Kan- sas. It seems perculiar that in an agri- cultural state it should be criminal to produce food on a farm. Probably the farmers are not aware how much money the game farmers in other states are mak- ing. We predict when Kansas wakes up it will enact a law as liberal as the Mas- sachusetts and Kentucky statutes are.
. Proposed Amendments to the Game Breeders’ Laws.
_ The Game Breeder suggests that the laws pernitting and encouraging the pro- duction of game for food should be made uniform and where necessary they should be amended as follows:
1. To permit the profitable breeding of all species of game on the same terms under which it is now permissible to breed only a few species.
Note—Some states permit the breeding of all species of game and the sale of the food produced. Why should other states say, in effect, you may breed black chickens, but not white ones because the last named are very scarce and are becoming extinct?
2. To provide for ‘the issuing of per- mits to breeders without charge or for a nominal fee not to exceed 50 cents.
Nore—Massachusetts and Kentucky. permits to breeders without charge. Ohio charges 50 cents. Why should any state pen- alize a food producer to the extent of $25.00?
_ There are hundreds of small breeders, includ-
in many women, who are successfully en- gaged in the new food producing industry in states which have a small license fee. A lady, who purchased a few pheasant eggs in- tending to become a producer, wrote to The Game Breeder, when she ascertained she must pay $25 in order to hatch the esgs, that she had decided to give them to “a voter,” and concluded her letter with the wise remark, “the fools are not all dead yet, are they?” 3. To provide for the issuing of per- mits permitting licensed breeders to trap birds for breeding purposes. In order to make any game very abundant it is quite necessary to have breeding stock. Note—Why permit every one to destroy a certain number of birds for fun and deny to the breeder the right to take a similar number alive for the purpose of multiplying their numbers?
New Hampshire.
New Hampshire has a new law which provides for payment from the fish and game fund upon assessment by the com- missioner of agriculture of damages for injury to live stock cases by persons hunting deer.
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THE ENEMIES OF THE GROUSE OF THE OPEN COUNTRY.
By J. P. Turner
Prairie Grouse.
What are the forms of the destructive
agencies which are waging such war upon.
the grouse ranks? By leaving man out entirely for the present, we do not have to seek far to find them. First of all, there are the natural predatory foes, the gos- hawk and allied species, the great-horned owl, crow, coyote; fox, skunk, weasel, etc. Now if these species which prey upon the grouse and their eggs were maintained in their proper balance in con- junction with other species, it would not be reasonable to say that they could be the means of depleting the country ot prairie chicken, else why did they not do
so ages and ages ago? Only such species
as have become abnormally plentiful or which have overreached in comparative numbers the places nature long ago al- lotted to them, or those which have sut- fered abnormal loss of the natural prey which was originally assigned to them, could possible attack grouse so unremit- tingly as to reduce them to their present numbers. Several isolated species might
be brought under this head; but could
these alone, unaided by some greater de-
_ structive agency, wreak such havoc? To
say the least, it is improbable.
There is no doubt that the crow has increased under man’s influence, and the coyote is becoming more plentiful of late years, while his natural prey, the bush- rabbit, has temporarily become scarcer. Of the other predatory species mentioned, it can be said that, with the possible ex- ception of the goshawk, they have re- mained in approximately the proper places nature long ago intended them to occupy. Some seasons they will individually ap- pear in increased or decreased numbers, but not sufficiently increased at any time as to become a permanent pest.
The Crow.
In any newly-settled country, where climatic changes, variations in physical features and altered conditions of life are directly the result of man’s actions, there is a corresponding evolution of change among the wild creatures peculiar to that country. Different species show a marked and abnormal increase or de- crease as the new conditions favor or re- tard them, Before the surmounting in- fluence of settlement, the buffalo van- ished. The elk is only to be found in a
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few of the more secluded corners of his once great range. The beaver no. longer frequents our waterways as in the days gone by. The wild pigeon, whose im- mense flocks some among us still recall, is extinct ; and many others of our native birds and animals have steadily been re- duced in numbers. But the increase in the numbers of a few species has been almost as noteworthy ; and there seems to have been chosen for this group several individuals which can neither claim use- fulness nor beauty as compared with those which threaten soon to disappear. The most conspicuous bird in this class is the crow, and with everything in his favor, he has flourished and increased prodigiously. No doubt the crow was plentiful enough before the settlement of this country, but the conditions under which he lived were not so conducive to his welfare as at the present day. Na- ture had not provided that the crow should predominate excessively over the birds upon which it preys; and we can quite believe that the crows were often put to sore straits in their battle for existence. In other words nature kept them where they belonged. But, man, in his coming, has been their benefactor. He has never molested them to any ex- tent ; in their natural enemies; and has pro- vided a constant and various supply of food which is always at the disposal of the black rascals. If any good at all can be accredited to the crow, it is his gift as a scavenger and his appetite for several forms of insect life. As against this he does not hesitate to attack the grain in the stooks; and I have seen large numbers of them feeding in standing crop and fairly trampling it down in several spots in one field. But it is in the spring and early summer that the crow commits deeds beside which his dingy coat pales and his good deeds are forgotten. Then it is that he takes upon himself the dual role of thief and murderer, and attacks without mercy the eggs and young of other birds helpless to defend their own. He scours the prairies and fields daily for food with which to nourish his unde- serving offspring ; and countless eggs and young of other birds are pillaged to pro-
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vide ior the infant cannibals in their nest of sticks. One of the chief sufferers at this season is the nesting prairie chick- en, and by no means a small factor in the decrease of the latter’s brood is the robbing of her nest by the crow. When we see the immense numbers of crows which are scattered over the entire coun- try during the nesting season, we cannot but wonder that any of, the chicken broeds and eggs escape. Were it not for the patrolling of the prairies by that plucky little corporal, the kingbird, who never hesitates to harass and drive off each and every crow that comes within his beat, this wholesale destruction of young birds and eggs would probably be doubled. We have had a bounty on gophers, and the wolf bounty still exists, and there-seemis to be no reason why the crow, sooner or later, should not receive his full share of attention, for he com- mits crimes in comparison to which the misdeeds of the others are insignificant. If we need proof of this we need only to consider the thousands upon thousands of the offspring of insect and seed-eating birds which are annually devoured by crows.
The Goshawk.
Although the past season (1916) has shown a remarkable increase in the gos- hawks, there is no serious likelihood that they will continue in such numbers. The goshawk is one of the most rapacious of our birds of prey, and seems to often kili other birds from a mere love of killing. Many partridge and prairie chicken succumb to this murderous vil- lain of the air, and as he does not leave the country during the winter months the grouse are never safe from his depreda- tions. Perhaps the scarcity of bush rab- bits also accounts for his unusual num- bers around the settlements.
The Coyote.
Robbed,, of late, of his staple diet of rabbit, the coyote has been forced to turn to other sources of food supply, and has abnorinally preyed upon the grouse and their nests as well as other ground birds. But the recurrent scarcity of rabbits,
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roughly estimated in seven-year periods, has been going on from time immemorial, and never, as far as it is possible to as- certain, did this periodical disappear- ance of the rabbit result in the coyote or any other predatory species being forced to turn upon grouse or other birds in such numbers as to reduce them to the danger point. Certainly within the Jast 21 years, or in, say, the three rab- bit decades preceding the present one, this did not occur. The fact is quite patent, however, that the coyote menace is great- er today than it has been for many, many years, merely by reason of the animal’s
increased numbers concurrent with the comparative scarcity of the rabbits upon which it feeds. Along with the crow and the goshawk, then, the coyote is no doubt an outstanding factor in the wholesale destruction of prairie chicken.
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A Note to Mr. Turner.
You say, “A growing scarcity of wild game must be expected, in-settled regions, etc.” It is just as easy to say a growing abundance may be expected.in settled regions. Try mak- ing the grouse very abundant on a small prairie quite near a town. We can tell you how to do it. and we. can..send you the men who have the ability to do? it.
OUR AQUATIC PLANTS AND THEIR VALUE IN POND FISH CULTURE.
Frequent, reference has been made to the necessity of vegetation in fish ponds. Its advantages are many. It serves as food and a harbor for the lowest forms of minute animal life. Each advance in the scale of life constitutes a food for higher forms, and in the guise of fish the fertility of the ground contributes to the food of the human race.
Plants play an important part in the purification of water, taking up the car- bonic acid gas liberated by decomposi- tion and exhaling the oxygen essential to living creatures. They thus prevent the asphyxiation of fish life, and act as a corrective of many abnormal char- _ acteristics of individual waters.
Losses of fish through the depreda- tions of enemies will be greatly lessened where there is an abundant aquatic growth in which they may hide. It fur- nishes a grateful shade on bright warm days, and the interlacing roots so bind the bottom soil as to prevent turbidity from casual disturbances.
The aquatic flora of a locality varies greatly with its latitude and is also gov- erned by the chemical ingredients of specific waters. The most desirable species usually thrive best in waters of limestone origin. Plants of filamentous character are preferable to the large reg-
ular-leaved kinds, as they present great- er surface expanse for the exchange of gases, and, on account of their shallow rootage, are more readily controlled by the fish-culturist. Pond lilies, cat’s-tail, and coarse water grasses or weeds in moderation are beneficial, as they afford shade and shelter. However, they are lower forms of oxygenators than the plants of finer growth, and they make seining operations more difficult; and it is practically impossible to eradicate them after they have obtained a foothold. All species herein described which are indigenous to the waters of the locality in question may be. advantageously util- ized in pond-fish culture. Undoubtedly one or two of the introduced species will eventually drive out the others, but those remaining will be the ones best adapted to the environment. All of these will grow from cuttings, making it unneces- sary to transplant the roots. The plants may simply be raked or pulled out of the open waters and pressed by hand- fuls into the soft earth in the shallow sections of the new pond, in spaces about 5 feet apart. The bottom must be cov- ered with 6 to 12 inches of water during the operation, otherwise the sun and air will soon ruin the sets. In deep water the plants may be started by attaching
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Fic. 1.—Spiked water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum). Found in deep water. New- foundland to Manitoba and the Northwest Territory, south to Florida, Iowa, Utah, and California. Commonly known as fox- tail. Suited to southern ponds of high temperature, and unlike most species will thrive in comparatively ‘Parrot-feather,” and introduced species of Myriophyllum will make better growth in sterile ground than the foxtail; otherwise the two have similar characteristics.
Fic. 2.—Hornwort (Ceratophyllum demersum). Found in ponds and slow streams through- out. North America, except extreme north. This plant is shallow-rooted, deriving most of .its sustenance from the water.: Will thrive in cold spring water.
soft waters. .
Fie. 3.— Fanwort (Cabomba carolimiana). Found in ponds and slow streams, southern Illinois to North Carolina, south to Florida
. and Texas. Characteristics similar to Cera-
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Fia. 4.—Chara fragilis. A common form of
chara. There are many varieties of this species and all are classed very high as food producers and oxygenators. Grows profusely in all limestone waters through- out the United States,
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a weight and sinking them to the bottom of the pond.
Much time and trouble are often re- quired to bring about a profuse growth of aquatic vegetation,* but after a pond is thoroughly stocked even more labor is required to keep it within botnds. Ponds may become literally choked with water mosses, resulting: in inconvenience to the owner and a detriment to the fish. They will roll the seines, snag the lines, and smother the fish when an attempt is made to draw down the water. It, will usually be necessary to thin the moss
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summer, and all growth should be re- moved when draining the pond. An efficient method of removal is by raking, the worker standing on the embankment and throwing the moss out on land, or wading into the shallow water of the pond and drawing it from a circle about him and building cocks of it. The deep- er waters will have to be worked from a boat or raft.
*All but one of the cuts published herewith are copied from Briton & Brown’s “Illustrated Flora of North America.” The figure of Chara is taken from the “Text Book of Bot-
; : f any,’ by Strasburger, . Noll, Schenk, and out once or twice in the course of a Scmeen ; Ee
NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES.
The Game Market.
The largest New York dealers in dead game report that they are paying $3.00, $4.00 and $4.50 per pair for pheasants and that there is a good demand for pheasants.
They also report to The Game Breeder that they are buying wild ducks for $2.50 per pair. One dealer says he is getting all the wild ducks he can handle at this price but that he could handle many thousands more at a slightly reduced price.
Our latest reports of sales of live
pheasants are for $4.00 and $5.00 per.
bird. A few breeders report they have been getting six dollars for hen pheasants. There have been a few pheasants sold as low as $3.00 per bird, but these, we believe, are late hatched birds and very few have been reported at this price. There seems to be plenty of near mal- lards which are selling alive at $2.50 and $3.00 per pair for birds guaranteed strong on the wing and suitable for sport. Straight wild mallards are in demand and are quoted at $4 and $5 per bird. Pure black ducks, guaranteed to lay eggs are in big demand and bring even better prices. Black ducks which are not guar- anteed to lay sell for about the same price as near mallards, $2.50 per pair alive or dead. Wild geese are selling at $5.00
per bird, much higher prices being asked ror mated pairs which reared broods.
Our advertisers can supply plenty of stock birds and are always willing to quote prices to intending purchasers.
Live quail, northern birds, are quoted at $25 to $35 per dozen and these birds seem hard to procure at any price.
Food ices!
Some people complain of the high cost of food for pheasants, wild ducks and other game birds. They should remem- ber that pheasants are selling for nearly twice as much as they did when the prices for food were lower. The advance in the price of the birds keeps the industry still very profitable. Many of our members write that the pheasants are the most profitable live stock on the place..,
Wild Diucke: Abandant,
The wild ducks including “near mal- lards” have become so abundant that the prices have not gone up as the prices of pheasants. But even the “near mallards” which are suitable for sport and for food bring more alive and dead than tame ' ducks do and there are many places where the food bill can be much reduced by planting pond weeds, wild rice, wild cel- ery and other natura! foods. Acorns, also, are excellent food, both for wild ducks and for upland game. At one
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place in which we are interested we have observed the ducks in the woods eating acorns and upon one occasion we were surprised when we repeatedly flushed ducks among the oak trees far from any water.
Report From a Dealer.
One of the largest dealers in game in New York reports that he is now fairly well supplied with wild ducks from game farmers and preserves and believes the prices must come down some before there will be a big increase in the demand for this food.
Nonsense Rampant!
The Game Conservation Society was
making arrangements to import some quail from Mexico for experimental work on its new breeding farm. It desired to procure a few Mearns quail and a few black-throated quail in addition to some bob whites. The people who have an abundance of stock birds wished to sell. _ We wished to purchase.
In answer to a letter addressed to the Biological Survey at Washington, asking for permission to bring inthe birds, the society was notified by one of the clerks that no quail could be imported until next March when, perhaps, permits would be issued. No one, of course, should dis- turb the birds as the breeding season ap- proaches. We do not want spring birds. This refusal was confirmed by the chief in answer to another letter explaining that the results of our proposed experi- ment would be published in a book to be issued by the society which was being written by the editor of The Game Breed- er. The society offered to make a special report to the Survey of the results of the work contemplated. We believe it would result in increasing our food supply.
Nothing doing! WE say you can not have the quail you want for breeding purposes. That’s all. Lovely public ser- vants, these!
In answer to a third letter asking the Survey to kindly inform the society why they would not let it have quail for breed- ing purposes, the Survey wrote they were afraid the quail would take cold. This
excuse (although it is true there were some losses last year which possibly were due to the cold), does not appear to be as good an excuse as the anti-breeding survey had when we first proposed to bring quail from Mexico a year or two ago. ©The denial then was based on an imaginary idea of the game law expert of the Survey that wild birds might have diseases therefore, etc., we could not have any stock birds.
Our readers will remember that we suggested that wild birds were noted for their health and the presumption was that they were healthy and not that they were diseased. At all events any loss would fall on the purchaser.
It was decided to inspect the birds, to quarantine them and if found sound and well to let the breeders have some during a certain season when it pleased the Sur- vey to be agreeable. A doctor (presum- ably the most noted quail specialist), was despatched to the border. The quail in quarantine appeared very lively and well, and fortunately they were not held up long enough to become-diseased as we feared they would be. Many birds came in and were purchased by the Game Con- servation, Society and others. There are some bad reports, we are told, from some State Departments which lost some birds. Birds taken to the mountains of Penn- sylvania are said to have perished from the cold. It is our private opinion that something entirely different was the mat- ter and that the quail specialist would have so reported had he been called in again. Quail often do not do well if improperly handled. We have an ex- pert who knows all about this matter and he avoids losses.
One of the things the Game Conserva- tion Society is prepared to demonstrate is that quail properly handled and not too closely confined can be multiplied with startling rapidity. That they will not take cold as the game law expert depart- ment imagines they will; that they can be made an abundant food.
But you can’t do this says the Survey, “for we ourselves have said it.” That settles it. No doubt, “you yourselves have said it,” but it’s not “greatly to your credit,” is the opinion of the Game Con-
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servation Society and we can see no rea-
son why you should wish thus to dis-|
grace the Secretary of Agriculture, who is responsible for your action.
A few people expressed surprise at our opposition to the Migratory Bird Law, so called.
Do you wonder, worthy reader, that we think it is not to the best interests of game breeders or of the American peo- ple at large to turn over the crime-making power of Congress to people who have notions like the above as to what others should be permitted to do, notions which any one with common sense will say are not only wrong, but ridiculous.
The proposed new law in effect cre- ates a new house of Congress, composed of people who refuse to let breeders have stock birds and some others whose con- duct recently has not met with the ap- proval of sensible people. Next to the man who really engineered the refusal to permit us to experiment with the Mexi-
cans (we fortunately have a lot of north-
ern quail), stands the man who recently
_ tried to close-absolutely the food pro-
ducing area, Long Island. .
These are the people who propose that Congress shall delegate to them the right to make criminal laws and also to exe- cute the laws they, make; they are to have the same powers as respectable United States marshals have, we are told.
The animus of these people towards the food producers has been shown often enough to make us view with alarm the turning over to them of the crime-making powers of Congress with the right to execute the laws they may make. Those who know what is going on thoroughly understand why we do not hesitate to express our opinion of what we regard as worse than a legal absurdity. There may be enough money in sight to put the law through. We hope and believe there are enough statesmen in Congress to defeat it. If they give it careful con- sideration that will settle it. a
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Now is a good time to send in your egg advertisements. Many people want early eggs and to get them will place their orders early.
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A Fish Enemy.
Guide Algie P. Farnham while going the rounds to his traps last week came upon a large blue heron on a brook. He shot him, took out eight trout out of him and two of these weighed over half a pound and were just killed by the heron,
Ducks Damage Rice.
Resolutions condemning the state fish and game commission were passed at a meeting of the Pacific Rice Growers’ As- sociation held recently.
Th action, taken on motion of H. O. Jacobsen, general manager of the West- ern Rice Company’s interests in Butte County, denounces the commission for its opposition to legislation that might tend to lessen the loss to crops caused by wild fowl.
A demand is made that the commis-
sion thoroughly investigate the damage
done by ducks to rice and present a meas- ure before the next legislature amending the existing game laws so that growers can effectually fight the ravages of ducks when they invade the fields. It was stat- ed that the damage already done this year would amount to many thousands of dollars—Sacramento, Cal., Union.
*Ware the Goshawks Migrating From Arctic.
A warning to sportsmen and others that a dangerous migration of goshawks from arctic regions to this state is in progress has been issued by the state fish and game commissioners and the Massa- chusetts Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation. The commissioners urge the de- struction of these birds, which are de- scribed as deadly enemies of native game birds.
The present invasion is said to be the most serious since that of eleven years ago, when the birds, driven southward by a scarcity of hare and ptarmigan, their usual prey, came to this state and de- voured grouse by the wholesale. The goshawk, which, unlike other hawks, flies straightaway instead of in circles, is somewhat larger than a pigeon.—The Globe, N.Y.
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Because quail are said to be insectiv- orous birds and beneficial to the farmer, it does not follow that he should be pre- vented by law from making these splen- ‘did food birds profitably plentiful and keeping them so.
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The way to make any food abundant is to show how this can be done profit- ably. The reason why the pheasants and certain species of wild ducks have be- come tremendously plentiful in many places in America is that the laws permit
their production for sport and for profit
and The Game Breeder furnishes in- structions how to conduct the industry ; how to procure stock birds and eggs and how to market the game alive and dead.
The reason why quail and grouse, both the grouse of the open country and the woodland species, are becoming scarce and in some places are extinct, is that the laws do not permit in many states the profitable production.
THE VANISHING PRAIRIE GROUSE.
Last month we printed the statement of Mr. J. P. Turner, of Manitoba, that, “the steady decrease in the number of prairie chicken has been the source of much wonder, speculation and argu- ment.” Mr. Turner added, “The ques-
tion is controversial to the last degree, for the reason that there is no final au- thority to consult, no arbiter before whom to lay the innumerable claims, and no one in fact who would care to assume so risky an honor.” -
It is fair to Mr. Turner to say that he was not a member of the Game Conser- vation Society, and did not know at the time he wrote the above lines that The Game Breeder quickly could tell him, not only why the grouse vanish but also how to stop the vanishing, and how to make and keep the grouse very abundant and cheap in the markets. Any little prob- lem like the above always can ‘be laid before The Game Breeder as an arbiter and quickly it will forward a solution which will amount to a perfectly satis- factory demonstration.
The Natural History which deals with
the increase and decrease of species is an
exact science. Darwin says: “Lighten any check, mitigate the destruction ever so little and the number of the species will almost instantaneously increase to any amount.” Often we have pointed out that the converse of this proposition equally is true. Add to the checks to in- crease, add to the destruction ever so lit- tle and the number of the species will almost instantaneously decrease and pro- ceed rapidly to the vanishing point. Darwin says, “The grouse if not de- stroyed at some period of their lives would increase in countless numbers;
‘they are known to suffer largely from
birds of prey,” etc. It is well known that in Scotland the birds of prey are controlled to a large extent and the con- ditions for the rapid increase of the grouse are made as favorable as pos- sible. The result is that many thousands of grouse annually can be shot on many
places without any fear of exterminating
the species, The danger seems to be that the grouse will become over abun- dant, as they have in some seasons. The result is an epidemic. When, says Dar-
win, a species wing to highly favorable’
circumstances increases inordinately in numbers in a small tract, epidemics—at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals—often ensue. :
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Grouse are not hand-reared or bred by any artificial process on the moors, the owners simply rely upon beat keepers who guard and protect the grouse from natural and domestic enemies and who mitigate the losses due to climate, fires, etc., as far as possible.
‘We have a perfect demonstration in Scotland indicating what will happen if the checks to increase be mitigated liber- ally. We have an excellent illustration in Manitoba and the other grouse prov- mces and states as to what must happen when the checks to increase are liberally multiplied. Add dogs, cats, rats, prairie fires, wires, farm machinery and even a little shooting to the ordinary checks to increase and for good measure destroy the covers which conceal the grouse from their enemies and destroy also the winter foods and it seems to us it does not re- quire 2 very wise arbiter to decide why the grouse vanish. We have never seen
any occasion for “the wonder, speculation
and argument” to which Mr. Turner re- fers. Mr. Turner is wrong in saying there is no one who would care to as. sume the “risky honor” of deciding what with the American grouse. We assume “risks” of this character with pleasure.
* The Game Breeder always is ready to decide questions which arise in its field. It has an excellent staff of practical and Scientific correspondents and its judg- ments can be relied on. It does not con- sider the present decision a “risky honor.” There can be no risk where the proof is abundant. There is little honor in discovering common sense after it has been written in books. There is plenty of evidence procured on the moors to prove what will happen when the checks to imcrease are reduced; there is plenty of evidence in America to prove what will happen if the checks to increase be multiplied. Mr. Turner, in his little book, furnishes plenty of evidence to os why the grouse vanish in Mani- oba. —
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LEGISLATION BY STAMPEDE. A Letter to Congress.
We have received letters saying: Write to your Congressman! Tell him to support the Migratory Bird Treaty Bill, etc. Thou-
sands of such letters and telegrams have been sent out to people informing them of an ef- fort to save the song birds and to stop the spring shooting of ducks. Most people, who did as requested, had no idea what Congress was asked to do. Many simply attempted to stampede their Congressman without read- ing the proposed bill. We have read the bill and we will write to our Congressman as requested. We will send this general let- ter to all of the Congressmen in the hope that they will defeat the bill as it is written. Good statesmanship requires this. The bill should be re-written.
There can be no objection to a proper law making it criminal to kill migratory song and insectivorous birds at any time except when they are found injurious to crops, or to a law prohibiting the shooting of wild ducks in the breeding season. Such a law can be written in simple language and placed in the statute book with other criminal enactments where the people liable to arrest can find it.
The present bill proposes to turn over to certain people, game law enthusiasts, the right to make criminal laws or regulations and also the right to execute the laws they may make as often as a new idea occurs to them. Evi- dently the proposed law was not written by a lawyer or by any one familiar with legal principles. I have asked those who should know the author, who wrote the bill? but I have had no answer to the inquiry. The ideas evidently are those of “the game law expert of the Biological Survey,” who I am informed is not a lawyer and who, I am quite sure, does not understand what a. criminal law should be. Blackstone says criminal laws should be simple, uniform, universal. They certainly should be easily understood and not subject to repeated changes which will re- sult in people being arrested. It should not be a crime to do anything in one place or on one side of an imaginary line and not on the other side of the line. The numerous regu- lations already made, and often changed, in- dicate the industry of those who believe that game can be made plentiful by making and executing many laws. There are scientific reasons, well known to naturalists why the game has vanished after the enactment of thousands of laws (similar to the proposed regulations) which have resulted in tens of thousands af arrests, fines and jail sentences, often for doing things which have no element of wrong doing and which are not crimes in any country where game is an abundant food.
Why should the regulations for the taking of migratory wild fowl in America be made so strict as to prevent any sale of the desir- able food when similar foods are abundant
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and cheap in all of the markets of the world excepting America?
The birds are bred on preserves, the would- be law makers answer, when we ask this question. This is not true. The migratory fowl, the pochard, which corresponds to our red-head and canvasback. The widgeon, which is much like our widgeon, the teal very like our teal and other migratory ducks, which are marketed are not bred on preserves. The wild duck bred on preserves abroad is the mallard, or to a large extent a stock duck des- cended from the mallard and this bird is rapid-
ly becoming abundant in the hands of breeders.
in America. We would like to know why it is necessary to turn over to a band of game-law enthusiasts the right to make numerous crim- inal laws or regulations about the wild food birds and also to execute these laws, with the powers of United States marshals. We would like to know why it is necessary to do this in America where the migratory wild ducks now are more abundant than they are in England and why the migratory birds can be sold cheaply in the English markets and the American people must be denied this de- sirable food? How would it do to amend the law and make it apply to the migratory fish which are taken in nets both in America and abroad ?
Granting that the game law enthusiasts who, we are informed, are fabulously well paid for their enthusiasm, are very desirous of taking over the crime-making power of Con- gress so that they can tell the people just what they can do and arrest and jail them with the powers of marshals, we believe good statesmanship should result in Congress re- fusing the demands until the whole matter has been fully investigated both from a legal viewpoint and from the viewpoint of able naturalists who should be consulted.
We believe if an amendment should be of- fered defining the proposed crimes and fix- ing the penalties so that the law will be a proper criminal statute, uniform, universal, simple, easily found and understood, in a word, a criminal act such as a lawyer would write and to be executed by the regular of- ficers who execute other laws,—We believe if such an amendment be offered, an African will be disclosed in the woodpile.
It will be a great disappointment, we are sure, to the inventors of the new style legis- lation not to have both the right to make, but also the right to execute criminal laws which may suit their fancy. These people recently, when we legally procured breeding stock in Mexico, said you can not bring those birds into this country to produce food., We have the right to issue permits and we wont issue any until the next breeding season. No one who knows anything about wild birds would disturb them at such-a time. They would not lay eggs. The reason why we go to Mex- ico is that laws have been secured preventing our getting stock in the United States.
The production of game for food under
evident.
licences issued by. the state game departments. is a very big and growing food producing industry in America. It is popular and profit- able. It is encouraged by state game officers. Millions. of food birds and deer now are pro- duced. for food. ae
Those prominent in asking that the right to make and execute criminal laws be given to them have shown a decided hostility to the - breeding of birds for food, birds which the great Audubon lists as highly desirable foods. © Very recently an attempt was made to stop food production on Long Island, N. Y., for- tunately without success. Our producers won after a spirited contest. But the animus of the leading spirit of those who wish to be- come legislators, judges and marshals was Attempts to prevent any food pro- duction in other parts of the country recently have required our attention.
When we asked a leader in the present ef— fort to secure one more law, if the bill could be amended so as to read that nothing in the act or proposed regulations should be held to apply to birds owned by licensed breeders, we were told that the “game law expert” would be consulted. Later, we were informed that no such amendment would be entertained.
As we understand the bill it in effect cre- ates a third house of Congress with greater powers than the House or Senate; with power not only to make numerous criminal laws, but also with power to execute the laws or regu- lations when made. Already there is in exist- ence a new legislative body created under a prior act which was of such doubtful con- stitutionality that it was deemd to be nec- essary to get a treaty with Canada in order to try a new law based on the treaty. The obligations of the treaty easily can be car- ried out by a simple enactment prohibiting the killing of migratory song birds, except when ‘found injurious to crops, and prohibit- ing the killing of migratory food birds dur- ing a season, named in the act, and defin- ing the penalties. a
It is not necessary or desirable, especially at this time, to turn over to those who be- lieve in extraordinary restrictions the right to make laws and to change them often.
It has been claimed that the wild ducks have become very abundant. They have. This is largely due to state laws prohibiting shoot- ing during the breeding season, but it is espe-~ cially due to the fact that thousands of Can- adian sportsmen have been shooting larger game than ducks. We believe that no harm will follow permits to take hundreds of wild ducks for breeding purposes. We believe it would be safe to.permit-the sale of ducks legally taken in states which now permit such sales of food. .If England and the other countries with a much larger popula- tion, in proportion to their wild duck area than America has can have wild ducks cheap in the markets, just as we have fish and oysters cheap in our markets, it would seem
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to be good statesmanship to have a careful investigation made before turning over the handling of this food supply to a small band of enthusiasts who profit largely by their game saving industry, but who have not pro- duced any game.
We respectfully suggest to our Congress- men that such an investigation be made be- fore any action on the bill be taken.
We have a National Bureau of Fisheries, highly creditable to the nation. We believe if the question of our game as a food supply can be carefully considered the result may be the creation of a bureau of game con- ducted on the lines of the Bureau of Fish- eries. Such a bureau of game easily could provide stock birds and eggs for those who would multiply them with scientific advice as to propagation, just as the Bureau of Fish- eries supplies fry and fingerlings to those who wish to breed fish. Why not create a Bu- reau of Game. It will become a great monu- ment to the one who secures such legislation.
We have had a Bureau of Game Law ex- perts which has not supplied the people with game for food. It has provided and advo- cated many state laws which have prevented a food producing industry which well might be encouraged and not prohibited. The area for public shooting in America is tremendous, larger than the entire area of many coun- tries. which have game in abundance.
The American sportsmen rapidly have
adopted our idea that game breeding on cul-’
tivated farms where shooting is now pro- hibited is beneficial to their interests and not harmful. ‘4 ; a ; erie,
If it be true, as if is, that there are more pheasants produced in America today than in any country in the world and that this is so because the restrictions favored by those who seek the present enactment have been mitigated so as to make it not criminal to produce and sell this food: If it be true, as it is, that there are more wild ducks -in America than in many countries which have ducks for food it would seem that there is no reason for haste in turning over to those who have recently been opposed to food pro- ducins and to the taking of birds for breed- ing purposes the right to make more restric- tions similar to those which have destroyed the game market in many states.
Many sportsmen who entertain this opinion are away. We would respectfully urge Con- gress to fully consider the proposed measure before enacting it. We would like to see the
bill referred to the judiciary committee for
an oninion as to the propriety and constitu- tionality of turning over the crime making powers of Congress to those who seek to exercise it.
We believe this constitutional question is pending in the Supfeme Court of the United States. When the first migratory bill was enacted and the- court.avas-asked to consider it. the late Judve Beaman. of Colorado, a well known sportsman, asked leave to appear
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and file a brief in the Supreme Court urging that criminal laws should be statutes and not regulations. It would seem advisable to defer action in Congress until the court shall render a decision.
Certainly there is no need for haste unless it ‘be true, as a man who is on the inside recently informed us that a big political deal. is being played in Washington. A _ sorry time to play politics with a food question! If it be true it might be well.to inquire what are the politics of those who seek the right to say what others may do.
That game is not vanishing under a new style of state legislation quite different from that. proposed soon will be amply demon- strated. We believe our Game Conservation Society will keep the hospitals full of game, without cost during the continuance of the war. This would have been impossible had we not been able to have some of the laws secured by those who are behind the present measure amended.
We respectfully ask our Congressmen not to act hastily; not to be stampeded, but to give the bill a careful consideration. Is it a proper bill from a legal standpoint? Does it provide for a regulated sale of desirable food such as has been provided for recently in many states?
Should it not be amended so as to provide that nothing in the act shall be held to apply to birds owned by breeders until they de- part and become migratory?
We believe the bill should provide that the new lawmakers shall issue permits to take stock birds for breeding purposes.
In many states they have secured laws per- mitting the destruction of 50 birds per diem, or some.other number, but have prevented any one from taking a single bird for breed- ing purposes. Since those who propose to make and execute the new restrictions re- cently have refused permits to bring in stock birds purchased in Mexico we have a right to our opinion that they are not friendly to
production and that. an important food in-
dustry which is popular and prospering in many states should not be governed and regu- lated by those who oppose it.
Why should not food producers have the opportunity to take their chances with United States marshals and special deputies respon- sible to them, instead of being regulated by a special force practically responsible to no one.
We believe food producers should be treated as fairly and leniently as moonshiners, smug- glers and violators of the postal laws. are. Their offences often will be found, as they have been under state laws, to be due to mistake, and the offences in no case will be found to contain the element of moral turpi- tude ‘usually* present “in other’ national of- fences. America rapidly is becoming the biggest game producing country in the world, hut this is due to a mitigation of the restric- tions in state laws which were similar to the
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proposed enactment, but in many cases not so bad.
America rapidly became noted for the vast amount of crime in the country, a large part of this was due to the game laws and much of it has occurred by reason of amateur of- ficers seeking “To make.a case,’ often for a ’ moiety or reward.
We predict that if the present law be enacted there will be another sorry report of crimes and arrests, many of which should not be made and that the report of criminals bagged will show the arrest of honest breed- ers who may have migratory birds for breed- ing purposes or who may sell the food pro- duced. The number of cases will bé made the basis of a request for a much bigger appropria- tion than is now asked for, and in this connec- tion we would point out that the appropriation asked for is not enough to police one of the smallest states. What kind of people are _to be found now willing to act as game police- men? They should be strong enough to be available elsewhere where many of those in whose interest I write this letter have gone. There is no hurry or need for haste.
There are and should be scientific founda- tions for proper laws. The crime making power should not be delegated. As we have observed criminal laws should be simple, uni- form and universal, permanent and not sub-
ject to repeated changes. There are scientific reasons why restrictive legislation, which has been tried in many states, never has been fol- lowed by an abundance of game for sport or for food. We respectfully urge our Con- gressmen, when considering the important measure referred to, always to have in mind the very old but very true saying that, * ‘Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.”
Ohio Quail.
Audubon speaks of the quail as “fat, juicy and tender; white and extremely agreeable to the palate.” . -
We can imagine the Ohio citizen singing: “If it be not fat for me what care I how fat it be.”
Bird lovers should take some consola- tion in the fact that the spirited Ohio hawks will have plenty of quail to eat even if they do cause some “terror and confusion,” as Audubon puts it, when the hawks go to dine. ©
We have seen a marsh hawk, in Ohio, sitting on a rail fence with one talon embedded in a live gue which he was eating.
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it seems, can be raised as easily and cheaply as domesticated ducks, and with equally excellent financial results. The way to do this is described with estimates of cost and citation of experience abroad, where the deficiency of food supply has ‘led to the discovery and elaboration of many remedies to which we have not yet been forced. Mr. Huntington’s book is illustrated with photographs, interesting alike to naturalists and breeders.”
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When the Scotch farmers found that by controlling hawks and other vermin they could have an abundance of grouse they soon learned that the farms were worth more than twice as much as they were without an abundance of grouse. Some Scotch moors were rented to American sportsmen, before the war, for more than they sold for a few years ago. The Ohio farmers easily can increase . ready to do so. The Game Breeder will tell them how.
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We offer Silver, Golden, ee _ Ringneck, Formosan, Lady #3, Amherst, China, White, Mongolian, Reeves, Swin- hoe, Versicolor, Elliott, Impeyan, Suemmer- ring, Machurian Eared, Black Throated Golden, Lineated, Peacock, Melanotus and Prince of Wales. Also all five varieties of peafowl. Wild Turkey, Japanese Silkies and Longtails, Crane, Swan, Mandarin, Mallard, Black, For- mosan Teal and other varieties of Duck. Crested, Ring and other varieties of doves. Deer, Jack Rabbits.
Send fifty cents in stamps for colortype catalogue.
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We have a number of requests for back numbers of The Game Breeder from people who wish to bind the volumes and preserve a complete record of the More Game Move- ment.
Wewill pay 20c each for a number of copies of the following issues in good condition :
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We have long entertained the opinion that it was worse than foolish for a department of the government to inter- fere with the importation of food birds for propagation purposes. It may be to our advantage to have the advertising season extended for live quail but The Game Breeder thinks more about what is right than about what is profitable.
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LIVE GAME
FOR SALE—Ringneck Pheasants, two years old, These are my breeding stock birds and are pinioned. $5.00 M. R. CHEESMAN, R. F. D. No. 3, Murray,
per pair.
Utah.
FOR SALE—1917 HATCHED JAPANESE SILKIES, Ringnecked and Golden Pheasants. S, GERHARDT PHEASANTRY, West Roxbury, Mass, 1t
WILD TURKEYS—For prices see display advertisement in this issue. W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Bucks
; County, Pa.
TWO WILD CANADIAN GANDERS—3 years old, un- mated, Grand Large Birds. $10.00 each or will exchange one fora goosesameage. WILLET RANDELL, North
Creek, N. Y.
WANTED— JAPANESE, VERSICOLOR AND Elliotts) MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK Co., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York,
2t
PHEASANTS, BANTAMS, PIGEONS, RABBITS. MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK CO., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York. 2t
WANTED—ONE PAIR OF SILVER, VERSICOLOR, Swinhoe, Impeyan and Wood Duck. State price. H. C. VINCENT, sz4 Main Street, Joplin, Missouri. rt
WE ARE BREEDERS OF PURE BRED CHINESE
Ringneck Pheasants and numerous fancy varieties, Send for our price list of pheasants, land and water game birds, deer, elk, and fur bearing animals, AMERICAN GAME ASSOCIATION, Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado. 3t
SIBERIAN FUR FARM, HAMILTON, CANADA;
breeds Foxes, Martin, Mink, Skunks, Wild Geese, Ducks, Pheasants and Black Siberian Hares. Send 25 cents for Booklet on the latter.
PURE BRED WILD WATERFOWL AT FOLLOW. ing prices: Mallards, $3.75 per pair. Puntails, $3 25 per pair. Green Wing Teal, $5.00 per pair, Blue Wing Teal, 3.75 per pair. Also redheads, Gadwalls, Widgeons, anvasbacks, Spoonbills, at reasonable prices. for propa- , gating and scientific purposes. GEORGE .J, KLEIN. Ellinwood, Kansas.
FIVE MONTHS OLD PET BLACK BEAR, $75. For sale. JOHN W. TALBOT, South Bend, Indiana, at
FOR SALE—YOUNG 1917 FULL WING RINGNECK cock and hen pheasants, field bred from unrelated stock. JOHN BUTLER, Easton Game Farm, Danielson, Conn.
(Route 1).
HOYT’S CALIFORNIA PHEASANTRY, PRICELIST. FRED D,. HOYT, Hayward, California,
GRAY STAR PHEASANTRY Breeder of all kinds of pheasants. Eggs in season, Pure brand, strong, healthy birds for sale. GIFFORD GRAY, 21 Ward St., Orange, N. J. LE Ee ee a ee eee
FOR SALE—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the pheasant family Pamphlet with order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren Co., New Jersey. (1ot)
PHEASANTS AND WILD TURKEYS
For Sale—2s50 pinioned Ringneck hens, 50 cocks, tgr5 birds, extra fine for breeders, 1mmeuiate delivery, tooo 1917 hens full wing or pinioned, 1500 1917 cocks full wing or pinioned. 1oo wild turkeys, October de- livery. These birds are reared on virgin soil and are vigorous a'd healthy. PORTAGE HEIGHTS GAME FARM, Akron, Ohio.
QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND
other animals. See display advertisement in this issue. WM. J. MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas- antry and Game Park. e
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS—
A limited number for sale now—the surest way to start breeding this species. We are the oldest and largest breeders of Canadas in this country. Black and White Swans,Wild Ducks, etc., forsale. WHEALTON WATER FOWL FARMS, Chincoteague Island. Va.
FOR SALE—GOLDEN PHEASANTS, YOUNG
and also full plumaged, pure, healthy, of non-related ; stock. Also some pure Mongolian males. ‘4 r SEIGLER, Bangor, Wis. Member of The Game Guild.
FOR SALE—PHEASANTS—AMHERST, PER PAIR
$15.00. Goldens, per pair $10.00. Silvers, per pair $8.00. Ringnecks, per pair $6.00. Ail 1917 hatched. All nice birds. GILBERT L. DAVIS, Mount Sinai, Island, N, Y. 1t
SIXTY VARIETIES THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Guineas, Pheasants, Peafowl Dogs. (Forty varieties Bantams.) Satisfaction guaranteed, F, C. WILBERT, Naturalist, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2t
$7.00 TRIO B. LANSHAMS, BUFF LEGHORN OR W. Leghorn. $5.00 for Sumatra game cockerels, WALTER DANE, Oshkosh, Wis. it
A NUMBER OF ENGLISH PHEASANTS, RING- necks. Very tame, fine for breeding purposes. A, B. C., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau S5t., New York. it
BELGIAN HARES AND FLEMISH GIANTS FOR sale. A1 stock. C. W. DIXON, 8612 Morgan Street, Chicago, Ill, it
PHEASANTS.—FOR SALE, A NUMBER OF GOLD-
EN, Silver and Ringneck Pheasants, for breeding. Guaranteed to be two years old next spring. OCCONEE- CHEE FARM, Hillsboro, N. C. it
LIVE GAME WANTED
WANTED — Reeves and Amherst Pheasants. State price, age and number. MARMOT PHEASANTRY, Marmot, Oregon. Member of The Game Guild. ~°
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WANTED—BLACK SKUNK, MINK, AND OTHER
fur bearing animals, also different varieties of pheas- ants,and game birds. Quote prices and full description, ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Littleton, Colorado, 2t
RAHLMAN’S PHEASANT AND GAME FARM. ’ Prices on application. Santa Ana, Cal.
PHEASANTS WANTED.
Between two and three hundred field grown young ringnecks for breeding purposes. In application particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and cocks and hens separately in such quantity for Fall or Winter delivery. Address A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX,
Pied Peafow]. Soemmerring, Cheer, Hoki and German Peacock Pheasants, Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels. Also Swinhoes; state price and number. R.A. CHILES & CO., Mt. Sterling, Ky.
FOODS
WILD DUCKS’ NATURAL FOODS. Will attract
them. [hese foods collected, examinations made, plant- ings planned and superintended. Write for free infor- mation, CLYDE B TERRELL, Specialist on the Natural Foods of Wild Ducks, Dept. Pi, Oshkosh, Wis.
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild duck food plants, and seed, Wild Celery. Sago Pond Weed, Widgeon grass, Red head grass, Chara and other kinds. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of water marshes where these, the best of duck foods, will grow and hold the game. Write and learn how to do it, WHITE'S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. Currituck Sound.
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An excellent food for deer, pheasants and wild ducks. I.can supply acorns by the bushel or in large lors. Write for prices. including shipping charges. W. R. McLEAN, R. F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina.
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BOOKS —E" Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Ginseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. By A. R. Harding. Price 60 cents each. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St, N. Y.
“LUMINOUS BODIES,” A VERY INTERESTING
and instructive volume, by Charles Hallock. Price, $1.00. Address: Sportsmen’s Review Publishing Co., 15 W. Sixth St.. Cincinnati, O.
“OUR BIG GAME,’ BY D. W. HUNTINGTON,
ccntains portraits and descriptions of all American big game animals. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N.Y.
‘OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS.” BY D. W.
Huntington. A practical book on wild duck breeding for sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“OUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D. W. HUNT-
ington, contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in color. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York.
GAMEKEEPERS
, GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED American game breeder with a 15 year experience wishes to raise 5009 ringnecks for a private party or State. and having an incubator and brooder plant. Apply to TH GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y.
ee eee POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad. Expert on rearing Pheasant Quail Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man-_ agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of field and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trapper of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager, J. H W., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR poultry farm, to finish my experiments in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex da old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not - if fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer. demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game, 20 vears’ experience in America and Europe.
S. HERBERT, care of Ga B . Ree ee me Breeder, 150 Nassau St.,
WANTED SITUATION—A GAMEKEEPER FAMIL- iar with pheasant and poultry rearing, I have also had experience in general farming and can plan the planting
for game. BRUCE LANE, care of G Nassau St., New York. Pe neat syras ce a
HEAD GAMEKEEPER—WANTED BY A THOR-
ough experienced man in raising all ‘kinds of wing game, wildfowl, turkeys, etc., on a large scale, and the management of very large game preserves both in Eng- land and America, One that can keep down vermin and show sport. Expert poultry man, understands incubators brooders, etc., and preparing birds for exhibition - raised over 3000 pheasants this vear. Apply to JOHN BRETT 289 Crosby St., Akron, Ohio, 1t
GAMEKEEPER.— SITUATION WANTED.—I can
furnish good English and American references. Thoroughly understend all the duties of a Game- keeper; can rear thousands of birds, and train dogs, &c. LI understand trapping and the control of vermin, and wish to get a place now so I can prepare it for breeding on a large scale next spring. Address J. H., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
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TO RAISE GAME. Wanted a partner to raise game on a sea island, A pleasant resort during the Winter. Write to the Owner care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York ;
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PHEASANTRY FOR SALE — JOHN L, WILLOCX pheasantry for sale—pure bred Chinese and young golden pheasants, JOHN L. WILLOCX, Hayward, California
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THE OBJECT OF THIS MAGAZINE IS TO MAKE NORTH AMERICA THE BIGGEST GAME PRODUCING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
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CONTENTS
Game for the Hospitals — Prairie Chickens Scarce — Inglorious__More Pheasants—A U.S. Department—_One More Law in Minnesota—_Congress
Should Inquire—More Game Prohibition—More About “Don’t Get. Blue.’
A Great Economic Question - - > ae - - Charles Hallock Notes from the Game Farms and Preserves - - - By Our Readers
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Hybrid Game Birds and Wild Fowl_Hawk Dines on Ruffed Grouse” —
-and Squirrel—Hawk Dines on Pheasant—More Geese—Destructive Gulls __Our Shipments in Maine—Cats__The Migratory Bird Treaty Act_Bird Scarcity Alarming__Free Entry of Game into Paris. ,
Text of the Treaty with Canada.
Note on the Treaty - - - - - - - ‘ By the Editor Long Island Quail - - - State Game Officers and Prohibition The Wood Duck Wo) tal Sse oe eh aE D. W. Huntington
Editorials —Charles Hallock_Footprints in the Sands of Time—The Migratory Treaty Bill_A Request for Information.
Outings and Innings—Trade Notes, etc.
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VOLUME XII
JANUARY, 1918
NUMBER 4
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SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
Game for the Hospitals. Our announcement that The Game _ Conservation Society would supply free - game to the hospitals during the period | of the war has been hailed with enthus- _iasm. No other society is equipped to _ do such work. We estimate that at least __ two thousand members of the society will _ contribute some game and from some ' members we expect to receive large dona- tions. Since the entire product of our . experimental farm will be donated, with the exception of a few of the rare birds which will be preserved for breeding pur- _ poses and possibly a few birds which may be given to the harvesters who will pay for the right to harvest the crop, under proper regulations, we are confident that a large amount of game will be sent to the hospitals and the people will be sur- : prised at the amount of game which has laws were amended so as to make it no longer crim- inal to produce all or certain kinds of
_ been produced since the game for sale as food. f
_ Prairie Chickens Scarce. The following newspaper clipping sent to The Game Breeder indicates that ‘prairie grouse need the protection of game breeders in North Dakota as else- where. The laws should be amended so as to encourage the profitable breeding of prairie chickens. Easily they can be made more plentiful than pheasants are. Fargo, N. D., Nov. 10.—Tuesday of last week marked the close of the prairie chicken season in North Dakota. The _ hunting was the poorest in the history of the State. Hunters now have turned their attention to pass shooting.
The recent cold weather brought many of the big Northern ducks into the sloughs and lakes, and some big bags have been brought into the city the last few days.
Crows and hawks are blamed by farm- ers for the scarcity of prairie chickens this year and not the hunters, who gave up this field of sport several weeks after the season opened when it was learned there were few prairie hers to be found in the State.
Inglorious.
We cannot comprehend why the U. S. Biological Survey still refuses permission for us to import quail from Mexico for experimental purposes, especially since the society has announced that the crop of game it proposes to produce would be donated to hospitals. We said noth- ing about this when we made the request | for permits for the same reason that we did not mention this fact in asking for the funds which have been contributed to carry on the work. We did not wish to make a charitable appeal but we pre- ferred to get the money from those who would like to have breeding experiments made with American game birds.
Of course the Survey is intensely in- terested just now in getting one more game law giving it the power to make many regulations which are in effect criminal laws and granting the right to appoint numerous game officers with the powers of United States marshals. Many States have been handling the game so creditably of late that we regret to see those who are evidently opposed to modern ideas given the right to inter-
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fere with the work of State game officers or with those who are actively engaged in producing more game.
More Pheasants. Under the heading, ‘Why Pheasants Are Scarce,” The Sportsman’s Review says: The decline of pheasant importa- tions by this country is graphically illus- trated in the following statistics, fur- nished by Mr. W. C. Henderson, acting chief, United States Bureau of Biologi-
cal Survey: Year Pheasants 1901). 025) Afpactad pee eee eee 23,398 USA Ace Hea ct RRS eta f 0 15,412 1 oS ea NR ERE eRe aerate ae 2 9,417 OO 7 eeaner ere RE RRM EON, eo 4,148 OMS 5 Whey ee ee cake cme | 15,841 DON Gur te gS aia o> <A 2,109 pO Teena mi ene er Sede 832
Nearly all the imported pheasants were ‘brought from England prior to the war; prac- tically no shipments are received from there mow. The largest shipments now coming in are. from Canada, with small importations mow and then from China and Japan.
Only live pheasants are reported under the law, hence the figures given above do not include birds brought over in cold storage for food purposes. Shortly before the war, the largest importer of pheasants of this class es- timated that annual importations amounted ito 9,000 birds. To-day not a bird is being imported for food purposes, an embargo hay- ing been placed on such shipments last Feb- tuary. Importers state that the supply of birds from England for food purposes kept up quite well till effect.
The heading, “Why Pheasants Are Scarce,” is not only misleading but false. As we pointed out last month, North America has become the biggest pheasant producing country in the world. One of our Western readers well said it will no Jonger be necessary to import any pheasants. There are thousands of pheasant breeders in the United States, some breeding very large numbers. Two sales of American-bred pheasants which happened to come to our notice this year amounted to more than twice the total number of pheasants imported from all foreign countries during the year 1916. Since there were many thousands of . sales of pheasants during the year, the number of birds sold in many cases being
the embargo went into
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large, we have no doubt that many more American-bred pheasants were sold in 1917 than were’ imported from all the foreign countries during the seven years cited in the report of the U. S. Biologi- cal Survey.
Possibly the Biological Survey will say they are not in the game bird business ; the Bureau of Animal Industry should know how many wild ducks and pheas- ants have been produced by industry. Some bureau should know about this food industry and if it is encouraged.
A U.S. Department That Sleeps Soundly. As we understand the term biological survey it is intended to indicate a govern- mental department provided to survey the pheasants as well as other forms of life and to make intelligent reports. During the last few years there has been a movement to which some one has given the homely term, “more game” move: ment (probably because The Game Breeder says “more game and fewer game laws”) which has resulted in the production and sale of millions of pheas- ants, wild ducks, quail and other game
birds. One would imagine that a depart-
ment named “biological” would be aware of such a movement and would have fig- ures available showing its vast economic | importance.
The movement is the result of the work of many scientists of ability and many intelligent sportsmen, with the dean of American sportsmen, Charles Hallock, who died last December in Washington, at their head. Many State game de- partments with wide-awake modern offi- cers have endeavored to encourage the production of pheasants and other wild food birds and have favored amendments to State laws which make it no longer criminal to produce such food on the farms.
The U. S. Department of Biological Survey seems to have slept soundly
_ through this great economic movement
which has resulted in making the United States the biggest pheasant producing country in the world. It seems to have no knowledge about the sales of millions
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of pheasant eggs, wild duck, wild turkev. quail and other game eggs. It seems to be entirely unaware that wild turkeys have become abundant in places where they were extinct. It seems to have slept so soundly that it appears to know nothing about what is going on in the field it is supposed to survey, or at least if it does know anything the figures are not available. Many people have big game ranches where thousands of game birds are produced. There are thousands of small breeders in the free States where food producing no longer is criminal.
One More Law in Minnesota.
The Secretary of the Game Protec- tive League writes the game conditions in Minnesota are better than they have been for a number of years; the legisla- ture placed a closed season on ruffed grouse, etc. From the Game Protective view this is fine, one more game law safe in the books. The sportsman who owns a grouse dog may continue to feed him and the fox, the crow, the hawk will continue to dine on grouse eggs and birds. been made to except grouse breeders who may prefer to have grouse in their woods and who might look after the birds if it was worth while to do so. We suspect the boys fond of snaring and trapping (we have kicked many such devices to pieces in the woods) will con- tinue their avocations and we have a notion there may be some gunners who have learned that grouse are edible who
- will take a shot at them when out after
rabbits, possibly not knowing that the birds are on the song-bird list.
The Congress Should Inquire.
We respectfully ask Congress to in- quire if the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has denied permits to import stock birds for breeding purposes. The Game Breeder charges that it has done so and that it has given as the reason for its refusal fear that the birds would take cold. We respectfully ask Congress to inquire if the Survey is opposed to food production
or if the only reason is that the Survey
No provision seems to have’
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fears the purchaser may suffer a loss
if the birds should catch cold.
The Game Conservation Society 1s willing to assume the risk of the birds taking cold and will give a bond, good and sufficient, conditional that this will not happen, provided the Biological Sur- vey will furnish any good and satisfac- tory reason why such a bond should be required.
The Survey should not be too busy getting one more game law to ask for a bond and let us have some stock for breeding purposes. We will promise to produce a big lot of food. We have done this before when we could procure breed- ing fowls early so they would forget their old home and get busy in the new one.
More Game Prohibition.
Changes affecting big game made by legislatures in session this year, according to a study made by E. W. Nelson, chief of the Biological Survey, and Messrs. Lawyer, Bancroft and Earnshaw, were nearly all in the direction of greater pro- tection.
The season on deer was closed in Oklahoma for five years and in Utah for three years. The killing of does was pro- hibited in Arkansas and Saskatchewan and in Mississippi, through the rejection of the game law of 1916, the old law pro- tecting female deer was left in force. On the other hand, protection was removed from does in Idaho and Wisconsin.
As a result of these changes does are now protected in fourteen of the thirty- two States in which deer hunting is open this year, in Alaska, and in four Canad- jan provinces.
Does are protected throughout the year and hunting restricted to bucks in Ala- bama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsyl- vania, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Alaska, and also in Alberta, Mani- toba, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.
The deer laws were made more liberal in California by permitting deer to be hunted with one dog and allowing a deer killed in a closed district to be shipped
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into an open district, and in Colorado by providing an open season of four days to begin in 1918. The limit on elk has been reduced from two to one in Saskatchewan. Much needed protection was given an-
telope in Nevada and Texas, and the sea-
sons extended on these and other big game in Colorado, Montana and Texas. Alberta extended the close season on an- telope to 1925.
It becomes more and more evident that game protection naturally leads to the prohibition of sport. The game breeders rapidly are making game plentiful in places where they have been able to keep the protective laws off of the game farms. All prohibition statutes should contain a clause stating that they dco not apply to ’ game owned by breeders.
~ ™ More About “Don’t Get Blue.”
Last month we printed the lament of Mr. Kurtz, of Loveland, Ohio, about the passing of the game and fur and we ad- vised him not:to get blue. We were sur- prised at the promptness with which the magazine reached him and at his quick reply which follows:
Editor Game Breeder:
In reference to your “Don’t Get Blue” comment on part only of an article of
[The part came to us in clipping. Send the rest.—Editor. |
mine kindly allow me to return the com- pliment plus some advice.
[we will scatter a little advice through your letter and hope you will “come again.” — Editor. ] ,
I have investigated the various pheas- ant and game farms in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. They are more or less effi- ciently and successfully kept. The owners and promoters of any such pre- serves and propagating farms should get the honors and praise of a real construc- tive conservationist. It is what we have been preaching for years, and in my talks to farmers and countrymen I have advo- cated a sanctuary and protected-zone on every place in this great country of ours.
[It seems to us you got your protected zone on quail a little too wide for sport or food in Ohio.—Editor. |
We are with you all right, dear Game
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riety
| , 3reeder, on any sensible scheme to pro-
duce game birds and animals.
[Can the producer sell the quail when pro- duced in Ohio ?—Editor.]
Unless we produce abundantly we will be obliged to curtail and restrict the toll that seems sure. |
[Will any one produce quail abundantly in Ohio as we do on Long Island, N. Y., and in other free States? We can shoot but would produce more if we could sell—Kditor.]
But I fail to find a man with common sense who would advocate or allow indis- criminate, free and epen shooting on any — such preserves especially when he con- siders his own expense account and ef- forts.
[We have often asked neighbors to shoot —
but only as many as we could have without extermination.—Editor. |
Unless the producer is assured of ab- solute protection he would be a fool to try the game.
[Keep the game laws off the farm and the producer will look after the game and its protection until it leaves his premises when those who do nothing will get some as they do in many places where game has been made plantiful—Editor. ] j
We notice the conspicuous “Positively no admission” sign on every successful game farm.
[The same is true of sheep farms and many others—practically all farms in Ohio — Editor. ]
Every countryman knows that free and indiscriminate hunting and gunning soon exterminates everything of fur or feathers.
[You are quite right, I have shot many wild pigeons near your post office. They are ex- tinct now.—Editor.]
In all my experience | failed to find ~ the hunter who hesitated to shoot a —
doliar’s worth of ammunition at a ten-
cent piece of game, especially when it cost him nothing to produce the bit. Individually there are no doubt fellows with sportsman’s sense and spirit, but collectively the gunners in the open fields care little but for getting their share and the other fellows, too.
I lamented the passing of the store- house wilderness. Great and wonder-— fully balanced wasn’t it? No wonder the Nimrod Redman hated and fought the pale-faced destroyer of same.
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A GREAT ECONOMIC QUESTION.
By CHarLes HALLocK.
at [The following article by the late Charles Hallock, dean of American sportsmen, was
sent to the editor some time ago.
We wished to consult him about a proposition to have a
bureau of game created by Congress to replace the present bureau which is largely given to
game laws.—Editor. ]
For fifteen years or more, say from 1870 to 1885, the solution of the great economic question of an abundant fish supply, involving with it the continuance
Charles Hallock,
and enjoyment of the popular sport of angling, was pushed with ardor by the United States Fishery Commission, an organization created by an especial act of Congress for the specific purpose re- ferred to. The precise words of the leg- islative text defined its duties as follows: “To prosecute investigations * * * with the view of ascertaining whether any and what diminution in number of food fishes of the coast and the lakes of the United States has taken place; and if so, to what causes the same is due; and also whether any and what protective, prohibitory or precautionary measures should be adopted in the premises, and to report upon the same to Congress.”
Readers of The Game Breeder will please note that this Fishery Commission had plenary powers, and that it had only to suggest in order to procure enactment. Its chief, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, was selected for his wisdom, his diplomatic ability and his comprehensive knowledge and grasp of the whole subject. The office was created for the only known person who was specially qualified for such an office. So fully did his proceed- ings justify the confidence of the govern- ment that millions of dollars were placed at his disposal and appropriations were renewed from year to year on an increas. ingly bountiful scale. As to the empha- sis of highest foreign testimony and ap- proval, Prof. Huxley declared before the “International Fisheries Convention’ at London in 1883 that “no nation at present comprehends the whole question as thoroughly as the United States,” and our people had fullest confidence of the ultimate outcome.
In consideration of these eminent of- ficial endorsements, it is worthy of re- mark that no legislative action was ever recommended by the Fisheries Commis- sioner. Functions of such vital eco- nomic consequence were not allowed in the hands of incompetents, or of merce- nary interests. Baird’s policy was to carry out the idea that it is wiser and better to expend a certain amount of the public money in making fish so abundant that they can be caught without restric- tion and serve as cheap food for the people at large, rather than to expend a much larger sum in “protecting” the fish, and in preventing the people from catching the fish which still remain after a generation of improvidence.
This I understand to be the conserva- tive policy now of The Game Breeder, not only as to fish but more emphatically
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as to game, and | honor the courageous leader of this new regenerative move- ment, the editor of The Game Breeder, for the manliness and persistent deter- mination with which almost single handed he has pushed it in the face of a prevalent adverse opinion. I rejoice to discover that he is rapidly winning over so many of the unprejudiced and misled opposition ; and I have an abiding faith that he will eventually win out al- together; and that then the sportsmen’s and anglers’ millenium will come! His organ ought to have a universal circula- tion, for it is the vehicle of a new gospel of beneficence.
The work of the United States Fish- eries Commission has ever been that of stimulation and co-operation, and is now, so far as it is permitted to act. The efforts of individuals have been encour- aged in every way and so have those of the State Fish Commissioners, fish cui- turists, angling clubs and associations, sporting journals, State Legislatures, and every other agency or instrument, how- ever humble, which has attempted to add to or preserve our fish supply, or inculcate in the prodigal mind a sense of economy, providence or thrift. For fifteen years protection and propagation were pursued on the original lines until it became ob- vious that nothing further could be ac- complished by processes already in vogue and a new departure was instituted. The outcome of subsequent efforts was set forth in an elaborate statement at the
London conference of 1883, and the pol- icy itself was for the first time openly declared. It is gratifying to state that it was at.once endorsed by men of the highest scientific attainments and the broadest views of political economy. Prof. Goode in his report on that occa- sion read this: “Public fish culture is only useful when conducted upon a gi- gantic scale.”
And so the question of the enjoyment of private rights to the exclusion of pub- lic participation becomes narrowed into a question between individual limited effort and thé potency of the government work- ing in the universal interest. There can be no doubt of the ultimate result. The longest pole knocks the persimmon. The plenary power of the United States Fish- eries Commission ought to be fully re- stored and the department of game prop- agation should be placed under its juris- diction.
P. S——Those who hope for betterment in present conditions must note with hearty satisfaction the spread of the Huntington idea throughout the com- munity all over the country. I might point out to State game officers the ex- pediency of permitting the sale of game for propagation, and that they should favor legislation permitting the sale of it by breeders under State supervision as food; and I would urge the Audubon Society to favor the movement openly, inasmuch as song birds are given a safe refuge in the preserves as well as game.
NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES.
Hybrid Game Birds and Wild Fowl.
One of our Western members says he recently shot a hybrid mallard pintail and asks if we had records of this inter- breeding. We have seen one mounted specimen of this hybrid which is one of the most frequent among wild hybrids. Wild hybrids, however, are not common ‘but are regarded as rare. Frank Finn, formerly deputy superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, says wild hy- brids are indeed rare, but they are of
much more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed. They are most num- erous among the species of the grouse family ; the cross between the black cock and the capercailzie occurs every year, and has even received a special name (Rakkelhane), from Scandinavian sportsmen. Many instances of crosses between the black-cock and red grouse have also been recorded, but curiously enough the latter bird and the ptarmigan, although so much more nearly related,
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appear never to interbreed. Various other grouse crosses have occurred, but for variety of hybrids the grouse must give place to the ducks. In this family at least two dozen distinct crosses have been observed, some of them several times, such as those between the mallard (anas boscas) and pintail (dafila acuta) and between the smew (mergas albellus) and golden-eye (clangula glaucion).
The duck family has afforded several undoubted cases of fertile hybrids. That between the pintail (dafila acuta) and the domestic duck, the descendant of the mallard, may be especially cited. In one instance ducklings were obtained from a pair of these hybrids, and more than once the hybrid has bred again with the pure pintail, the last instance being one recorded by Mr. J. F. B. Sharpe in the “Feathered World.” In this the hybrid duck laid eight eggs, all of which were fertile, and hatched seven ducklings, one egg having been cracked. She proved a particularly careful and _ intelligent mother, thus recalling the good repute of the mule canary as a nurse.
The fact that the pintail and mallard.
can produce a fertile cross shows that there are some’ other causes besides mutual sterility which keeps species dis- tinct in the wild state, for, as I have said above, the pintail mallard hybrid is one of the best known wild bred hybrids and yet the two species remain distinct on the whole.
Double hybrid ducks have occurred, as well as pheasants. M. G. Rogeron, of Angers, has bred many most remarkable ones from a hybrid between mallard and gadwall mated to a pochard, and more recently Mr. J. L. Bonhote has succeeded in raising ducks in which the blood of the pintail, mallard and Indian spot-billed duck was combined.
Hawk Dines on Plymouth Rock Ruf- fed Grouse and Squirrel.
Curator Thomas A. James of the State museum was asked concerning the great invasion of goshawks from the Arctic regions into Massachusetts as to the ex- tent the same pests had invaded Maine and received the prompt answer:
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“To no greater extent than in any other year. Some of them stop off on their flight from the colder regions every year and our small feathered game suffered therefrom. I have so far received twa specimens and have mounted them for the museum. They are death on our ruffed grouse, killing all they can reach. One of these specimens had in its stom- ach a Plymouth Rock chick, a ruffed grouse and a gray squirrel. They are the worst pests for our small feathered game there is.”—Maine Woods.
Hawk Dines on Pheasant.
Toledo, Wash., Nov. 10.—Emmet Koontz, who lives on Salmon Creek Road, killed a chicken hawk recently measuring 4 feet 2 inches from tip to tip. The hawk has been an annoyance for the last two or three years and when killed had a mouth full of Chinese pheasant meat, which proved that it had been prey- ing upon game birds as well as upon poultry yards.
More Geese.
A dispatch to the World, N. Y., says Wm. Firke, the Illinois “goose king,” will ship to the metropolitan markets during the present month (December) 75,000 birds, breaking his record of 50,000 reached one year ago.
This seems quite a lot of geese for one man to ship in a month but when the breeding of wild geese for sport and profit which is now in its infancy grows as it will rapidly as the laws are amended to encourage food production, we believe the number of wild geese shipped to the markets will be much larger than the fig- ures above mentioned.
Wild geese now easily are produced by breeders as far south as North Caro- lina and since they find most of their food when bred on proper ground they can be produced inexpensively.
The present price for wild geese alive is about $5 per bird, higher prices being asked for mated pairs which are guar- anteed to lay eggs. Most of the duck clubs from New England to the Gulf have pens of live wild geese which are used for decoys but there are a number of
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commercial breeders who can supply good numbers of wild geese and when the legal protection intended to save the van- ishing wild geese which are said to be- long to the State or the Nation because they have no other owner, are removed from the wild geese produced by indus- try, so that they can be handled as freely as other food is without legal interfer- ence, we predict that wild geese will be cheap in all of our markets. We formerly bought wild geese for 50 cents before we had the many game laws and we ex- pect soon to purchase them much cheaper than they are at present. If they can be
made a good sporting proposition sport .
will pay the cost of production and the - food being abundant will be cheap as it ig in more civilized countries where food produced by industry is not protected out of the markets by “fool laws” as the newspapers call them.
Destructive Gulls.
A newspaper clipping sent to The Game Breeder contains the following about the damage done by gulls:
Visitors . Sweeping flight of the thousands of gulls along the beach have just learned that the beautiful birds are eating up thousands of bushels of oysters and clams which might otherwise go for human food. Fishermen and oystermen have started a movement to have the State remove the ban on killing the birds because they consume shellfish used for food or bait, and the matter may be taken up at the com- ing meeting of the State Legislature. Protec- tion of the gulls was undertaken years ago because of their value as scavengers in the harbor waterways and they have increased by thousands until the flocks are among the at- tractive sights from the boardwalk.
The Rev. H. A. Macpherson, a talented writer on English sport, says: “The
black-backed gulls are very destructive ©
to young birds of every kind, especially the lesser variety. I do not think the great black-backed eull troubles much about grouse. He cares more for fish and for carion. But the lesser black-
backed gull is a shameless gourmand, and-
does a great amount of mischief. He likes the young wild ducks better than the tiny. grouse, but nothing seems to come amiss to his hungry maw. It occa- sionally happens that an old herring gull takes to felonious practices. They suck
of the winter who admire the,
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poisoned eggs. eagerly and I have seen individual birds beating the hill day after day searching for grouse nests. I have also known the herring gull to carry off chickens from a cottage door: But the grouse suffers more from hooded crows than from gulls or any other of its nat- ural enemies.” a Mr. Macpherson says in the Highlands the foxes are killed out so far as possible. It is very necessary to keep them down for they would commit sad havoc among the lambs if allowed to become numerous.
’ Deer Shipments in Maine.
The following from the Maine Woods evidently refers to the shipping of deer:
The game receipts at the Union Station, Bangor, are considerably behind what they were last year at this time when the total number shipped through was 2,273, against the 2,082 at present. The hunting for the last week has been much harder than in previous weeks on account of the deep snow in the woods and bearing a heavy crust.
A Cat’s Joy of Killing.
Permit me to refer to your editorial comment on the proposed investigation of the Association of Audubon Societies relative to the slaughter of birds by cats.
After a study of bird life extended over a period of forty years, it is the conclusion of the writer that the cat should find no friends among ornitholo- gists. I dispute the allegation that the killing is done “to interest, amuse and instruct the kittens,” although at times this is undoubtedly an attendant circum- stance. Within a few weeks I have ob- served a half-grown cat which had never known maternal joys in a constant hunt for birds: To the writer’s knowledge the creature killed three robins in two days, and there was circumstantial evidence that she destroyed a brood of myrtle warblers (worth all the cats in New Eng- land) was prevented a few days later from destroying a brood of catbirds, which doubtless she eventually con- sumed. The cat is cunning and persistent in her destruction of bird life and it is high time that her temperamental kul-
‘tur should be understood.
SANBORN G. TENNEY. Tow. VY: dames:
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THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT.
AN ACT—To give effect to the conven- tion between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded at Wash- ington, August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act shall be known by the short title of the “Migratory Bird Treaty Act.”
pec, 2. What unless and. except as permitted by regulations made as herein- after provided, it shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill, attempt to take, capture or kill, possess, offer for sale, sell, offer to purchase, purchase, deliver for shipment, ship, cause to be shipped, deliver for transportation, transport, cause to be transported, carry or cause to be carried by any means whatever, receive for shipment, transportation or carriage, or export, at any time or in any manner, any migratory bird, included in the terms of the convention between the
United States and. Great Britain for the
protection of migratory birds concluded
August sixteenth, nineteen hundred and
sixteen, or any part, nest, or egg of any such bird.
‘Sec. 3. That subject to the provisions and in order to carry out the purposes of the convention, the Secretary of Agricul- ture is authorized and directed, from time to time, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distri- bution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of such birds, to deter- mine when, to what extent, if at all, and by what means, it is compatible with the terms of the convention to allow hunt- ing, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, or export of any such bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, and to _ adopt suitable regulations permitting and governing the same, in accordance with such determinations, which regulations shall become effective when approved by the President.
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or carry, by any means whatever, from one State, Territory, or District to or through another State, Territory, or District, or to or through a foreign country, any bird, or any part, nest, or egg thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, or carried at any time contrary to the laws of the: State, Territory, or District in which it: was captured, killed, or taken, or from: which it was shipped, transported, or carried. It shall be unlawful to import any bird, or any part, nest, or egg there- of, captured, killed, taken, shipped, trans- ported, or carried contrary to the laws of any Province of the Dominion of Canada in which the same was captured). killed, or taken, or from which it was: shipped, transported, or carried,
Sec. 5. That employees of the De- partment of Agriculture authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce the provisions of this Act shall, with re- spect thereto, have the same powers as. are conferred by law on marshals with respect to executing the laws of the United States. That any warrant nec- essary to the enforcement of the provi- sions of this Act, or any regulation made thereunder, shall be issued by the sev- eral judges of the courts established un- der the laws of the United States, and the United States commissioners within their respective jurisdictions, upon proper oath or affirmation showing prob- able cause for the issuance of such war- rant. All birds, or parts, nests, or eggs thereof, captured, killed, taken, shipped, transported, carried, or possessed con- trary to the provisions of this Act or of any regulations made pursuant thereto shall, when found, be seized by any such employee, or by any marshal or deputy marshal, and, upon conviction of the offender or upon judgment of a court of the United States that the same were captured, killed, taken, shipped, trans- ported, carried or possessed contrary to the provisions of this Act or of any reg- ulation made pursuant thereto, shall be forfeited to the United States and dis-
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posed of as directed by the court having jurisdiction. Sec. 6. That any person, association, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of said con- -vention or of this Act, or who shall vio- late or fail to comply with any regula- tion made pursuant to this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
' Sec. 7. That nothing in this Act shall ‘be construed to prevent the several States and Territories from making or enforc- ang laws or regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of said convention or of this Act, or from making or en- forcing laws or regulations which shall give further protection to migratory birds, their nests, and eggs, if such laws or regulations do not extend the open seasons for such birds beyond the dates approved by the President in accordance with section three of this Act.
Sec. 8. That until the adoption and approval, pursuant to section three of this Act, of regulations dealing with mi- gratory birds and their nests and_eggs, such migratory birds and their nests and eggs as are intended and used exclusively for scientific or propagating purposes may be taken, captured, killed, possessed, sold, purchased, shipped and transported for such scientific or propagating pur- poses if and to the extent not in conflict with the laws of the State, Territory or istrict in which they are taken, cap- aured, killed, possessed, sold or pur- «chased, or in or from which they are -shipped or transported if the packages -containing the dead bodies or the nests “or eggs of such birds when shipped and ‘transported shall be marked on the out- ‘side thereof so as accurately and clearly ‘to show the name and address of the shipper and the contents of the package.
Sec. 9. That the unexpended balances
of any sums appropriated by the agri- cultural appropriation Acts for the fiscal ‘years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, for enforcing the provisions of the Act ap- proved March fourth, nineteen hundred
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and _ thirteen, relating to the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds, are hereby reappropriated and made available until expended for the expenses of carrying into effect the pro- visions of this Act and regulations made pursuant thereto, including the payment of such rent, and the employment of such persons and means, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, — co-operation with local authorities in the protection of migratory. birds, and nec- essary investigations connected there- with. ,
SEc. 10. That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or in- validate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof di- rectly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Sec. ll. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 12. That this Act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.
Passed the Senate July 30, 1917.
Attest : JAMEs M. Baker, Secretary.
“Near Mallards” Migratory.
We heard recently that many “near mallards” undoubtedly from the numer- ous game parks and preserves in the Northern States are shot in the South.
A member of The Game Conservation Society reported that a lot of his ducks which went South iast winter returned in the spring and brought ghar with them.
Our readers will remember the story of the mallard which Mr. Mcllheny trapped and shipped from Louisiana to Wisconsin and which soon flew home and was trapped a second time on Avery Island. There could be no doubt about the bird since it had a band on its leg.
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Bird Scdrcity Alarming. Conservation Commission Studies Decrease of Partridge.
The causes of the decrease in part- ridges is the subject of a comprehensive investigation now being conducted by the Conservation Commission through all of its game protectors and forest rangers, and in co-operation with fish and game associations and rod and gun clubs. The investigation is the result of alarming reports that have come from all quarters for the last two years. The commission hopes to establish by it not only the ex- tent of the decrease in the birds but also the broad underlying causes.
_ For more than two years every game protector and forest ranger has been re- quired to make weekly reports to the commission on all of the game that he has seen, and its condition from time to time. A great mass of statistics and other data on the partridges has been thus col- lected. In addition, a questionnaire has just been mailed to the entire field force and to 450 sportsmen’s associations, with a request that they supply the informa-
The questionaire asks whether there has been an increase or decrease of part- ridges in the district covered by the one answering the questions, and, if so, whether any one of a number of stated reasons are assigned as the cause. Among these reasons are hawks, owls, weasels, foxes, disease, rigors of winter weather, slaughter by man, bad nesting seasons, or other causes. The informant is also requested to state whether his experiences in the woods during the nest- ing season, and the period when the young birds are on the ground, has indicated that cats are a serious enemy of grouse.
One of the questions which it is hoped will yield valuable information is that which asks whether either young or old birds have appeared to be unusually sub- ject to disease, or have been attacked by ticks or other external or internal para- sites. Sporadic reports of such parasites have been reaching the commission from various quarters.
The informant is asked to state whether he finds that since the advent of
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the automobile the covers are more sys- tematically and frequently hunted by a larger number of hunters than formerly, who penetrate into mure remote districts, and, if so, to what extent he believes this to be responsible for the decrease.
The informant is further asked to state whether he advises a closed season for a number of years, the further shortening of the open seasons and a systematic cam- paign of vermin trapping to be carried on by sportsmen’s associaticns and others, under the direction of the Conservation Commission, ©
The Commission has already analyzed the climatological reports of the Weather Bureau for the last three nesting seasons, taking different sections of the State sep- arately, and has ascertained that in prac- tically all localities the rainfall has been very much above normal during the breeding season.
It is hoped that when the investigation is finished the data collected will throw real light on the condition of the part- ridges and indicate proper measures for their more effective protection.
Strange no one seems to mention game laws as a reason for the scarcity. Any naturalist knows that additional checks to increase cause the game to van- ish. Game laws have prevented people from looking after the game. The natur- alist, Dr. Shufeldt, pointed out that it was being protected off the face of the earth.
Free Entry of Game Into Paris is Asked.
Paris—The “Conseil General,” the deliberative body of the department of the Seine, has asked the government to per- mit the entry of game into Paris more ‘freely. This measure, it is held, would ease the meat and poultry market. The minister of agriculture has already au- thorized the shooting of wild ducks.
Before the war the yearly receipts of game at the central markets averaged 150,000 pheasants, 170,000 hares, 360,- 000 partridges, 620,000 larks, 450,000 rabbits, 250,000 water fowl.
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THE TREATY WITH CANADA.
Whereas many species of birds in the course of their annual migrations traverse certain parts of the United States and the Dominion of Canada; and
.Whereas many of these species are of great value as a source of food or in destroying insects which are injurious to forests and forage plants on the public domain, as well as to agricultural crops, in both the United States and Canada, but are nevertheless in danger of - extermination through lack of adequate protection during the nesting season or while on their, way to and from their breeding grounds;
The United States of America and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas, Emperor of India, being desirous of saving from indiscriminate slaughter and of insuring the preservation of such migratory birds as are either useful to man or are harmless, have resolved to adopt some uniform system of protection which shall effectively accomplish such objects, and to the end of concluding a convention for this purpose have appointed as their respective pleni- potentiaries :
The President of the United States of Amer:ca, Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the
United States; and
His Britannic Majesty, the Right Honorable Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, G. C. V. O., K. C. M. Gi, etc., His Majesty’s ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at Washington
iWho, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed to and adopted the following articles:
ARTICLE L
“The High Contracting Powers declare that the migratory birds included in the terms of this Convention shall be as follows:
1. Migratory Game Birds:
(a) Anatide of waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks, geese and swans.
(b) Gruide or. cranes, including little brown sandhill, and whooping cranes.
(c) Rallide or rails, including coots, galli- nules and sora and other rails.
(d) Limicole or shorebirds, including avo- cets, curlew, dowitchers, godwits, knots, oys- ter catchers, phalaropes, plovers, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet, woodcock, and yellowlegs.
(e) Columbide or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.
2. Migratory Insectivorous Birds: Bobo- links, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, grosbeaks, humming birds, king- lets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks or bull bats, nut-hatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, wax wings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all other perch- ing birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects.
3. Other Migratory Nongame Birds: Auks, auklets, bitterns, fulmars, gannets, grebes, guillemots, gulls, herons, jaegers, loons,
murres, petrels, puffins, shearwaters and terns. ARTICLE II.
The High Contracting Powers agree that, as an effective means of preserving migra- tory birds there shall be established the fol- lowing close seasons during which no hunt- ing shall be done except for scientific or prop- agating purposes under permits issued by proper authorities.
1. The close season on migratory game birds shall be between March 10 and September 1, except that the close season on the Limi- cole or shorebirds in the maritime Provinces of Canada and in those States of the United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean which are situated wholly or in part north of Chesa- peake Bay shall be between February 1 and August 15, and that Indians may take at any time scoters for food but not for sale. The season for hunting shall be further restricted to such period not exceeding three and one- half months as the High Contracting Powers may severally deem appropriate and define by law or regulation.
2. The close season on migratory insecti- vorous birds shall continue throughout the year.
3. The close season on other migratory non- game birds shall continue throughout the year, except that Eskimos and Indians may take at any season auks, auklets, guillemots, murres and puffins, and their eggs, for food and their skins for clothing, but the birds and Sees so taken shall not be sold or offered for sale
Apnicne III.
The High Contracting Powers agree that during the period of ten years next follow- ing the going into effect of this Convention, ; there shall be a continuous close season on the following migratory game birds, to-wit:
Band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill ° and whooping cranes, swans, curlew and all - shorebirds (except the black- breasted and gol- den plover, Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellow!egs); pro- vided that during such ten years the close seasons on cranes, swans and curlew in the Province of British Columbia shall be made
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by the proper authorities of that Province within the general dates and limitations else- where prescribed in this’ convention for the respective groups to which these birds belong.
: ArticLe IV.
The High Contracting Powers agree that special protection shall be given the wood duck and the eider duck either (1) by a close season extending over a period of at least five years, or (2) by the estabiishment of refuges, or (3) by such other regulations as may be deemed appropriate.
ARTICLE V.
The taking of nests or eggs of migratory game or insectivorous or nongame birds shall be prohibited, except for scientific or propa- gating purposes under such laws or regula- tions as the High Contracting Powers may severally deem appropriate.
ARTICLE VI.
The High Contracting Powers agree that the shipment or export of migratory birds or their eggs from any State or Province, dur- ing the continuance of the close season in such State or Province, shall be prohibited except for scientific or propagating purposes, and the international traffic in any birds or eggs at such time captured, killed, taken, or shipped at any time contrary to the laws of the State or Province in which the same were captured, killed, taken, or shipped shall be likewise prohibited. Every package contain- ing migratory birds or any parts thereof or any eggs of migratory birds transported, or offered for transportation from the Dominion of Canada into the United States or from the United States into the Dominion of Canada, shall have the name and address of the ship- ' per and an accurate statement of the con- tents clearly marked on the outside of such package.
Articte VII.
Permits to kill any of the above-named birds which, under extraordinary conditions, may become seriously injurious to the agricultural or other interests in any particular commu- nity, may be issued by the proper authorities of the High Contracting Powers under suit- able regulations prescribed therefor by them respectively, but such permits shall lapse, or may be cancelled, at any time when, in the opinion of said authorities, the particular exi- gency has passed, and no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold, or offered for sale.
ArticLte VIII.
The High Contracting Powers agree them- selves to take, or propose to their respective appropriate law-making bodies, the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present convention.
Articte IX.
The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United’ States of Amer- ica, by and with the advice and consent of ’ the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Maj- esty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at
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Washington as soon as possible and the Con- vention shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall re- main in force ‘for fifteen years, and in the event of neither of the High Contracting Powers having given notification, twelve months before the expiration of said period of fifteen years, of its intention of termin- ating its operation, the Convention shall con- tinue to remain in force for one year and so on from year to year.
In faith whereof, the respective Plenipo- tentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals.
Done at Washington this sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six- teen.
[SEAL] Ropert LANSING. [seAL] Cercrr Sprine Rice. ea Nae
A Note on the Treaty.
The animus of those who secured the treaty with Canada in order to bolster up an unconstitutional law seems evident when we read in the treaty, Article IV, the suggestion that a close season be placed on woodduck. To close the wood- duck season means to put an end tu a promising food-producing industry.
Article VII is probably the most re- markable of all the provisions of the treaty. It provides that permits may be granted to kill the birds protected when they are injurious to agriculture, “but no birds killed under this article shall be shipped, sold or offered for sale.”
The animosity against the sale of de- sirable foods seems to amount to a de- mentia with the few game law enthusiasts who seek to relieve Congress of its law- making duties.
The treaty actually provides for and makes necessary a_ shocking waste of highly desirable food.
Recently wild ducks are reported to have done so much damage to the rice growers of California that they appealed to the State game officers for relief.
By the terms of the treaty. the food birds killed under permits granted to stop the damage to rice must be left on the ground to rot. They can not be “shipped, sold or offered for sale.”
Long we have known that those who originally proposed the migratory bird law are opposed to the sale of game as food. We regret to see the good work
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of State game officers who now encour- age food production upset by turning over the law-making power of Congress to those whose animus is well*displayed in the above quotations from the treaty. We hope if Congress makes a law it may be a sensible one and not simply a grant of the right to make regulations to those who do not seem to know why game van- ishes and how easy it is to make it an abundant and cheap food.
Long Island Quail.
Returning from an extended trip on Long Island the editor of The Game Breeder had the opportunity to inter- view a number of sportsmen who board- ed the train with handsome setters and pointers. All had quail and rabbits, and all but one had ruffed grouse. Those who shot on club grounds had the most game, as might be expected. One man who had been shooting on unposted land said the quail were scarce: he only found two covies but he said he secured sev- eral grouse. No doubt the land was more suitable for the last-named birds. The sportsmen interviewed all said that enough birds were left for re-stocking but some said they would purchase and liberate more birds this year in order to still further improve the shooting.
Considering the fact that all of the sportsmen in New York State who wish to shoot quail must go to Long Island— the quail being on the song bird list elsewhere in the State—we have an ex- cellent exhibit of what can be done where part of the land is preserved by quail clubs with small dues. The clubs keep the shooting open for all and will con- tinue to do so.
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State Game Officers and Prohibition.
There has been a great improvement in the State game departments during the last few years. The departments devote
_much less time to politics than they for- merly did. For the most part they be- lieve that game breeding should be en- couraged and that the departments should represent all of the people and be of great economic importance. With very few exceptions the game wardens do not
go to war to get into
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raid game farmers and seize their stock birds for trivial offences. We believe the departments should be liberally supported and that the officers should receive much larger salaries than they do in most States.
We believe they can conduct their de- partments better if they be not hampered by ever-changing federal regulations and by the efforts of those who wish to place the upland game birds and the woodduck and the woodcock on the song bird list. It must be annoying to capable State
officers to have a few people in New York _
(who have hundreds of thousands of
dollars to spend in getting more game~
laws) insist upon laws preventing field sports and also the production of food.
If a small group of professional game prohibitionists can take over the right to make all the laws relating to wild fowl and can secure laws prohibiting the shoot- ing of every thing else it would seem then the State officers soon will have lit- tle to do and they may expect a diminu-
tion of their revenues from see i-
censes.
A Patriotic Duty.
We regard it as a patriotic duty of all sportsmen, who are rejected for mili- tary duty to go in for “more game,” much more game than ever before. food is highly important. some of it brings high prices should not prevent. those who like to shoot, from producing more than they can eat and from selling a big lot of it. Those who
can afford to eat game are glad to eat
it. They will leave a corresponding amount of beef steak and beef stew. It is clearly the duty of those who can not “the sport pro-
ducing.” Do it now.
NOW IS THE TIME
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Eggs and Stock Birds
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THE WOOD DUCK.
By. the. Editor
The woodduck often is called the sum- mer duck since it breeds throughout the United States and formerly was observed abundantly in summer when the other migratory ducks were in their northern breeding grounds. In some parts of the country the woodduck is called the acorn duck, evidently because it feeds largely on acorns.
Often the woodduck is compared with the beautiful mandarin duck but our bird is far handsomer in my opinion and safe- ly it may be said to be the most beautiful wild fowl in the world. Since it feeds on wild rice and other aquatic plants and on acorns, beechnuts and other mast, its flesh is highly desirable and there are few, if any, better wild food birds in America. The ornithological name of this duck, sponsa, the bride was given it undoubtedly on account of. its beauty, but it has been well said that it is the drake, or groom, which is beautiful, the female being very quietly attired in gray and brown. |
The woodduck easily is bred under con- trol and in fact it is easily domesticated. Large numbers of woodduck have -been bred in Belgium, Holland and other coun- tries from stock procured in America and it is significant that as the birds became scarce in, America, where they are pro- tected by many laws prohibiting the shooting, sale, transportation, etc., of woodduck, the birds became plentiful in countries where they are not so closely ae Prior to the war American breeders were importing many woodduck
- from the countries named and often we.
have pointed out that the money sent abroad for woodduck and other fowls
should be sent to American game farmers.
The woodduck very easily can be made plentiful for food, but laws preventing the killing and sale of these birds for a periods of years evidently will put a stop to all breeding industry.
Many readers of The Game Breeder
now own woodducks. Many ducks are sold at excellent prices. Some readers breed large numbers of woodduck, but if these birds must be put on the song bird list to please the game law enthu- siasts the production of woodducks will cease to grow rapidly, as this industry has grown, and many breeders, no doubt, will cease to rear woodducks. They cer- tainly will not be restored to vast re- gions where they have become extinct; they certainly will not quickly become an abundant food.
. The woodduck is specially mentioned in the treaty with Canada (printed on another page), and the reader will ob- serve that proposition (1) relating to this fowl calls for protection, “by a close season extending over a period of at least five years.”
Intelligent State game officers have fa- vored and encouraged the profitable breeding of woodduck during the past few years with excellent results. Those who seek from Congress the right to make criminal laws have favored a close season on woodduck and they do not seem to be aware that such legislation will put an end to a promising food-produc- ing industry, and that without a vast army of officers it will be impossible to protect the few woodducks not owned by game breeders since the birds frequent small ponds and streams in secluded places where easily they can be shot by those who are not aware that such shoot- ing is prohibited and by those who know there is little danger of their being de- tected.
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The Scarboro Beach Game Farm in Maine is rapidly becoming one of the big game farms of the country. It was with regret that we. were obliged to return from a recent trip into New England without seeing this inter- esting place.
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CHARLES HALLOCK.
Charles Hallock, well known to and loved by most of the older and many of the younger sportsmen, is dead. He had a long and eventful life and contributed much to our sporting literature.
My personal acquaintance with him began some years ago after-the appear- ance of a paper which I wrote for The New York Independent, “The State and the Game,’ which may be said to have launched the “more game” movement. When the article was printed I was in Maine and upon my return I found a
large mail, including a long letter from ©
-Hallock endorsing and praising the arti- * cle. Often I have quoted his concluding sentence, “Truly we need a revolution of thought and a revival of common sense.” Not long afterwards Hallock came to see me and we have since had some pleas- ant meetings, when he was passing through New York. Often he wrote to me as matters of interest occurred to him. Not very long ago he said the more game movement evidently had won out and he was much gratified at the success which he had feared would never come. He referred to his letter in which he said there were mountains of preju- dice and politics to be crossed, that he would endeavor to go over them with the small band. which set out at the start, but they seemed to be impassable.
voices of a million sportsmen, admirers
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Living in. the West ‘and going far- ther west to shoot I did not meet Hal- lock until he was well along in years, but often I have met sportsmen in all parts of the country who said they knew him and all were enthusiastic in their praise. Not long ago when at Waterlily, N. C., Jasper White said: “Everybody knows Hallock and everybody loves him.”
My friend Pond of the Sportsman’s Review knew him much better and much longer than I did. The biographical no- tice is from the Review.
: Dwicut W. HunrTINGTON. —
“Footprints in the Sands of Time.”
When Charles Hallock, M. A., passed into the Great Beyond on December 2, 1917, every sportsman in America suf- fered a keen loss. Here was a man and a sportsman of the highest type, who had devoted his entire life to the advance- ment of clean, healthful sports. The “Dean of American Sportsmen” is an en- viable title given him by the unanimous and friends.
“To know him was to love him,” and no man can be more serviceable to hu- manity than to radiate love.
Charles Hallock, editor, author, nat- uralist and Dean of American Sports- men, was introduced to this world in New York City, March 13, 1834, the son of Gerad and Eliza (Allen) Hallock.
The early part of his life was spent on his uncle’s farm, located in a wilderness of the Green Mountains of Massachu- setts. It was at this place that his youth- ful soul drank in the splendor and beauty of outdoor life which led him to link his arm with mother nature.
He finished the course at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Conn., and then entered Yale. He soon left Yale to enter Amherst. It was during his sophomore year at this college that he began his literary career, when he be- came editor of the college paper, the Scorpion.
The experience gained by editing this paper animated his spirit and soon his taste for literary work dominated his zeal for study and he left college to join
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his father, who was then the active head of the New York Journai of Commerce. Thus he was launched on the beautiful sea as a writer. In time he became the pilot of the New Haven Register, Journal of Commerce, Chronicle and Sentinel, Royal Gazette, sts ohm Courier, the Telegraph and the Humorist. Many arti- cles that appeared in Harper’s Magazine were written by him. Later he became the founder of Forest and Stream. Sev- enteen copyrighted books have been pro- duced from his pen. The various articles he wrote for magazines and daily papers would fill about fifty-five volumes if compiled.
As a poet he deserves more than usual observance, for such poems as ‘“‘An Ode to the Man, ” “New Year's Call,” a paro- dy on “Marco Bozarris,” and the legend of “Kill Devil Hole” claim him as their author.
But he did not allow his love of the pen to confine him to indoor life. Many are the black bass, crappie, salmon and trout that have succumbed to this master of the rod.
It was on these frequent ramblings that he gained his wonderful comprehen- sive knowledge of life that knew no roof other than the heavens. “The Sportsman Gazetteer,” “Our New Alaska,” ‘“Peer- less Alaska” and “The Salmon Fisher” owe their existence to the information and experience gathered on _ these jaunts.
Many a sun will set before there ap- pears another mortal who will carry to his grave the love, the blessing, the good will and the true sportsmanship of Charles Hallock, the nucleus of outdoor sports.—Sportman’s Review.
THE MIGRATORY TREATY BILL.
Alexander Innes Shand, a talented English writer, in his chapter on “Cook- ery of Ducks and Geese,” says: “When Audubon was at St. Louis in 1843 the market there was swamped with both ducks and geese. These geese sold at ten cents apiece; the canvas backs went at a shilling a couple. We have no such good luck with them in our little sea- girt islands where they come from the
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bleak north as birds of passage and have to forage casually for a precarious live- lihood.”
It is significant, however, that the English markets are kept full of wild fowl at moderate prices; that thousands of market gunners are permitted to shoot and trap and market migratory wild fowl and that it is deemed necessary
in the United States to spend millions
of dollars annually in the effort to keep such food out of the markets.
The “‘little sea-girt islands,’ an area which is small indeed when compared with any one of our larger States. The population of the little islands is far greater than many of our larger States; but the people have cheap migratory wild fowl just as the people in America have oysters and fish.
The area of the feeding grounds and waters in America are tremendous when compared with such areas in the “little sea-girt islands.” It cannot be said that the migratory wild fowl which are abundant and cheap in the island markets are reared or bred on preserves. Mr. Shand in the sentence quoted above says, “They come from the bleak north as birds of passage,” just as the migratory fowl come to the United States from the north.
.We think before the United States makes the American wild fowl a “football of politics” it would be well to have a Congressional investigation of the entire subject. In the meantime the people will get some food in the markets which are open.
The creation of a new army of game officers may seem to be good politics but we believe it would be wise to defer the migratory bird treaty bill until Congress can be advised why it is that wild ducks and wild geese should be removed from the markets of Washington and other cities, which still permit the sale of such food, when the food always is abundant and cheap in foreign markets.
The State Department easily can pro- cure the figures showing the prices in the markets of the “little sea-girt islands.” There are plenty of naturalists in Amer- ica who should be able to explain why it is that the migratory fowl can be safely
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taken by thousands of market gunners using big guns and traps in England where the area frequented by migratory fowl is small and why the sale of the food should be prohibited in America.
Those who were asked to support the migratory bird bill were told that it was intended to stop the shooting of wild ducks in the spring and to stop the shoot- ing of- migratory song birds at all times. This kind of legislation properly placed in the statute books where all can find it is different from what Congress is asked to enact.
As we read the bill it grants to certain people the right to prevent the sale and shipping of game, and since many fowl which are descended from the migratory birds are now owned by American breed- ers who no doubt will. be arrested and fined or imprisoned for selling and ship- ping game, we insist that the bill be re- written so that all may know what is criminal and what is not criminal before it is enacted.
It is a remarkable grant that Congress is asked to make to certain people who have shown a decided hostility to the pro- duction of game by industry. The most prominent advocate of the pending meas- ure recently tried to put the game breed- ers on Long Island, N. Y., out of busi- ness, and is reported to have expended a large sum of money in the effort. Why should such people be granted the right to make criminal laws and publish them in bulletins which undoubtedly will affect those who are engaged in what has re: cently been made a legal food producing industry by amendments to State laws?
It is claimed that the wild fowl are abundant just now in America because Congress passed a law which has been declared unconstitutional in several States; which never has been executed and which has been treated with con- tempt or possibly never has been heard of on many marshes.
The present increase in the numbers of our wild fowl is largely due to the fact that thousands of Canadian sportsmen who formerly shot big bags of fowl daily during the season are not ‘shooting ducks. The stopping of spring shooting by the
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Canadian Provinces and by the Northern
' States where some ducks breed has re- - sulted undoubtedly in an increase in the number of the fowl.
Thousands of wild ducks also have been bred by sporting and commercial breeders during the past few years, and some of these which are bred in the North have been shot as far south as North Carolina.
We are confident it will not be neces- sary to turn over the crime making power of Congress to the people who seek to exercise it if the game breeding’ industry
can be encouraged in all of the States, as*-
it now is in many, and we certainly be- lieve and insist that before the present bill is enacted if it must be in the interest of politics, it should be amended so as to read that nothing in the act shall apply
to game owned by game breeders until it -
becomes migratory and escapes and de- parts from the game farms where it has been produced by industry. —
The game breeders have had some dis- agreeable experiences with State officers in States where the game has been a foot- bali of politics. They have reason to fear what will happen if those who have shown
a decided hostility to their food produc-_
ing industry have the right to appoint ir- responsible officers with the powers of
United States marshals and the right to ”
search without warrant food producing plants conducted under State licenses. Tame ducks, barnyard fowl, have been seized and taken from a breeder because he had them before he applied for a li- cense when he offered to pay because his
ducks were descendants from wild birds. -
This method of game saving which it is now proposed to make national has not kept the markets full of desirable foods. We insist again that licensed food pro-
ducers should for their cwn safety and — for the good of the people be excepted —
from the provisions of this most extra- ordinary bill before it becomes a law if it must.
A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION.
Before Congress proceeds to enact the Migratory Bird Bill we respectfully re- quest that it call for a report from the Bureau of Animal Industry as to the
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number of pheasants, wild ducks, quail, wild turkeys and other game birds and the number of deer, elk, antelope, and other game animals produced by indus- try by game breeders during the last two years, and the number of stock animals now owned by breeders.
We suggest that the Bureau of Ani- mal Industry is the proper bureau to secure this information just as the Bu- reau of Biological Survey would be the proper bureau to report the number of game laws enacted during the past two years, since it has become a game law producing department and has the so- called game law experts. .
We respectfully ask the Congress to call on this last named game law bureau for a report as to the number of game laws made and amended by the States during the last five years and how many arrests, fines and jail sentences have re- sulted from the game laws, including arrests of food producers on account of their industry. These easily can be com- piled from State reports in the Bureau of Biological Survey.
The Game Breeder charges that the United States has been made the biggest crime producing country in the world; that this is largely due to the game laws; that there have been many thousands of arrests due to the game laws; much un- necessary distress and much scandalous grafting for offences which are devoid of any moral turpitude and which are not crimes in any country where the people have very cheap game during long open seasons. Much of this game is migra- tory and it is taken by wild fowlers or market gunners just as fishermen take fish without fear of arrest.
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OUTINGS AND INNINGS. Ornithological.
Mother was out, Sister Sue was put- ting on her best blouse, so six-year-old Bob had to entertain Sue’s young man.
As is the way with his kind, he began to ply the unfortunate caller with ques- tions.
“Mr. Brown,” he began, “what is a popinjay?”.
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“Why — eh — a popinjay is a — eh — vain bird.”
“Are you a bird, Mr. Brown?”
“No, of course not.” &
“Well, that’s funny. Mother said you were a popinjay, and father said there was no doubt about your being a jay, and Sue said there didn’t seem much chance of your poppin’, and now you say you aren’t a bird at all!”
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Me’ow Jones the Refugee Pilgrim Cat.
In a new book with the above title by Eduard Branch Lyman Me’ow gives the following epitome of his tale in a rhyme which heads chapter |:
I’m the refugee Belgian cat;
I’m silky and purry and fat;
Me’ow is my name,
And I’m glad that I came;
But I wish the bad War Man would Scat.
Me’ow in the end of the book asks every one to think of his home country, his dear, brave King and Queen, and “Princess Goldie Fur,” which is the name he gives the little Belgian Princess.
Another Case of Spurlos Versenkt.
We are very much afraid that before long now there are going to be some more neighbors’ cat’s kittens that will have to be spurlos versenkt, as they say in Swed- ish diplomatic circles——From the Ohio State Journal.
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An Exchange of Courtesies.
“You farmers buy a good many gold bricks, eh?”
“Yes, and you city fellows buy a good deal of swamp land. I guess things are about even.”—From the Milwaukee Sen- tinel. ;
[The swamp lands are found to be worth much more than the kind of gold bricks re- ferred to when the swamps are utilized by breeders of wild ducks. Some duck swamps now are worth more than corn fields.—Editor Game Breeder. |]
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Depends on Circumstances.
“What’s that building yonder?”
“Well,” said the farmer, “if Ll finda tenant for it, it’s a bungalow. If I don't, it’s a barn.””—From the Pittsburgh Post.
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[We have. shot with the “Nimrod Red- Man” and dodged some of them in the good old days long ago.—Editor.]
How long did the white sportsman, pot-hunters, gunners and game-hogs take to loot this wilderness, Mr. Biographer . of Wild Life?
[Not very long. It is time to drop the game law industry and go in for “more game.”— Editor. ] .
Very short period we learn and only too late. Now we have to substitute the civilized man’s orderly semi-domestic game-preserve if we want to pose as hunters great or small.
[Not at all, we have preserves where game is bred wild in states which have abandoned some “fool laws.”—Editor.]
It may be foolish to grow too senti- mental about this romantic past period,
[Many grieve over past’ multitudes who do nothing to preserve what is left—Editor.] but let’s beware of brute character with- out any sentiment.
[Some of our most sentimental friends have plenty of game and shoot little or none— Editor. ] :
Only the splendid sentiment of good people will prevent the vicious destruc- tive element from killing off everything that runs and flies free.
[At this point you might cuss the game pro- hibition a little. We belong to the “good people” class and where the laws permit such industry we advocate the preservation of American game under conditions which so closely resemble the good old days that you would be pleased with the restoration could you see some of the places. When you come to New York we will show you how it is done. We are just now starting a place of this kind and will send all the game to hos- pitals.—Editor. ]
Just to illustrate here is my personal experience: The past few seasons my folks and neighbors produced a fine lot of pheasants (State furnished stock). Unfortunately an open season was on lately. The licensed and untettered hunt- ers fairly swarmed the fields. To-day not a single bird or specimen can be found.
[You need a gamekeeper. Let us send you one.— Editor. ]
Let me state that I advocated rearing these birds in a semi-wild way, which proved highly successful.
[Bully for you.—Editor.]
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‘shot on the same ground. The reason whi
One hyphenated game-hog hero — bragged on his getting four. Four hens — at that, mind you. | he — a
[We know a man who took 30 just outside of ae fence. We congratulated him.—Edi- tor. J. :
The greatest outrage to game propa- gation in Ohio is the unfortunate open. season on pheasants. a
[We would advise’ an end to propagation — if there can be no open season.—Editor. |
And if we continue the free open sea- sons even the prolific cottontail will be- come scarce. ;
[Why not put cottontail on the song bird, list? This will tend to save the quail as a singer.—Editor. ] : q
_I say close the season entirely, let it up to the landowner to get proper reve- | nue on certain game-food animals, «and if the gunner or hunter isn’t of a dis- — position and character to pay a fee to — cover the cost of such production why, — dang him, let him do without.
(There ean be no harm in letting him shoot
on unposted land where no game breeding is carried on or on public water.—Editor.]
It is the writer’s intention to own or control an ideal wilderness game-farm, ~ but no free lance gunner will be toler- — ated to even have a look-in, unless he is — handcuffed to a guard. I have no faith in public-owned game farms;,the poli- — tician sportsman always manages to get there first.
[You should invite many people to shoot.— Editor.] ,
Yes, indeed, I agree with you that the only hope is in maintaining game farms, ~ but the game will beconie sort of do-— mesticated like unto the over-size mal- lard ducks your articles so freely com- ment on. ; q
[Don’t believe this for a minute. We know where it is perfectly safe to shoot several
thousand quail in a season as wild as any quail ever were and true wild turkeys are
this is so is the farmers and sportsmen work together. We know one place where we ad- vised thinning the quail out after 2,000 had been shot because there was danger of an overabundance.
cepting that the birds killed in the thinning process could not be sold. They were wasted. The reason we have many over- sized ducks is the laws prohibit the taking of breeding stock.—Editor. ]
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‘Sports like Kaiser Wilhelm and the heroic (?) chinless Crown Prince, the champion game-hogs of the world, en- joy that kind of hunting. White man, the great civilizer, cannot produce a wi!- derness nor a real forest unless he lets it entirely alone.
The wilderness wants none of his Kultur.
Toms KUuERTz, Conservationist.
[This appeal to prejudice indicates that you don’t know what is going on in America. Let us take you to a club quite near New York, where sportsmen for $15 per year shoot wild quail and rabbits. The farmers are well pleased to have them do so because they pay fcr the use of the land. If you will glance at the portrait of a fine old English -wild- fowler, or market gunner, in my book, “Our Wold Fowl and Waders,”’ you will see the genial face of a poor but freeman who sup- ports his family by shooting wild ducks in a land where wild fowlers have as much freedom as the sea fisherman, who provides the codfish balls you no doubt have for breakfast, has.
The Game Breeder seems often to be mis- understood as often it is misrepresented. We favor the production and sale of game for food on game farms and preserves because, as you admit, no state game department safely can permit any shooting by a vast army of guns if there be no production.
Our preference in the matter of shooting is for wild bred game, quail and grouse es- pecially. We prefer.the shooting of wild ducks on public waters to the shooting of ducks reared on game farms. The reason why the last named are not as good as they should be is that restrictive laws prevent the taking of birds for breeding purposes.
We would like to have you visit some of the quail clubs in which we are interested. You would never imagine you were on a game farm or preserve. In some places, however. the quail are fully ‘as abundant, year after year, as they shouldbe. This is because they
are properly looked after and-kept sufficiently.
plentiful to afford a lot of shooting and a lot of food. Freedom would seem to require, however, that those who want an abundance of pheasants and ducks on places where there is no game should have the birds and shoot and eat and sell them. The fact that they will soon send cheap food to market is a suff- cient excuse to grant them the right to pro- duce it without danger of being .arrested. There are people who find it pays to chop off the heads of chickens and tame ducks raised in barnyards and to send the food to market. To be consistent you should berate these people as. “fowl-hogs” if they have many and denounce them for the slaughter. We have opposed the killing of game in this fashion, “otherwise than by shooting,” as some “fool laws” have it, because we believe
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the incentivé to produce the food abundantly is thus destroyed and the incentive to health giving exercise in the country also is de- stroyed. We have had many good days with the buffalo on the Western plains when we kept an eye out for the noble Red Man to- whom you refer, in order to:see that he did not pot us while we were potting the bison. We have had many good days on the prairie
_with the grouse and many good days in Ohio
with the quail and we know full well that the times have changed. No one seems to want buffaloes on the farms. There are plenty for sale to fully satisfy the demand. Still the “where are the buffalo” people con- tinue to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in the effort to save the game by se- curing a few more game laws.
We are perfectly fair. We will not oppose a thousand more laws if they can be so writ- ten as to make it appear that nothing in the proposed enactments shall apply to game pro- duced wild or tame by industry, so long as it remains within the boundaries of the farms owned or leased by the producers. We are opposed to enactments which prohibit a food producing industry.
We have old fashioned ideas about sport. We prefer to go out, as we do, and ramble over waste lands and marshes which are un- posted and on farms where we can shoot with the permission of their owners. We _ are fully aware that if we are to shoot without exterminating the game it must be looked after properly; and the reason why we can go out and shoot quail quite near New York is that many clubs with small dues keep some quail for breeding purposes. We shall go out next Friday and shoot quail on unposted land where the birds are not preserved by any one and the reason they are there is we liberated a good lot of quail a few years ago on a club ground where they were , protected, The shooting of many thousands of pheasants on the big places produces some shooting on places which are not posted. A man told us he was prejudiced against us for posting some land where a big lot of pheasants later were shot. He had been in the habit of ex-
.terminating the quail on this land and only
four’ were left by actual count. The first sea- son after we started he shot 30 pheasants outside of our fence and said he had not found so many quail in 20 years as he found in places quite near his house which are oper to the public. It so happened the quail bred largely outside of our ground. Possibly we had too many pheasants.
Your prejudice against shooting hand reared game is based on an ignorance of the subject. The shooting at pheasants and ducks passing overhead is far more difficult than the shooting of quail over dogs and the shooting of ducks settling to decoys are. We pro- duced one year 2,500 ducks about an artificial pond. Many guns shot safely at this place which relieved the shooting on public waters to the extent of the number of guns en- gaged—about an hundred.
eae THE GAME BREEDER
The “more game” movement is based on sound principles. It stands a close inspec- tion from a business and legal point of view. It is good business and it should not be criminal to produce food on a farm. The owner should kill it “otherwise than by shoot- ing” if he wants to, but the laws should not compel such a performance. He should breed it wild under natural conditions if he wishes to do so. All real naturalists have endorsed the “more game” movement. All real sports- men quickly adopt it when they understand it and in so doing they provide sport for them- selves and for others and food for the people to eat.
The times have changed since we used to shoot quail in abundance in Ohio without any
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objection. The farmers who see that such work means extermination are right in call- ing a halt. It is up to the sportsmen to deal fairly with the land owners; to produce be- fore they destroy and the result where such
work is done is to keep the game plentiful in a’
wild state or semi-wild as the owner may prefer. Laws! Laws! Laws! More’ laws! produce vast revenues for those engaged i in the game law industry. The “more game” move- ment has produced a vast amount of game far more than you would believe without ex- tending your ramble beyond the places where you have seen much. The reason you only see pheasants is your laws have destroyed the opportunity to produce or shoot better game.
GAME FARM
‘SIDWAY GRAND an, ERIE CoO.,
N. Y.
Pheasant and Mallard Eggs for Spring delivery from extra fine, healthy non-related birds.
My birds are raised for my own shooting and are very strong on the wing.
Member of The Game Guild.
SANDANONA
Member American Game Breeders See
PHEASANTRY
Millbrook, Dutchess Co., New York —
We are the New York State Agents for Mclilhenny’s Pheasant and Duck Feeds
THE BEST AND LOWEST PRICED GAME FOOD ON THE MARKET
Write for Sample and Prices
Get Results and CUT DOWN AT ONCE Your Feed Bill
Land for Game Preserve and Country House Near New York For Sale.
About three hundred acres on the Mianus River in Greenwich, Conn., may be purchased
at present for one thousand dollars per acre.
Suitable for a magnificent country house seti, with surrounding forest like that of English estates. newly made lake.of several acres on the place.
A mile of beautiful trout stream and a Owner will not divide the tract. Its peculiar
value rests in the combination of forest, cliffs and stream in a tract of this size so near to New York and to the social centers of Greenwich and Stamford.
Deer and many other wild animals and, birds now on the place.
Address Advertising Department, The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York City
In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters:
“Yours for More Game.”
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PHEASANT EGGS
—_AND——
ONE DAY OLD PHEASANTS
For Spring and Summer Delivery
‘Write for Prices
| THE CEDARS A. BRADLEY OSSINING (R. F. D.), N. Y.
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Widgeon Grass, Red-Head Grass, Chara and other foods which attract water fowl. We have the best duck foods which will attract and hold the game and which impart the finest flavor to the flesh. ‘We plan and arrange the plantings suitable to all waters.
GOOD SHOOTING
lam prepared to entertain a number of sportsmen who wish to shoot wild geese, Canvasback and other wild ducks and quail, snipe, etc. Only small parties can be properly looked after. Appoint- ments to trv the shooting and learn about the wild duck foods are made by correspondence.
J. B. WHITE WATERLILY, CURRITUCK SOUND, NORTH CAROLINA
Member of THE GAME GUILD
Our Wild Fowl and Waders
Practical Book on Duck Breeding for Sport and Profit
$2.00 The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., N. Y. C.
100 Million Dollars Worth of Rabbits
were produced in France in 1914; In America we have but 30,000 people engaged in raising rabbits ; and on account of the immense demand und the big proaty to be made, tive tpeed : thousand people could make immense profits rais- Established 1860 Telephone 4 in ing Been atch EhensB Giants, New Zealane P 369) Spring eds, etc, e tell you all about it as well as in- formation about Cavies. Pigeons, Bantams, Bees, FRE D SAUTE R
Canaries, etc., in The National Fancier & Breeders
Magazine, published monthly and only $1 per Leading Taxidermist of America
year. Send NOW and we will give you a copy of :
our Rabbit Book FREE, or send $1.25 and also 42 Bleecker Street New York City
get our Pigeon Book and begin to make money.
Sample copy 1oc, Address Corner Lafayette Street. Subway Station at the Door. The National Fancier & Breeders Magazine Specialist in All Branches of Taxidermy
335 S. East Avenue Oak Park, Illinois Write for Illustrated Catalogue
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124 Siete THE GAME BREEDER ... ~ .. .-.- -. 3 2.—
Wild Mallard Ducks" and Ringneck Pheasants
WRITE FOR PRICES
Scarboro Beach Game Farm
oR. E. BULLOCK, Manager
SCARBORO, - MAINE
Member of the Game Guild
We Furnish Eggs in Season
GAME WANTED.
We can use. unlimited quantities of Venison, Pheasants and Mallard Ducks raised on licensed preserves which can be sold in New York State throughout the year, but coming from points outside of New York State Preserves must also have the New York State License in order to be~ permitted to ship in this state and be sold here. Let us hear from you.
HOUSE OF A. SILZ 414-420 West 14th St., NEW YORK CITY
Cable Address ‘ Telephone “Silz’ New. York Chelsea 4900
PROFITS IN FUR FARMING
Learn about the wonderful Black Fox Industry which has proven so profitable
to breeders. U I A N T ED Read the Black Fox Magazine, the only Q A L ) )
paper of its kind in the world.
SAMPLE COPY FREE. -- Bob White Quail for Subscription $1.50 per year. Breeding Purposes THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY
15 Whitehall Street, New York 150 Nassau Street, New York
~ \ In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: ‘“Yours for More Game.”
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SANDANONA PHEASANTRY
MILLBROOK
Dutchess Co. New York Ringneck Pheasants for Fall Delivery. Write for Prices and Information.
P. O. Box 101.
If You Want Fertile Eggs Next Spring BUY NOW
We offer Silver, Golden, Ringneck, Formosan, Lady Amherst, China, White, Mongolian, Reeves, Swin- hoe, Versicolor, Elliott, Impeyan, Soemmer- ring, Machurian Eared, Black Throated Golden, Lineated, Peacock, Melanotus and Prince of Wales. Also all five varieties of peafowl. Wild Turkey, Japanese Silkies and Longtails, Crane, Swan, Mandarin, Mallard, Black, For- mosan Teal and other varieties of Duck. Crested, Ring and other varieties of doves. Deer, Jack Rabbits. .
Send fifty cents in stamps for _colortype catalogue.
CHILES & COMPANY MT. STERLING KENTUCKY
Member of The Game Guild Member of The American Game Breeders Society
COPIES OF THE GAME BREEDER WANTED.
We have a number of requests for back numbers of The Game Breeder from people who wish to bind the volumes and preserve a complete record of the More Game Move- ment.
Weill pay 20c each for a number of copies of the following issues in good condition :
1914—May, July and December. 1915— May. 1916—January.
We wish to procure 10 or more copies of each issue named above. Readers who can fur- nish these copies will please send a post card to The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York
Member of The Game Guild
Member of American Game Breeders Society
Attract The Ducks With Wild Rice =
+yn Vcd 7 It will make any lake, stream or pond Cy be. their feeding and breeding ground. It is fh iy their natural food. U]
. . You can have large beds of Wild Rice growing next season. Now is the time to
Ae" y plant—through the ice. & Wild Rice is my specialty. Germination
assured by special damp storage process. My Rs-< i} © methods and seeds used by leading game clubs >3S@Q_ and private preserves.
— Write Today for Prices and Information
CLYDE B. TERRELL
Naturalist Dept. P-16 Oshkosh, Wis. Member of The Game Guild
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Quail and all other game birds which are to be used for propagation purposes should be purchased long before the breeding season opens. Otherwise they will not breed.
Mexican quail should be paired and ready for breeding by the end of March or early in April. It is, in our opinion, pure nonsense to move birds at this time.
ln writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Announcements inserted under this head in small type for 3 cents per word. If displayed in heavy type, 5 cents per word. No advertisement accepted for less than 30 cents. Postage stamps accepted in payment. ;
THE GAME BREEDER
150 Nassau Street
New York City
LIVE GAME
FORZSALE—Ringneck Pheasants, two years old. These are my breeding stock birds and are pinioned. $5.00 M. R. CHEESMAN, R. F. D. No. 3, Murray,
per pair. Utah.
SILVER, GOLDEN AND RINGNECK PHEASANTS Eggsinseason. J. M. SATTLER, Antigo, Wis. it
WILD TURKEYS—For prices see display advertisement in this issue. W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Bucks County, Pa.
TWO WILD CANADIAN GANDERS-—3 years old, un-
mated, Grand Large Birds. $10.00 each or will exchange one for a goosesameage. WILLKT RANDELL, North Creek, N. Y. : a ‘ ;
WANTED—JAPANESE, VERSICOLOR AND Elliotts. MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK CO., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York,
at
PHEASANTS, BANTAMS, PIGEONS, RABBITS, MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK CO., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York. at
300 RINGNECK PHEASANTS — ALL FINE, THIS year’sbirds. Forsaleasawholeorinsmall lots. Address LURAY ORCHARD COMPANY, Luray, Virginia.’ 2t
WE ARE BREEDERS OF PURE BRED CHINESE
Ringneck Pheasants and numerous fancy varieties. Send for our price list of pheasants, land and water game birds, deer, elk, and fur bearing animals, AMERICAN GAME ASSOCIATION, Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado, 3t
' SIBERIAN FUR FARM, HAMILTON, CANADA;
breeds Foxes, Martin, Mink, Skunks, Wild Geese, Ducks,
Pheasants and Black Siberian Hares. Send 25 cents for Booklet on the latter.
PURE BRED WILD WATERFOWL AT FOLLOW. ing prices: Mallards, $3.75 per pair. Pintails, $3 25 per pair. Green Wing Teal, $5.00 per pair. Blue Wing Teal, 3.75 per pair. Also’ redheads, Gadwalls, Widgeons, anvasbacks, Spoonbills, at reasonable prices, for propa- gating and scientific purposes. GEORGE J. KLEIN. Ellinwood, Kansas.
FIVE MONTHS OLD PET BLACK BEAR, $75. For sale. JOHN W. TALBOT, South Bend, Indiana. at
WILD MALLARD DUCKS—DR. HEBER BISHOP,
of Boston, Mass., will dispose of some of his pure bred Mallards at $4.00 per pair. These birds are from his estate at Clearwater Lake, Farmington, Maine. Address, Boston, Mass.
HOYT’S CALIFORNIA PHEASANTRY, PRICELIST. FRED D., HOYT, Hayward, California,
' GRAY STAR PHEASANTRY
Breeder of all kinds of pheasants. Eggs in season. Pure brand, strong, healthy birds for sale. GIFFORD GRAY, 21 Ward St., Orange, N. J.
FOR SALE—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the pheasant family. Pamphlet with order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren .Co., New Jersey. : (zot)
* PHEASANTS AND WILD TURKEYS
For Sale—2s50 pinioned Ringneck hens, 50 cocks, tg15 birds, extra fine for breeders, immeuiate deliverv. | tooo 1917 hens full wing or pinioned, 1500 1917 cocks full wing or pinioned. xoo wild turkeys, October de- | livery. These birds are reared on virgin soil and are vigorous a d healthy. PORTAGE HEIGHTS | GAME FARM, Akron, Ohiot
QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND
other animals. See display advertisement in this issue. WM. J. MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas- antry and Game Park. A
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS—
A limited number for sale now—the surest way to start breeding this species. We are the oldest and largest breeders of Canadas in this country. Black and White Swans,Wild Ducks, etc., forsale. WHEALTON WATER FOWL FARMS, Chincoteague Island. Va.
FOR SALE—GOLDEN PHEASANTS, YOUNG
and also full plumaged, pure, healthy, of non-related stock. Also some pure Mongolian males. . WwW. SEIGLER, Bangor, Wis. Member of The Game Guild.
4000 PHEASANT EGGS—WE ARE NOW READY TO book your orders for any part of the above number of PURE BRED CHINESE RiINGNECK AND MONGO- LIAN PHEASANTS EGGS for April, May, June and July delivery. Place your orders now. You know you will want them so why not place your order now and save the $s that you will spend telegraphing for them and giveit to the Game Guild and help the good work along, instead of helping the Telegraph Co. First come, first served ; place your orders early. WESTERN WASHINGTON PHEAS- ANT BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, A. J. Park, Sec’y, 111 Columbia St., Seattle, Washington. Member of the Game Guild. : 4t
SIXTY VARIETIES THOROUGHBRED POULTRY, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Guineas, Pheasants, Peafowl, Dogs. (Forty varieties Bantams.) Satisfaction guaranteed. F. C. WILBERT, Naturalist, Grand Rapids, ore . t
BELGIAN HARES AND FLEMISH GIANTS FOR sale. Ai stock. C. W. DIXON, 8612 Morgan Street, Chicago, Ill. 1t
PHEASANTS—BREEDING STOCK AND EGGS FOR
sale, Ringnecks pinioned, $7.00 per pair, $9.00 per trio. Goldens and Silvers $7.50 per pair. Eggs according to quantity during theseason, Orders should be booked now. Address DAISY FARM or H. C. CUTTING, San Lorenzo, California. It
LIVE GAME WANTED
5 VARIETIES OF PHEASANTS_WILD MALLARDS, WILD GEESE AND GAME. FOURTEEN VARIE- TIES OF STANDARD POULTRY, INCLUDING TURKEYS. ALSO ELK, LIST FREE. G. H. HARRIS, TAYLORVILLE, ILL, at
In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.” ;
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WANTED—BLACK SKUNK, MINK, AND OTHER
fur bearing animals, also different varieties of pheas- ants, and game birds. Quote prices and full description, ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Littleton, Colorado. 2t
RAHLMAN’S PHEASANT AND GAME. FARM. Prices on application. Santa Ana, Cal.
PHEASANTS WANTED.
| Between two and three hundred field grown young ‘ringnecks for breeding purposes. In application ' particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and j cocks and hens separately in such quantity for Fall ,or Winter delivery. Address A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX,
Pied Peafowl, Soemmerring, Cheer, Hoki and German Peacock Pheasants, Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels. Also Swinhoes; state price and number. R. A. CHILES & CO., Mt. Sterling, Ky.
FOODS
WILD DUCKS’ NATURAL FOODS Will attract
them. These foods collected, examinations made, plant- ings planned and superintenaed. Write for free infor- mation. CLYDE B TERRELL, Specialist on the Natural Foods of Wild Ducks, Dept. Pi, Oshkosh, Wis.
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild duck food plants, and seed, Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Wiigeon grass, Red. head grass, Chara and other kinds.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres of water marshes where these, the best of duck foods, will grow and hold the game. Write and learn how to do it, WHITE’S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. Currituck Sound, :
ACORNS
An excellent food for deer, pheasants and wild ducks. I can supply acorns by the bushel or in large lors. Write for prices, including shipping charges. W. R. McLEAN, R.'F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina.
BOOKS
BOOKS—*x Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Ginseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. By A. R. Harding. Price 60 cents each. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“LUMINOUS BODIES,” A VERY INTERESTING
and instructive volume, by Charles Hallock, Price, $1.00. Address: Sportsmen’s Review Publishing Co., 15 W. Sixth St.. Cincinnati, O.
“QUR BIG GAME,’ BY D. W. HUNTINGTON,
cntains portraits and descriptions of all American big game animals. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
‘OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS,” BY D. W.
Huntington. A practical book on wild duck breeding for ‘sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“OUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D. W. HUNT-
ington, contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in color. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York.
GAMEKEEPERS
GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED | American game breeder with a 15 year experience wishes to raise sooo ringnecks for a private party or State, and having an incubator and brooder plant, Apply to THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N.Y.
POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad, Expert on rearing Pheasant, Quail, Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man- agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of tield and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trapper of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager. J, H. W., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR
poultry farm, to finish my experiments in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent ; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex day old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not : if fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer, demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game, 20 years’ experience in America and Europe. S. HERBERT, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St. New York. /
TO eeSSSsSssSSSSSSSSSSSSSsSSSSe
WANTED SITUATION—A GAMEKEEPER FAMIL.-
iar with pheasant and poultry rearing, I have also had experience in general farming and can plan the planting for game. BRUCE LANE, care of Game Breeder. 150 Nassau St., New York, a Gt
HEAD GAMEKEEPER—WANTED BY A THOR-
ough experienced man in raising all kinds of wing game, wildfowl, turkeys, etc., on a large scale, and the Management of very large game preserves both in Eng- land and America, One that can keep down vermin and show sport. Expert poultry man, understands incubators brooders, etc., and preparing birds for exhibition ; raised over 3000 pheasants this year. Apply to JOHN BRETT 289 Crosby St., Akron, Ohio, 10
GAMEKEEPER.— SITUATION WANTED.—I can
furnish good English and American references. Thoroughly understand all the duties of a Game- keeper; can rear thousands of birds, and train dogs, &c. I understand trapping and the control of vermin, and wish to get a place now so I can prepare it for breeding on a large scale next spring. Address J. H., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
TO RAISE GAME. Wanted a partner to raise game on a sea island, A pleasant resort during the Winter. Write to the Owner, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York
RINGNECKED PHEASANTS — Three fine trios’
breeders, 2 years old, $15.00 per trio. A. E, BEYER, Sherkston, Ontario, Canada.
200 PHEASANTS WANTED -WILL TAKE EQUAL
number of cocks and hens. Send prices and age ot birds. R. A. MAXWELL, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
RINGNECK PHEASANTS, $5.00 A PAIR. GOLDENS $10.00 a pair. Guaranteed strong and in the pink of con- dition for Spring breeding, Order now as I havea limited supply of birds. LILLIAN E, GALLUP, 2209 Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska. =
REGISTERED AND PEDIGREED BLACK FOXES RUGGED PUPS BORN IN NATURAL CONDITIONS ON MOUNTAIN RANCH. GUARANTEED TO BREED. EVERY ONE OF OUR EIGHT FEMALES WHELPED THIS SPRING. WRITE FOR RECORDS. BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH, ONAWA. MAINE.
“THE RANCH BRED FOX." THE BEST BOOK ublished on Fox farming. Tells all aboutthis wonderful industry. Price 2sc, postpaid. THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE, 15 Whitehall St., New York,
ee In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “‘Yours for More Game.”
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AIREDALE TERRIERS <i
Most Popular Dog to-day because of sterling merit, IDEAL FOR POULTRYMAN, guards fas kilis os, skunks. INDISPENSABLEIN ORCHARD. PEERLESS WATCH DOG for home. family, stock. Easy keeper. SPLENDID PLAYMATE forchildren. ABSOTUTELY FEAR- LESS (used by Allies in trenches), faithful, highly intelligent, a “one man” dog. HIGHLY PROFITABLE,
good bitch earns upward $200 yearly, pups easily reared, readily sold Puppies, grown dogs, bred bitch, from FINEST AIREDALE BLOOD IN WORLD, pedigreed, registered, certified. ATSTUD, Havelock Goldsmith, magnificent imported son internationally famous €h. Crompton Oorahg, fee $15; express bitches to Weston, N. J. Safe delivery, honorable dealing, satisfaction guaranteed. Booklet and references on request,
VIBERT KENNEL, Box 11a, Weston, N. J.
BREEDERS’ CARDS
LIVE GAME, ELK, DEER, WILD
Turkeys, Quail, Pheasants, Ducks, and all other game. Eggs in season. See space advertise- ment.
W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Pa. Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS, PIGEONS AND EGGS.
Pheasants, Amherst, Silver, Gold- en, Reeves, Mongolian, Swinhoe, Versicolor, Ringnecks, Cochin Bantams, White King Pigeons. Eggs in Season. 4
BLUE RIBBON POULTRY AND PHEASANT FARM
Davenport Neck, Phone 655, New Rochelle, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild.
REGISTERED BLACK FOXES, TROUT & HARES. Rugged pups, bred on highest ranchin America. 1917 Breeding Record. 8 litters from 8 females. Also Mountain Brook Trout. Milch Goats. Belgium and Flemish Hares.
BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN
FOX RANCH Onawa - Maine Member of the Game Guild. FOR SALE. e Pheasant Eggs in Season. Is; Everything in the Pheasant
==—=== family. {v j Pamphlet with order FREE, BUCKWOOD PHEASANTRIES Dunfield, Warren County New Jersey
MALLARDS AND BLACK DUCKS.
Guaranteed Pure Bred Wild Ducks. StrongestFlyers. Mal- lards: drakes, $4.00 each. Black drakes, $5.00 each. Ducks, $3.50 each. Eggs in season. 15 Mallard eggs, $4.00, 100 eags $25. 15 Black Duck eggs, $6.00, 100 eggs, $35.
F. B. DUSETTE,
‘Bad Axe, Michigan. Member of the Game Guild. Do not write for prices or infor- mation. Send check. If birds do not please you
return them and your money will be returned at once.
BOOK ON
DOG DISEASES And How to Feed
Mailed free to any address by the Author
H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc. Dog Remedies | 118 West 31st Street, New York
BREEDER OF FANCY PHEASANTS Eggsinseason Ambhersts, Silver, 5 Golden, Versicolor, Mongolian, Reeves, Ringnecks, Manchurian, Elliott, Swinhoe, Impeyan, Mela- notus, Soemmering.
GRAY’S GOLDEN % POULTRY FARM Gifford Gray, Orange, New Jersey. Member of the Game DR. FRANK KENT Importer Bob White Quail San Antonio, Texas.
Book your orders now for early Fall and Spring delivery. Bank references.
Member of the Game Guild.
DOGS
' CHESAPEAKE PUPPIES For Sale.—Four Chesapeake puppies just weaned, Two dogs and two bitches, Address GEORGE B. MOORE, Flanders, Long Island. :
POINTERS, SETTERS, BEAGLES AND RETRIEVERS.
Thoroughly broken Pointers, Setters, Beagles and Retrievers for sale. Also thoroughbred registered Chesapeake puppies. Dogs boarded and trained.
Telephone 38M, Central Islip.
THE HAWTHORNE KENNELS, Central Islip, Long Island, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild.
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, of Berry, Ky.,
offer forsale setters and pointers, fox and cat hounds, wolf and deer hounds. Coon and opossum hounds, var- mint and rabbit hounds, bear and lion hounds, also Aire- dale terriers. All dogs shipped on trial, purchaser to judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or money re- funded. Sixty page, highly illustrated, instructive and interesting catalogue for ten cents in stamps or coin.
AIREDALE TERRIERS. The genuine one-man dog, Pedigreed, registered pups. Males $25.00. Females,
$15.00. Guaranteed Satisfactory, L. E. GALLUP, 2209 ' Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska, ;
Pee Uae ve et 0 ams RY WO AA MR Esse NST nN A ee UR oe oe es A in writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
Anyone Can Hatch Pheasant Chicks, But it Takes Experience to Rear Them Successfully
Do You Know the Value of
PSE RAITT’S
‘PHEASANT MEALS Nos. 5 and 12
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CHICGRAIN
These foods are used by the leading Game Breeders throughout the world and there is nothing on the market that can take their place.
If your dealer cannot supply you, write to us for prices and further particulars.
Send 2c stamp for “ Dog Culture,” 10c for “ Poultry Culture,” and 25c for “ Pheasant Culture.”
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED
NEWARK, N.J. SAN FRANCISCO’ ST.LOUIS CLEVELAND MONTREAL Factory also in LONDON, ENGLAND
A Splendid Record Of Victories
b. LOVT For
emin¢cton, ROM GEon
Thirty-one (31) out of forty-five (45) State Shoots were won with Remington UMC & Guns or Speed Shells or both—nearly 69%.
Four (4) out of five (5) Interstate Handi-
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Survey of the Field—Illegal Food Produced by Industry— Sunday Hunting and Fishing—Near Trout—More Fish—Harmful Deer—More Laws—More Hares—Announcement of Live Game
Prizes—An Increase in the Number of Prizes—Our Policy.
How to Preserve Quail - - General George W. Wingate “More Game” and Crows aes) Te J. Freston Pheasant Rearing for the Beginner - E. M. Mengel
Notes from the Game Farms and Preserves - By Our Readers Quail Breeding—Owls, Pheasants and Jump Traps—A New Wild Goose—Albino Wild Duck —lInterested in Game Farming —Note from an Amateur—More About Pheasant Pens—A Summer of Calamaties—Can the Heath Hen Come Back ?—Black Bass—Game Ranches—tThe First Letter.
Editorials—A Wonderful Ornithological Discovery—The Crow— Quail in Winter.
Correspondence— Outings and Innings—Trade Notes.
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VOLUME XII
FEBRUARY, 1918
Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July 9, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, New York, under the Act of March 3, 1870.
NUMBER 5
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. SURVEY OF THE FIELD.
Illegal Food Produced by Industry.
C. E. Caldwell of Crescent, Wash., recently shipped 20 pounds of trout to the Spokane Fish Company, taken from his private hatchery near Crescent. A letter from Mr. Caldwell stated that if the meat substitute could be sold on the local market he had a big supply of trout for the city.
Mr. Henninger, head of the Spokane Oyster and Fish Company, took the matter up with the game commissioner, R. B. Wales, who was doubtiul about the sale of the fish as a conflict with the state game law, the fish which were tagged in the gills as specified by state statute, were taken to the retail store of Victor & Johnson and caught the eye of a deputy game warden, who immediately placed the retailers under arrest.
The food administration has been urging the extensive use of fish to conserve the meat supply and under the circumstances it has been urged that some emergency regula- tion be made by the-state authorities to per- mit the sale of fish from privately owned hatcheries or ponds under a license number.
The matter will be taken up with Mr. Heb- berd on his return from the Coast.
The courts should put an end to such nonsense instantly. All that would be necessary would be for the court to de- cide that fish produced by industry and owned by a breeder are not wild fish owned by the State; that the legislature surely did not intend to prevent a food- producing industry.
A test case can be presented and passed on in a few minutes. We suggest to the owner of the trout that he offer the fish to an express company for ship- ment to a dealer. Let the express com- pany refuse to carry the fish because of its fear that they are State fish, protected by law. Apply for a writ of mandamus compelling the common carrier to trans- port the food, and in our opinion the court will do the rest.
Ohio Sport.
The Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation of Ohio had a “Hooverized”’ din- ner at Hotel Gibson. Cincinnati, recently. “A majority of the sportsmen,” the Enquirer says, “appeared in sportsmen’s garb. A realistic touch was given the affair by a surprise stunt—the turning loose in the room of a white rabbit and a beagle hound, a merry chase around and under the tables ensuing.”
The audience sang “America.”
We think a more appropriate hymn would have been “God Save the Rabbit.”
Now that the wild turkey and the prairie grouse are extinct in Ohio (ex- cepting the first named bird on a few game farms), the ruffed grouse is nearly extinct, and the quail and dove are on the song bird list, we presume the sports- men must find something besides field sports to amuse them. We are sure, however, a good old-fashioned cock main would interest us more than worrying a white rabbit in a dining-room would. Sunday Hunting and Fishing.
Fred DeWitt, a New York game pro- tector, says, in the Kingston Leader, that Sunday hunting and fishing is a vio- lation of law in New York, but since it is not a violation of the game laws it is not the duty of game protectors to en- force the provisions of Sec. 2145 of the Penal law, to which he refers. Since sheriffs seem to be under the impression that the game police should look after fish and game crimes the result is the anglers may be seen beside the streams and there is more or less popping of guns with no one to interfere.
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Near Trout. i
The Wonca (D. C.) ‘lites says: “The people here are suffering a bit of fisherman’s graft because Washingtoni- ans are determined to ask for trout. The fisherman is bringing a little fish, called Whiting, to town, and the fish peddler is camouflaging it under the undeserved name of winter trout. There is no such thing in the heavens above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth as winter trout.”
We are quite sure there are no trout of any kind “in the earth beneath,” but we are not prepared to venture an opin- ion as to what kind of trout are to be found in “the happy hunting grounds” above.
More Fish.
An appropriation of $30,000 has been turned over to the Bureau of Fisheries by President Wilson from his emergency defence fund for promoting the use of new fish foods. The application was recommended by Secretary Redfield and. Food Administrator Hoover. Secretary Redfield said today that approxi- mately 25,000 tons of new fish foods already have been sold as a result of propaganda by the Department of Commerce, costing less than $15,000.
Enactment of laws to stimulate the produc- tion of clams was suggested today to Gov- ernor Carl E. Milliken, of Maine, by Secre- tary Redfield. Owing to unfavorable condi- tiuns, it was reported by the Bureau of Fish- eries that thousands of clams never reached full development, and Secretary Redfield wrote Governor Milliken urging that the State take steps for leasing barren or depleted bottoms for the cultivation of clams.
Why not suggest laws to stimulate the production of game? We hope it will not be long before the game is as credi- tably handled by the National Govern- ment as the fish are. It would be far better to encourage the production of a vast amount of game as food than to create a big number of new crimes which are unknown in any civilized country ex- cepting America, and a vast army of policemen to arrest the people guilty of the fanciful offenses—for having stock birds in their possession for breeding purposes, etc. Congress should ascer- tain why it is that market gunners in other countries are permitted to supply the people with game for food, just as
fishermen supply them with oysters and _ fish. The question is big enough for a Congressional investigation and there are plenty of people who know how easy it would be to keep our markets full of game at prices surprisingly small. The Dean of American Sportsmen, Charles Hallock, sent a good message on this subject to the Sportsmen of America, which we published last month, shortly after his death.
Harmful Deer.
The Newark (N. J.) News says: “The
State Department of Conservation and
Development has issued an appeal to the
agricultural interests of the State to sup- port a measure to be introduced by As- semblyman Hagaman, providing that any person may kill a deer at any time if it is found damaging his crops. The department states that the measure will not be opposed by the State Fish and Game Commission, though it is antici- pated it may meet with opposition from other sources.
More Laws. — ;
The Des Moines (lowa) Register says: “The second annual meeting of the Iowa Fish and Game Conservation So- ciety will be held at the Elks’ Club. The object of the meeting will be to formu- late and discuss a program for the se- curing of new legislation, etc.”
Often we have pointed out that the Sportsmen’s Associations usually get what they go after, “more laws.” We have heard of a bag as high as ninety in one State in a year, and often we won- der when the sportsmen will think they have enough.
Sportsmen who go after “more game” also get what they go after, and we are always glad to hear of places where they have made the game so plentiful that it is not deemed necessary to put it on the song bird list. :
More Hares. e
The Fulton County (N. Y.) Fish and Game Club has ordered 300. varying hares, which will be trapped ‘in ee and shipped early in February.
This in our opinion is better than run-
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ning over to Albany to secure a dozen
more game laws. We would advise the
club members to contribute fifteen or
thirty dollars each and to employ one or more men skilled with traps and the gun to look after the grouse and wood- cock on a good-sized area. Fifty cents a week from each member would pro- duce a fund sufficient to control a lot of crows, hawks, dogs, cats and other game enemies and the result should be that each member can stop a butcher’s bill bigger than the amount of his club dues. There will be some excellent sport for good measure.
We suspect soon there will be a move- ment to put the ruffed grouse and the woodcock on the song bird list for a period of years or forever. Long Island can be kept exempt from such legislation, as it has been kept open for quail shooting. A club man from
the Island (dues $15 per year) was in
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the office today and said they had fine
quail and grouse shooting last fall and >
plenty of rabbits. We suggest to the Ful- ton County Club to have the laws amended so they can have covies of quail in the fields and shoot these birds in addition to the hares. They will require some attention in the winter and should be amply protected during the nesting season. Try for a little “more game and fewer game laws.” You will be pleased with the novel experiment. Our adver- tisers can supply you with some pheas- ants and ducks and you will find these make an interesting side show or diver- sion. Try it for a season or two and’ you will never again run to Albany for more laws.
Announcement of Live Game Prizes.
Our announcement of prizes of live game awarded to active workers in the “more game” field, for practical com- thunications tg The Game Breeder, should have been made last month, but the report of the committee was not re- ceived in time for the January issue. Many articles were considered by the committee which were deemed worthy of prizes, but it was decided not to make awards (1) for articles for which
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the writers had been paid in cash, (2) for articles written by commercial breed- ers, (3) for articles about the breeding of non-game species. The committee recommended that one or more special prizes be awarded at the end of this year for articles about the breeding of aviary species. Articles which already had ap- peared in other publications were not considered, since they evidently were not written for the competition. The fol- lowing articles, which could not be con- sidered for the reasons stated, were highly commended: “Breeding Amhersts, Golden and Ringnecks,” by William Snyder; “Sample Mallards,” by.E. A. Mcllhenney, with excellent photographs of mallards and near mallards; “Game Breeding in Maine,” by R. E. Bullock; “Mallards and Near Mallards,” by F. B. Dusette; “Mallards, Near Mallards and Wild Turkeys,” by R. A. Chiles.
The first prize of live quail was awarded to Rev. R. W. Seigler for his article, “Raising Pheasants.”
The second prize of live quail was awarded to Mrs. S. S. Hirsch for her article, “How I Raise Pheasants.”
An Increase in the Number of Prizes.
For articles submitted during the year 1918 the Conservation Society announces six prizes instead of three—and prob- ably there will be several special prizes for articles about breeding the aviary species and about breeding quail and grouse wild in protected fields and woods. Articles about practical per- sonal experiences in breeding any spe- cies of game, big or small, or game fish will be eligible to prizes. It is suggested that the most important matters to be described by the writers are details of feeding and rearing, protection from natural enemies, and the cost of produc- tion. In writing the articles always bear in mind that our readers want to know how you do it and what it costs. Short letters giving these facts, especially when accompanied by illustrations, make the kind af articles which the Game Conser- vation Society requests for its competi- tion. Articles about the use of incuba- tors are timely.
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There will be at least one and prob- ably more prizes for articles about ver- min, what it does, and how to control it. We hope this year to induce more readers to discuss this important subject, and gamekeepers are asked especially to write letters on this subject. Plain let- ters telling what any species of vermin does and how to control it are what our readers want, we feel sure.
Rev. R. W. Seigler.
Dear Sir: It gives me pleasure to an- nounce, in the absence of our Secretary, who is an officer on one of the ships, that you have been awarded the first prize of live quail. We can ship you now some California quail if you would like to try these, or a little later we can send you bobwhites. The Society only procured a few bobwhites for its experi- mental farm, but soon it will have more, and if you will send us shipping direc- tions and state which birds you prefer they will be shipped soon.
Very truly yours, E. Dayton, Publicity Director, Game Conservation Society. Miss) S.\ 5) Hirsch:
Dear Madam: It gives me pleasure to say that you were awarded our second prize of live quail. We can send Cali- fornia quail now or bobwhites a little later. Please let us know which you pre- fer and give us shipping directions.
E. Dayton, Publicity Director, Game Conservation Society.
Our Policy.
We believe that the United States and Canada should be the biggest game-pro- ducing countries in the world. We be- lieve that our state Jaws should be amend- ed so as to encourage and not to prevent the profitable production of the food by industry.
We believe the state game departments
should represent all of the people ana
should not be conducted as governmental side shows in the supposed interest of sport alone; the necessary result too of- ten being the prohibition of sport. We believe the departments should be of great economic importance to all of the people; that they should look after the game on public lands and waters and on
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the vast areas where no one looks after it; that they should license the dealers in game and see that no game stolen from the state or from individuals be sold in violation of law. We believe that the laws should be amended so as to provide that state officers may issue permits to take stock birds for breeding purposes. We believe it should be legal to produce all species of game and to sell all
game produced by industry on inclosed-
farms; that it should be legal to breed the game in captivity or wild in pro- tected fields where it can be produced cheaply and without fear of diseases.
. We are sure sport for all hands will be much better than it is when game is ~
made abundant in many places by those willing to undertake the new industry of game farming.
We believe the people will be friendly to field sports and not hostile when they have plenty of cheap game to eat, as they soon will.
Why Not?
He was a new member of the harbor board in an eastern seaside town and was attending his first meeting. The board was discussing a proposal to place two buoys at the entrance to the harbor for the guidance of mariners. “I beg to propose as an amendment,” said the new member, “that one man should be placed there instead of two boys, as the latter are too young for such a responsi- ble position.”
40,000 Eggs.
By an error last month the advertise- ment of Mr. A. J. Park) pormSeaenes Wash., read 4,000 eggs. been 40,000. eggs for sale.
Mr. Park in calling attention. to the error writes, “If we did not have more than 4,000 it would not pay to advertise. We have orders for over 8,000 eggs now.’
A’ few years ago Eastern Breeders were sending two or three thousand eggs to the West. 5,000 eggs was considered a big number. Now there are many Western game ranches which can furnish 10,000 eggs or more and. the eggs have been found to stand the long transporta- tion.
It should have
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HOW TO PRESERVE QUAIL.
By GENERAL GEORGE W. WINGATE.
Many schemes have been devised for the preservation of quail, such as the destruction of cats and vermin, feeding the birds, and preventing shooting out of season, all of which have their merits.
There is another method, however, which experiment has proved to be supe- rior to all of them, and one I have never seen mentioned; that is, the housing of the birds during the winter season. Dur- ing this period they are almost helpless; their food supply is bad and is often cut off by snow, the snow not only pre- venting the birds from getting food but gravel. When heavy snow is followed by freezing, sleet forms, which prevents ' the coveys which have been covered dur- ing the night from escaping, and a hud- dle of bones in the spring indicates where a big covey has perished. Their tracks on the snow also permit their enemies to follow them, particularly boys and tramps, one shot from whom will destroy a whole covey.
Those clubs, especially on Long Island, who. have spent thousands of dollars to stock their grounds, find that the destruction of the quail in winter is far greater than at any other time of the year. They have also found that how- ever difficult it may be to retain quail in captivity during the summer, this is not the case during the winter; that if the quail are trapped and put into a good-sized pen covered with wire, and fed and cared for, they are quiet, will not injure themselves, and will be pre- served from the elements and _ their enemies and come out in the spring in splendid shape. The practice is then to take them in pairs and put each pair into a small coop in a neighborhood where it is desired to have a covey, and after they have been there a few days with food and water, so as to have be- come accustomed to their surroundings, liberate them. In practically every case where this has been done a good covey has been found to be the result.
Undoubtedly this practice is opposed
to the laws of many States, which pro- hibit the trapping of quail. This diff- culty, however, should be obviated 1n the same way as is done in respect to the laws affecting the raising of mallard ducks, pheasants and other birds—that is, by modifying the law so that the Con- servation Commission, Game Warden or other officials who are vested with authority in the matter will have the discretion of issuing to clubs and others whom they consider to be satisfactory a license to trap and keep quail for pur- poses of protection and propagation un- der such regulations as such authorities may prescribe in order that the privilege may not be abused.
If this is done experience demon- strates that there will be an increase in the number of quail which will be found in the spring of three times what it is under the present law which prevents any kind of trapping. It will be ob- served ‘that the fundamental principle in this is to vest in the authorities—and not to open the door to everybody—such dis- cretion. These officials will undoubtedly use a sound discretion in granting licenses, and if this is done the benefits which will result wiil be far greater than’ any evils which possibly could arise.
New York, January 5, 1918.
Hail in Kansas.
A dispatch from Reamsville, Kansas, says the drifts of hail stones last July were so huge that farmers were able to scoop the stones up in great quantities and pack them in caves to be used as ice during the hot season. The stones range in size from a marble to a hen egg and melted into compact masses keep as well as ice stored in winter.
We wonder if the hail killed many prairie grouse and quail.
You can get better. prices than ever before if you will send a small ad- vertisement offering the products of your game farm.
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“MORE GAME” AND CROWS.
By J. FRESTON.
I have been an interested reader of your publication for more than a year. I have gotten much enjoyment and much benefit out of the game and the hunting ‘thereof since I was first permitted to take out my father’s old muzzle-loader, so I am with you for “more game.”
It is in the interest of “more game” that I am going to tell you about the crows and their work, and in the hope that we can all work to develop a remedy. .
Last spring Dan Barnard had a wood- cock’s nest in his swamp and a partridge (ruffed grouse) nest with 14 eggs at the edge of his woods, and he kept a friendly eye on them, as Dan is-a hunter, too.
One day he found the woodcock gone and the four eggs punctured and sucked by the crows, and a few days later he visited the partridge nest and found the same thing there—14 punctured eggs and the partridge gone.
Theo. Rhoades and Fred Taber of
this place were hunting quail a few years ago, when quail were plenty here, and they saw a crow flying after a flying quail—diving this way and that as the quail dodged, and finally catching it when the quail dove into a bunch of deep grass. They were able to kill the crow and get the quail, which he had already killed.
Joe Kaley of this place saw a crow drop down out of a maple tree over the road‘ and catch a young chick partly grown and only fifteen feet from him— and the crow got away with it, too.
Now we have a colony of crows that roost on the bank of the Hudson across from Poughkeepsie — thousands’ and thousands of them — and each morning they spread out over the country for miles around and are hunting all day long till they come home in droves or
strings from all directions at night or '
just about dusk. The result is that we no longer have the song of the quail in the land; the
.or half dozen causes for it.
woodcock has become very scarce, and the partridge is almost extinct; and I blame the crow more than any other one I have seen dozens of empty birds’ eggs in my gar- den, under shade trees, on the road, but I never realized till Dan Barnard told me of the work they had done that it was the crow’s work and that each shell meant a robbed bird’s nest.
Is there anything that can be said in favor of the crow? eater, a weed destroyed, a food producer or an ornament? Does he sing? He is. not, and he does not. But he is a per- sistent destroyer of the birds that do these things, and he has so increased in numbers in the last couple of years that he has cleaned out most of our game, and I come to you for a remedy.
I did not realize till a few days ago how much the crow had done. Then I spent the afternoon with dog and gun tramping through the hills and moun- tains, through swales, over ground that
had always shown me birds before, but —
I was unable to find a bird—on ground that I- knew was first-class partridge ground—but they were gone; and I had pictures in my mind of the crows search- ing out the, nests, sucking the eggs or killing the young, as I know they can do. They are too wise to be shot or trapped,. so. the only remedy left is. poison. And now comes the question: Is it justified and is it necessary? Can the crow fill the place of the game and song birds he has destroyed, is destroy- ing or is going to destroy? It is up to you to find the answer. Very truly yours, For more game. J. FRESTON. New York.
More About the Crow. -
We have published much about the crow”
and the necessity for its control. We have made also some practical experiments, con—
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PHEASANT REARING FOR THE BEGINNER.
By E. M.
The pheasant industry, like poultry, is a paying proposition if it is managed right. After the pheasants are a few weeks old they are very hardy and do _ not get diseases if they are kept out of the wet and damp. They like the open air the best and all that they need for shelter is a shed with the three sides shut to keep out the wind. They prefer sitting out in the open if you have some- thing there for them to perch upon. I try to make it as near natural for them as possible. I get pine trees and boughs from the mountains and put them in their pens in heaps, twice or three times a year. Ina few months they trim them so that nothing is left but the wood. On a cold winter’s night I can go out to my pens and find them roosting on the pine boughs, although I have perches under the roofing. I have my pens built like a shed, with a yard attached. This is about as neat a pen as you can build.
There are many different varieties of
pheasants; the most popular are the English, ringneck, goldens, silvers and Amhersts and Reeves. There are also, be- sides the rare and higher priced pheas- antsy Swinhoe, Manchurian eared, Pea- _cock, Impeyan, etc. They are all easily raised, providing you have the knowl- edge, and care for them properly. The beginner should get’ all the books he can afford on pheasants, study them, and using his good judgment he will soon be able to raise pheasants.
Do not think that you can raise them all, or that every egg will hatch. They die, and some eggs are infertile, as chick- ens’ eggs are, and you are up against the same trouble as you are when raising
‘poultry. One thing I like about pheas- ants, all you raise you can be sure will be first-class specimens, providing you have thoroughbred stock to breed from. They all come true to color, etc., while in poultry you can raise a hundred chicks and you will have trouble in finding a few nearly perfect specimens. So this
* you are “working at the other end.
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is where you gain in pheasants—you get the same price for all that you raise, while with poultry you have first culls . selling at market price, next utility breeders, and then fancy and exhibition breeders, so you are getting practically three prices.
To the beginner I would say: first build your pen, say a shed twelve feet long and six feet wide (same can be built as long as desired, allowing six feet for each pen), the height can be made to suit your requirements and taste (I make my pens six in front and four feet in back, and runs six feet high). This will give you two pens, each six by six feet. To these attach your yards or runs, say about eighteen feet long; cover these runs with one-inch mesh wire net- ting (to keep out sparrows). If you use two-inch mesh the sparrows will eat more feed than the pheasants, and might carry lice and disease. I would use five- foot wire netting for the sides, and havy- ing a footboard running lengthwise at the bottom; this will prevent the cocks from fighting. I would make a door or gate at each end of the pen, one at the wire run and the other at back of shed. This will enable you to avoid passing the birds when you want to work in the shed and will not make the birds shy, and it will prevent them from flying against the pens and killing themselves, since if you have two passage ways the birds can always go to one end of the yard when The pens now ready, you will have two pens; each pen will accommodate as high as five birds.
The ringnecks can be mated four hens to a cock; the golden, two to three; Am- herst, one to two; silver in pairs, Swi in- hoes in pairs. Having the pens ready, I would select the best pheasants obtain- able; get a pair or a trio of whichever variety you choose. I believe the begin- ner would not make a mistake by start- ing with the ringnecks, golden or silvers,
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as they are not so expensive as the others; good birds can be bought from ‘ten to fifteen dollars a pair. Add the ‘different varieties as you think advisable.
When the hatching season arrives have a half dozen or so cochin bantams on hand to do your hatching, as they like to hatch and are light and make good mothers for pheasants. For setting them I use regular orange boxes. I make a roof over them with roofing paper, and make a gate of half-inch mesh netting; this will keep the young: pheasants from straying away as they are hatched out. These coops are set on the ground along- side of my pen or some other convenient place ; this keeps the eggs moist and helps the hatching. I always like to have every- thing as near nature as possible.
Now after the pheasants are hatched out do not feed the young pheasants anything for the first 48 hours, then their
first feed may consist of boiled eggs.
chopped up fine, with onion tops; a cus- tard made of eggs and milk is very good for them. I would advise using the pre- pared pheasant foods in addition to the above; later they can be given the pre-
pared steam- cooked chick, feed. I would
advise using steam-cooked chick feed for ‘both pheasants and chicks;
it does not cost much more than the regular feed. Fine ground bone and fresh meat are very good, but great care must be taken that you do not give them any stale meat.
I cannot see why anybody cannot make a success in pheasant rearing ; the
demand is great and the best prices are —
realized. The breeders are compara- tively few, but they are steadily increas- ing in numbers, so now is the time to get in line for this coming business one the booming is good.
Secure all the information you can and then use your own good judgment and the pheasant business will pay you better than any other business ‘in the breeding line.
Any breeder will be glad to supply you with information on the varieties that, he breeds. Now is the time to get started, and to have your pens ready with the pheasants, so that they will be used to the surroundings when the breeding sea- son arrives.
NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESSE
Quail Breeding.
One of our Western members, who has been very successful in breeding bobwhite quail, writes: “Now you ask how I went about the rearing of quail.
I would advise anyone raising quail to.
use a .22-caliber rifle to kill the king or leader of the various covies. I had about 60 pair of quail, and they divided up in bunches, with their king or leader sit- ting in the center, to give the alarm sig- nal if anything approached their camp. I took my rifle and killed these leaders through a hole made in the building. From that time, after the kings were killed, I could approach the birds with- out seeing them go to the top of the cage, and soon the birds became very tame. ‘As soon as the birds began to pair in the
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lot (which they would not do as es as their leaders were with them) I would turn them loose and they would nest and hatch within from 20 to 30 feet from where they were kept in captivity. Nearly all mated and raised their young. Very few mated so long as their leader remained among them. The birds nested mostly in currant and blackberry bushes by the fence.”
Owls, Pheasants and Jump Traps. ~
Here is something about our game law in Illinois. This spring I received an in- quiry for 10 owls, and they had been catching my pheasants. I thought I might
get a little out of them as part pay for ©
my birds they had caught, so I called the Game Warden and asked him about
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the law on owls. He told me they were on the song-bird list and that I had bet- ter not sell any, but if they caught my birds I could kill them if they were kill- ing my birds. I keep a few jump-traps setting around the tarm and catch some now and then and crack their heads. Illinois. G. H. Harris. [Those who have heard the tuneful owl in the night readily can imagine how he was mis- taken for a singer by the lawmakers. But as Little Red Riding Hood would say, Oh, my What big feet he has! These are to catch pheasants, quails and turkeys with—Editor.]
_A New Wild Goose. BrANTA EximMo DUSETTI.
Geographical Distribution. Local. Confined at present to one ranch in Michigan, U. S. A. Breeds throughout its range, which promises soon to be much extended.
Adult. Head and neck black, possibly with a slight greenish tinge by electric
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light (we looked him over at night just before he went to the kitchen to be plucked) ; a triangular patch of silvery white on each cheek extending across the throat (suggesting our common wild goose, Branta Canadensis, in his make- up or ancestry); upper parts dark brown, the feathers tipped with light yellowish brown; primaries and rump dark brown; tail black; lower parts gray- ish brown; anal region white; upper tail coverts white with lines of dark brown at tips of feathers and small dark lines
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acress the under tail feathers. Legs and feet greenish gray (also by Yonkers elec- tric light, not very good at the time, probably due to coal shortage). Bill black. Eyes shot out in specimen (prob- ably with No. 6 shot), so no color of iris can be given. |
Total length 38 inches; wing 19; tar- sus 3; culmen 2; weight 9% pounds. Bully on the table when roasted and served, as he was, with cranberry sauce.
Douny young. Probably yellowish gray. This is a mere guess. No speci- men available for description. Eggs not
in season at this time of the year, prob- ably similar to those of Branta Cana- densis.
This new wild goose (sent to me for identification and for my dinner) is a most valuable addition to our family, the Anatide. I have described it from the single specimen forwarded by the inven- tor and breedeer. Express prepaid (thanks). Possibly it should be listed
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as a Near-Branta on account of its habit of breeding in a near wild State and its resemblance to Branta Canaden- sis, our common wild goose, from which, however, it is easily distinguished. This goose is said to be fairly strong on the wing and a good sporting proposition. Probably its speed can be tuned up by a cross with Branta Canadensis or with Philacte Canagica, Branta Bernicla, or any old wild goose, all of which are speedy. A cross with Anser Fabalis, the Bean Goose, would seem desirable since
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this would lend additional meaning to the technical name “Eximo,’ which will
be explained later, and the Bean Goose
is said to be a very wary bird (Elliot). The flesh of Branta Eximo is dark, ten- der, juicy and delicious, strongly resem- bling the young of Branta Canadensis when feeding right.
By far the most important fact in the life history of this species is that it is totally exempt from restrictive game laws, and on this account it quickly can be made an abundant food. It can be handled in broad daylight, so to speak, even in game prohibition States, as freely as the Pekin duck or the Mallard, Anas Boschas, can be handled, the last named, of course, only in States which recently have repaired their game laws. On account of this peculiar advantage I have named the new species Eximo (Lat. Ex, Emo; Eximo), which indicates that this Branta declares “I am exempt!”
P. S. The breeder, Mr. Dusette, says this is the only wild fowl he is permit- ted to send out of Michigan. Warning: Don’t get him on the song-bird list.
P. S. No. 2. I can only present the portrait (head profile, Plate I) of this species and the feet. Plate II (which last named are most important in enabling it to escape the attention of game war- dens) since I did not have time to make a complete drawing of the body—cook said if I didn’t send him right in. he would not be plucked in time for dinner. He was eight days on the road from Bad Axe to New York, probably due to freight congestion on account of the war, but he arrived sound and sweet at the office of The Game Breeder. Seldom have I eaten a finer wild fowl.
Albino Wild Duck Shot By a Wiscon- sin Sportsman.
One of our Minnesota readers sends the following from the Minneapolis Tribune:
Prairie du Chien, Wis.——M. Brooks, a hunter of this vicinity, has a queer duck for a trophy and has had it mounted to preserve as a curiosity. He brought it down in the wild rice fields of the Mississippi near here: It is pure white
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from head to tip of tail and has red eyes. The bird was flying in a large flock of ducks and was plainly distinguishable from the rest a long ways off.
White blackbirds, white robins, white English sparrows, and even white crows have been known, but hunters who have hunted ducks for a lifetime on the Mis- sissippi—the greatest migratory highway for aquatic birds in the world—-say it is the first white wild duck they have ever seen or heard of.
They are puzzled to understand, con- spicuous in appearance as it is, how the duck was ever permitted to grow to ma- turity and get this far south without being shot. |
Interested in Game Farming.
The Game Conservation Society:
The game farming industry is a busi- ness in which I am greatly interested and I earnestly believe it will become eventually one of the leading and most profitable of all rural industries. I take great pleasure in reading your excellent publication and anxiously await each edition. I sincerely trust that in the near future you will find it profitable to issue it weekly. Hi
With your large acquaintance among game breeders and your intimate knowl- edge of the game breeding industry, I would greatly appreciate your advice as — to whether or not a profitable farm could be established in Minnesota. Also, if you have any data as to the probable cost of establishing such a plant exclu- sive of the initial cost of the land and would appreciate receiving same.
Finally, what are the terms and con- ditions of membership in the Game Con- servation Society?
Yours for more game, N. R. HorrMan.
Subscribing members pay $1 per year. Guild members pay $2 per year and receive prompt answers on any subject and other assistance. Contributing members pay $5 per year. This is simply a voluntary contribution to the gen- eral work of the society. Life members pay $100. The resources of the society are expend- ed in the effort to mitigate the hardships im- posed by law on breeders and to aid in creat- ing new game shooting clubs and other cus- tomers for game farmers. The industry is profitable as you can learn by writing to any
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of our advertisers. Many stop advertising because they can not fill their orders.
-An excellent paln is to purchase a farm con- taining some swamp land, ponds, etc., for ducks and geese. Pheasants and wild turkeys, quail and prairie grouse all can be reared on a farm which will produce grain. Some corn makes excellent cover and shade. It is a good plan to rent the shooting or breeding rights on some adjoining farms so the tur- keys, pheasants, etc., can have a wide range and find much of their food. Prairie grouse and sharp-tailed grouse would be one of the easiest and most profitable crops—provided you can get some stock birds and your laws permit you to sell the birds. They should be bred wild on land planted with hedges of wild rose, sunflowers and other foods and covers, between the fields so that the birds will be safe when the fields are plowed under and foods and covers are destroyed. Ruffed grouse can be kept fairly abundant in a safe woodland, but in your State you can not even shoot them. We suggest that you organize
the breeders, farmers and sportsmen in your State who are willing to rear game and get your laws amended so that it be no longer criminal to profitably produce the desirable foods on the farms. All intelligent sportsmen quickly adopt the more game idea when they understand it. The States which have the most liberal laws are the States where the Game Breeder has the largest circulation. The breeders do not seem to have a very fair chance in your State to breed the best birds— the grouse. It is to be hoped that some of the farmers can be induced to hold on to their prairie grouse until they can sell them for breeding stock. The man who thus saved the bison is reported to have made about $200,000.
When the farmers understand that grouse are valuable, quickly the laws can be amended and the game made abundant and profitable. We fear the birds may be “protected off the face of the earth,” before the people realize how valuable they are.
As to land values, we do not know what they are in your State. Any farm agent can inform you. You should pay 5 or 10 cents per acre rent for the additional land. This is what the big quail preserve owners pay in several States where they have made quail plentiful and keep them so.
Note From an Amateur.
I purchased a setting of ringnecks this spring and hatched nine. The hen killed one by kicking a piece of sod on it. I have the eight growing finely at two weeks.
I have them in an enclosed yard, 15 by 30, but I wish to know more about the “small movable pen” mentioned in The Game Breeder in an article on
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“More About Pheasant Pens.” I intend to raise all I possibly can next season and thought I would do better as a be- ginner to buy the eggs, as I would get the experience in raising sooner than I would by buying a pair of older birds and waiting a season.
I have had no difficulty whatever in raising them so far.
But I wish to know your idea as to whether to divide my yard into two pens “while I am fixing yard” for future use, or build a small movable pen, and how would I manage for shelter’ with movy- able pen?
I would appreciate any help you can give me.
I have been very successful with hens and chickens, for I iove the work. I am very much interested in pheasants, and if I succeed with these I shall add other birds.
I purchased my eggs of Miss Helen Bartlett, Cassopolis, Mich. They cost me $3.50 for eggs, 32 cents for express- age, but I consider the money well spent so far anyway.
Mrs. Martin Aumy.
You can sell all the eggs and birds you may have to sell by placing a small advertisement in The Game Breeder.
More About Pheasant Pens.
Many of the most successful pheasant breeders tow use a large pen made of boards with a roof of chicken wire to prevent the birds from flying out and to prevent hawks and crows from getting in. A board pen is better than a wire pen, since passing dogs and cats by day and foxes and other vermin by night do not alarm the birds. A small mesh wire should be fastened to the bottom of the pen on all sides and bent outward under ground to keep small ground ver- min and dogs from digging under the sides of the pen. Rats and other vermin leave signs of their work where they have endeavored to dig an entrance and are checked by the wire, and traps set outside of the pen will catch many game enemies.
A furrow is run by a plow around the line of the proposed fence; the small mesh wire is bent flat in this furrow and
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the sod should be replaced over it. A member of the Game Conservation Society, who had a pen full of pheasants and neglected to wire the outside, in the manner just described, reported that a dog dug under his fence in the ‘night and killed all of his birds.
It is ‘advisable to divide the levee pen into two or more parts, making a cross- fence of chicken wire with a gate that can be opened to let the pheasants pass from one pen to the other. Pheasants quickly destroy the grass in a pen, and if the birds are kept out of one part of the pen until the grass is well up they can then be permitted to go to the new ground by opening the gate between the inclosures.
A good-sized pen should have some brush placed at’ intervals running across it so as to make small hedges or covers. The brush is best placed against a cross ‘stick or support, leaning it up on each side, leaving an avenue beneath to which there should be frequent open- ings. The cock birds will indulge in fighting during the breeding season and if the pen be a small one, without the small covers referred to, one cock may kill many or all of the others. When the cocks can run into and out of the little hedges and are screened by them, when with the hens on one side or the other, the losses due to fighting are in- considerable, and possibly the exercise incident to the birds chasing one another may be beneficial.
Movable pens that are big anbuee to be desirable are difficult to move. At some pheasantries they are moved by horse power, but the large pen seems to be used more on the game farms and preserves we have visited, and we have no doubt the skilled game farmers and keepers would use the movable pens more than they do if there was any ad- vantage in so doing. The large pen is the only kind we have ever used.
If,the pens are to be used year after year the .ends should be made so that they can be taken down easily, so’as to be able to run a plow through the pen. It.isa-good: plan to. have a second pen On. fresh, g ground and to plow up: and
to the difficulties encountered.—Editor. |
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plant the ground in the old pen after it has been used for two seasons. Always
there is danger of disease if a pen be
used year after year.
We shall be glad to have letters (on keepers who have used movable pens. We have only seen them at one place and the birds did not appear to us to look as well there as we have seen them > on many big game farms and preserves — when the big pens are used.
Small breeders and breeders of the
expensive aviary species often use small
pens containing one cock and four or five hens. The big pen is the one most > used on shooting preserves and game farms where large numbers of birds are reared for sport or for sale to shooting clubs. .
A Summer of Calamities.
[The writer says the following description
of wild turkey difficulties is not for publica-
tion. We always heed such requests but we are sure there will be no objection to our quoting fhe part of the letter which refers
Last summer was a summer of calami- | First crows got the eggs of my wild turkeys in the breeding pens; next a dog did the same until at last I poisoned him. Then owls got the little ones ; then gapes. At last I turned them all out with tame mothers and this went well for a while, then they began rambling all up and down the river until a man who lives three miles from me sent for me to come and get them. There were thirty a that flock.
I had to put them up and a mink got one each night so I ‘et them out and they | vanished. Nor did I find them until last Sunday and five more were gone. But the one with shot in his breast and crop told the story of how that one and his brethren had been going. But I still have some beauties.
(Continued from page 138.) trolling the crows and other vermin, with excellent results. If you could see (as we have) ruffed grouse, pheasants and quail all in the air-at-once within a few yards of the house, and if you could hear the rapid popping of. the guns and the thump. of the. big birds‘as they struck the ground, you would
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agree, we are sure, that we applied the proper remedy.
You say it is up to us to “find the answer.” Here it is: A liberal use of the Remington pump and automatic guns, most valuable aids to game preserving and a liberal use of Oneida traps properly placed soon will show a de- -crease not only in the number of crows, but also of hawks, snakes, minks, weasels, cats, dogs, rats and other game enemies that know that eggs and birds are very good to eat.
At the place where quail, grouse and pheas- ants all were shot over one point in a little wood quité near the house a lot of mallards and black ducks might be ‘seen on the ponds where they were safe not only from vermin, _ but also from the guns—the game being to shoot them away from their home pond.
There were crows in abundance on the ground referred to, and at the outset they beat us to a few eggs and young ducks, but soon it was amusing to see them fly high and well out of range when they passed over the preserved area. We were tempted to use poi- son, but did not. We do not favor it if it can be avoided. It seems to us, also, to be more sporty to circumvent Mr. Crow, et al. with the Remington and the Oneida.
You can form a protective association and ‘procure one more game law (putting the ruffed “grouse on the song bird list, as they did re- cently in Minnesota), in the hope that the -crows will stop eating eggs and birds, or you ‘can. form a game breeders’: association and . hire a few beat: keepers who soon will. show -you.a lot of quail as well as ruffed grouse and woodcock with some pheasants, mallards, black ducks and wild turkeys for good meas- ure, if you care for these. Your woods will stand a big lot of shooting and we suggest that you form a big club with a hundred or more members; make the annual dues 50 cents or a dollar a week and you all will get more than your money’s worth in excellent meat.
The trouble is you and your friends have been shooting the stock birds left for breed- ing purposes by the crows, hawks and other eaters which always have had plenty of eggs and birds for their food and always would have if you had not upset nature’s balance by your additional, and often excessive, “check to increase” as the naturalists would term shoot- ing. There never is enough game for vermin and the guns. It is up to the guns to see that vermin does not take much of the game if they wish to preserve field sports. You can have so much game that it will pay to sell some of it to help pay for the necessary expenses and what is more important to give the dear people a taste of the game they are said to own and thus make them, friendly to sport. The big danger is that field sports will come to an end at the hands of game prohibi- lionists, but this danger will cease as it did in England when the people get a taste of cheap game—EDbIrTor,
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-Miss Heien Barlett has moved from Cassopolis, Michigan, and now has her game farm at Niles, Michigan. We be- lieve she would do well to move a little farther south—on the Kankakee—and add prairie grouse to her collection.
Dr. H. K. Job has an excellent ar- ticle on Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure, in the January issue of the American Museum Journal in which he points out that “it is most important that legislation should encourage and promote the propagation of game and not obstruct it.
Since Dr. Job is a member of the Au- dubon Association, we hope he will sug- gest to the law department of the society the importance of excepting game breed- ers from the many laws it advocates put- ting game birds on the song bird list. Who on earth can be expected to pre- serve game birds for profit or sport if the laws provide that no one can take or eat-a bird?
A prominent New York man, who re- cently spent some time in the office of The Game Breeder discussing the prob- lems of ““More Game and Fewer Game Laws” said he feared the protective or- ganizations might be handling game breeding as a sort of camouflage for their activities in getting more laws which would put an end, to the industry.
Surely the recent successful efforts to put the quail and the grouse on the song bird list do not indicate any desire to have these birds made profitable or plen- tiful either for sport or for pleasure. All such laws should contain a clause stat- ing they do not apply to the breeders of quail or grouse.
Can the Heath Hen Come Back?
From Albany, N. Y., under date of March 17, comes a press report announc- ing that an effort is being made by the Conservation Commission to bring back the heath hen, the Eastern relative “of the prairie chicken, to New York, where in a previous century it flourished and was abundant.
The Conservation Commissioner, George D: Pratt, in his annual report to the legislature, says of the new venture:
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“The heath hen, one of the first game _ birds to be protected by law in New York, but extinct in the State for many years, has been returned to its native range as a result of co-operation recently effected by the Conservation Commission with the Commissioners on Fisheries and Game of the State of Massachusetts.
“Twenty-one of the birds have been taken from the Martha’s Vineyard Reser- vation, where they have been protected from extermination by the careful work of the Massachusetts Commission, and have been liberated upon the State game farm at Middle Island, Long Island, where it is hoped that they will multiply and eventually spread over a large part of the territory once inhabited by them.”
[We doubt much if the Heath Hen ever can come back unless it receives some practical protection. It is a very. easy mark and an easy prey to vermin. It vanished quickly on Long Island when shooting was added to the ordinary checks to increase and there are more guns now and more dogs and cats than there were at the time the bird was exterminated. We hardly believe it would survive in many places if shooting be prohibited (unless game preserving be undertaken) because no one would look after it properly and being a large and easy mark and very good to eat those who are forgetful about game laws would probably take a shot at it when out rabbit shooting. —Editor. ]
The Game Breeder:
Can you give me the name of any private fish hatchery.or anyone else from whom I can purchase some mountain trout for stocking private ponds and
aquariums. I enclose stamped envelope for reply. Indiana. Frank C. Evans. Write to the Yama Farms. Address Fish Dept., Napanoch, Ulster County,
New York. Our readers report excellent results from trout purchased from Yama Farms.
Black Bass.
Last month we published the adver- tisement of The Blooming Grove Club offering to purchase small-mouth black bass for re-stocking. We only know of two commercial black bass hatcheries in America and these, no doubt, cannot fill their orders. We shall be interested to hear from the club if they secured any
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bass and from our readers if they know any ‘places where bass can be purchased for re-stocking or for breeding purposes.
In some of the States it is illegal to breed and sell black bass, strange as such a food-producing crime may appear. But it is not so very long since we heard a resolution offered at an annual meeting of the New York Sportsman’s League which advocated an amendment to the laws permitting trout breeders to sell trout. The resolution was denounced by some as an “entering wedge.” It would not be long they said before some one would propose to seli game. proposed this before the meeting ad- journed.
We have now hundreds of commercial trout breeders who produce millions of
trout and members of The Game Con-
servation Society now produce millions of game animals which are shot and eaten and. sold both alive for propaga- tion and as food.
It seems strange that the bass and the
quail should excite the animosities of a lot of game law enthusiasts when it is proposed to make these foods plentiful.
The breeding of black bass is more difficult, no doubt, than the breeding of trout. quite different. We hope to publish some articles about bass breeding before long and that this industry may become as common and profitable as trout breed- ing is.
In answer to an inquiry addressed to the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington we received the foliowing:
“In reply to your letter of October 15 you are advised that the Bureau has no list of hatcheries that propagate small-mouth black bass. The Bureau’s stock of that species for this season has become exhausted, but if you desire a limited number next May or June it is thought that they can be furnished from one of the Bureau’s propagating stations. There is inclosed herewith a blank upon which formal application may be made.”
H. M. Smiru, Commissioner.
Hon. J. W. Titcomb, one of the best fish culturists in the United States, and now. at the head of the New York De- partment, wrote that he only knew of the two commercial bass hatcheries which we mentioned in our letter to him.
There would seem to be an excellent
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opportunity for the starting of this in- dustry in many parts of the country. There undoubtedly will be an increasing demand for bass to restock ponds on country places and preserves. Many people have lakes aud ponds well filled with bass and would be willing to sell some of their fish if it were legal to do so.
Bass should, of course, be abundant and cheap in all our markets.
The game shooting clubs are doing far more good for the shooting public and eating than the quiet refuges do, since when the shooting is lively many birds desert and are shot in places miles away from the breeding grounds.
Over a thousand ducks went out one season from The Game Breeders’ Asso- ciation on Long Island, N. Y., where they were reared about an artificial pond from
purchased stock birds.
Jt seems strange for some sportsmen to be in favor of establishing vast areas as quiet sanctuaries where no one can shoot and where no food is produced for the people to eat, and to be opposed to lively shooting clubs where game is bred and shot abundantly. There is plenty of room in America for all kinds of game preserving and the game breeders laws rapidly have resulted in many tons of game being produced and shot by those who prefer field sports to game laws.
The First Letter About It.
Editor Game Breeder:
Since talking with you about the States which would send the most game to the hospitals and the betting on the result, it occurs to me it is hardly fair to the other States for the Conservation Society to locate its new farm in the State selected (New Jersey, I understand), and give the entire amount of your game to the hospitals. This gives the State selected a decided lead in production. You know what J think my State can do. I would like to see it win. Ei, Rea
[You are quite right. We will leave out the amount of game produced on the new farm
of the society. We doubt if we will produce much over a ton of game, since we are ex-
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perimenters, aiid experiments do not always produce the~best results the first year. We only produced about three tons of game the second year of our experiment at the Game Breeders’ Association. Whatever we do we will leave it out when the figures in the com- petition are made up. New Jersey was talked about but we have lands offered in other places that seem even more suitable to our requirements.—EprTor. |
Game Ranches.
We like much the term “game ranch” used in the article of Mr. F. B. Dusette. It is legal to have cattle ranches and sheep ranches, why should we not have big deer ranches, grouse ranches, duck ranches and ranches for quail and other game. There are no better foods than the game foods, and food production just now is popular. The Game Conservation So- ciety encourages the game ranch for sport and for profit and we always are glad to record the creation of new ranches.
Good News.
The following telegram received by The Game Breeder is self-explanatory. It will be good news for quail breeders:
GOV -E RUSH: Western Union Telegram. Washington, D. C., 527P.24. Importation Mexican Quail Will be Permitted Beginning February Fifteen. HENDERSON, Acting Chief Biological Survey.
“More.”
What a great, big word “more” has become recently since The Game Breeder set the “more game”? movement going. The race between “more laws’ and “more game” is exciting. We have placed all of our money on the last named horse.
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We hope our members will respond promptly to a _ circulation proposition which soon they will receive in the mail.
Many members are calling for our sub- scription blanks who say they wish to increase the circulation of The Game Breeder.
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‘The Game Breeder
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A WONDERFUL ORNITHOLOG- ICAL DISCOVERY. _
Readers are urged to read the descrip- tion of a new wild goose, Branta Eximo Dusetti, printed on another page.
Possibly some oi the older ornitholo- gists may regard'the description as too lightly written and may criticize the statement that the goose’s eye was shot out, probably with No. 6 shot, and also the suggestion to cross him with the bean goose, Anser Fabalis, in order to give him more speed and wariness, but we would remind them that it is such details which interest the sporting natu- ralist, for whose eye our pages largely are prepared. Plates I and II, specially con- structed to accompany the text, we feel sure will meet their approval.
All must regard it as a great ornitho- logical triumph to con§truct a wild goose entirely exempt from prohibitive game laws, as this wild goose is. It came right out of a game prohibition State directly into that tight market area, New York, and was eaten by the editor without any- one being arrested! We regard these re-
markable facts as a sufficient justification -
for the enthusiastic details in the tech- nical description such as “He is bully on the table when roasted and served with cranberry sauce, as he was,” etc... The discovery of this new wild goose is far more important than the discov-
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ery of Bevo and other near-beers was to the thirsty citizens of Norfolk, Va. We were there when they first: began to. suffer. We sincerely hope that if the migratory bird treaty bill, which might catch this splendid fowl in its mesh of regulations, fails, as it should, that no constitutional amendment ever will be proposed to close all of the states to this excellent food. The discovery of Branta Eximo is far more important from an economic point of view than people not versed in the game laws would believe.
In our opinion it far out-Bevos Bevo ~
and the other near things for the thirsty, and if all our other game shall be “‘pro- tected” out of existence and goes the way of the bison and the wild pigeon, — Branta Eximo may survive and become abundant and cheap in the market. In future years it may be pointed out with pride by those who would claim there still is some food freedom in “the land of the free.” :
A near-wild food of the splendid char- acter (see technical description) is far more important than a near drink. _
THE CROW! THE CROW!
The story about the New York crows and their work sent by Mr. J. Freston is remarkable and valuable. Now that the crows have taken to hunting our song birds, bobwhite, on the wing, as the hawks do, and also “suck” all the eggs in the woodcock and “partridge” nests, it would seem high time to con- trol some of the “beneficial crows.” But who can be found to do this when the game protective societies, led by the wild- lifer, succeed in putting the woodcock and the partridge on:the song bird list in New York?
The remedy to us seems plain. “Keep the game laws off the game farms and shooting grounds’ where sportsmen and farmers take the trouble to protect the game from its enemies and to keep it plentiful.
All that is necessary is for the pro-. tectives and the Audubons not to go too fast when they go after more game laws. Laws prohibiting shooting (or making song birds of the game, as it is commonly
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expressed since The Game Breeder ex- hibited bobwhite in a cage on its cover) should always contain a clause that they do not apply to game produced by in- dustry—the protection from enemies be- ing an important part of the industry.
MORE ABOUT BRANTA EXIMO.
The inventor of Branta Eximo, de- scribed in this issue, says when we wish to shoot something larger than a duck we go after the geese. The half-bred wild goose, for which enclosed find ex- press receipt, I shot flying at fifty yards with No. 6 shot which we always use in all our wild goose shooting.
QUAIL IN WINTER.
The paper by General George W. Wingate, “How to Preserve Quail,” printed in this issue, is interesting, timely and important. The losses of quail due to climate often are severe “not only in New York but in all of the Northern States. It is the habit of our quails, which are terrestrial birds, to sit quietly on the ground until the snow covers them, often to a depth of some feet. If the snow does not freeze the covey will burst through it and fly away in search of food, which unfortunately cannot be found on many of the closely cultivated fields, where the wild rose, the sumac, the wild sunflower and other wild foods have been destroyed in the inter- est of agriculture. When the snow freezes on top and an ice crust is formed the quails are imprisoned and perish mis- erably. Often not a bird survives on vast areas.
On one of our favorite grounds in Ohio, where it was an easy matter some years ago for a party of four guns to shoot a wagon-load of quail in a week, the quail were practically ex- terminated during a severe winter storm when an ice crust. formed on the snow. We tramped for several days, the follow- ing autumn, over this famous quail ground, and although we had excellent dogs we failed to find any quail except- ing one small bevy of twelve birds which flew up into the beech trees, where we
shooting’
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lett them without firing a gun. We had
‘become convinced that the quail prac-
tically had been exterminated.
The enactment of laws prohibiting shooting for a term of years may result in an increase of the game, but a little shooting in States where the covers and the foods are gone seems to be too much; and every few years we can count on a severe snow, when our quail are sure to be almost annihilated. It is a very easy matter to break up the snow crust with a snow plow and to feed the quail on one or more long lines across the game farm or preserve, where it pays to have quail. It is easy to trap and house the birds from exposed situations, as General Wingate suggests, ‘and also to invite many quail to come to the barnyards to be fed and sheltered; but who will un- dertake to care for the quail in a prac- tical and somewhat expensive manner if the reward for doing so is a term in jail or a heavy fine.
Quail at $5.00 or even $3.00 a dozen in the markets can be made a wonderful food crop. Sport need have nothing to fear from such abundance. Quail on the song-bird list, with a standing army of game police to arrest anyone who even attempts to look after the game in win- ter, never will be a success either for sport or for food.
The time has arrived, as often we have pointed out, for the sportsmen to deal fairly with the farmers. Working together, easily they can make the quail abundant and keep it plentiful both for sport and for profit.
We published some years ago the story of a sportsman-farmer who trapped the quail on his farm, anticipating a hard winter, and kept them securely in his barn. Practically all of the quail in his county were killed by reason of a crust of ice forming on top of a decp snow. In the spring the liberated quail bred nicely and in a few years they had re- stocked many fields throughout the county.
Of course the laws should be amended so as to make it no longer criminal to look after the birds properly; to trap them for winter protection and in order to separate them and turn them down in
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places where covers and foods have been planted.
Quail should be handled by breeders on the same terms as pheasants are. Permits should be issued to land owners to trap and sell quail for breeding pur- poses. Soon they would become plenti-. ful on every suitable area.
CORRESPONDENCE. A Good Idea.
Editor, Game Breeder:
The initial expense in connection with breeding pheasants and ducks is so con- siderable that but few clubs have sought licenses in this state to breed birds for their preserves.
Would it not be greatly to the inter- est of small clubs if the laws were so amended that they could purchase their pheasants and ducks from other breed- ers and release and shoot them on their wholly inclosed preserves in the same manner as if they were bred by them under a breeder’s license? I drafted the original breeders’ bill and have given this matter much thought and believe that such an amendment would result in the organization of many small clubs and a far wider market for the breeder and would prove a distinct step toward a greater game supply.
Henry M. Bricuam.
New York.
Dear Mr. Brigham:—The suggestion is ex- cellent. If you will write the amendment and send it to Albany it no doubt will be approved by the Conservation Commissioner and be en- acted by the Legislature. While you are in this laudable public service why not also write an amendment providing for the trapping of a reasonable amount of breeding stock so we can put a little more speed in the targets.
We have always favored contract-rearing. As a matter of fact many game birds are now reared under contract in America and we be- lieve many sportsmen shoot the game they have thus purchased. We have not the slight- est doubt that the courts will uphold them in so doing. The laws intended to preserve wild game are not intended to prevent a food-pro- ducing industry of vast economic importance. We believe where semi-domesticated birds are killed for food by the owner the burden of
proof may be on him to show that the game
‘is his property and not game owned by the State and where such evidence is plain we believe the courts will hold that the members
‘formation of
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of the Legislature can not be presumed to be demented.
The Pekin duck and others are related’ to wild ducks but a raid on a Long Island duck farm would not be popular just now and we
_ are quite sure sportsmen who own wild tur-
keys, near-mallards and other game birds pro- duced by industry are quite safe in shooting them for food or taking them “otherwise” if they so prefer. It would be well, of course, to have the law amended in order to remove temptation from boodling game wardens. There seem to be a few rare specimens of this species still in existence. Most of the States, how- ever, are entirely freed from them and have State officers who would not tolerate arrests made evidently for the purpose of boodiing, where it is evident that the game is owned by the party the warden wishes to “touch.”
Something Wholesome.
The Game Conservation Society :
I heartily congratulate you both on the spirit and purpose of your maga- zine. There is something wholesome about it. I can not figure that your edi- tor has written anything in the last two years that he did not believe. I am in- closing $5.00 for which please send me Our Feathered Game, Our Wild Fowl and Waders and The Game Breeder till the money runs out. I will run all risk of delivery and I live seventy miles from a customs house.
VANCE FOSTER.
Canada. ‘
Bought Much From Our Advertisers.
Editor, Game Breeder:
I am a subscriber to The Game Breed- er and have bought several hundred dol- lars worth of pheasants from your ad- vertisers, also wild geese, ducks, swan, deer, etc. ;
Please send me booklet regarding the game preserves, clubs, game farms, etc.
Ee
Tennessee.
LYour letter was received long ago; like thousands of others it had to wait its turn for an answer. It would take an army of stenographers to keep up with the mail of the Game Conservation Society politely. The article about the formation of game clubs appeared in The Game Breeder, but the edition was entirely sold out at the time your letter was received. There will be another article on this subject soon and we hope to print it with other matter in a booklet—Editor.]
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_ A Bob-Tailed Heading or Camouflage.
I notice one of the Game Protective Associations has started a department in Forest and Stream, using as a heading part of your old slogan, “More Game and Fewer Game Laws.” The new head- ing simply has “More Game” and looks sort of bob-tailed to me. I have an idea the protective societies all want more laws all the time.
Fas:
Brooklyn, N. Y.
[The words “more game” in our opinion “can not be given too much publicity. Our trade mark and also the magazine purposely are not copyrighted. We are glad to have anyone use all or any part of our ideas. It would hardly seem proper for game protec- tive associations (which are seeking more laws international, national, State, county, etc., in- i cluding laws putting the ruffed’ grouse and other birds on the list with bobwhite and the other singer) to say, “fewer game laws.”
A man from your borough who was in the office a few days: ago said, “more game” seemed with some people to be used as a sort of camouflage to secure safety in getting more game laws.—Editor.]
More Game and Fewer Game Laws.
It must be evident to all intelligent game officers that if non-residents can put over laws prohibiting sport they may keep themselves well supplied with funds but the game departments hardly can expect money from shooting licenses when it is illegal to shoot.
Another One From Brooklyn.
Editor, Game Breeder: :
What doth it profit a man if he save his pump gun and loose his own field sports?
My full name and address are inclosed to show J am a member in good standing.
[Probably you have been reading the gospel according to St. Matthew. Your note strongly suggests, “What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world,’ etc. Your inquiry is referred to The Game Protective Society for investigation and report.—Editor.]
The prices for pheasants seem to be rising. A number of advertisers report they can not fill their orders.
Members who have not tried an ad- vertisement in The Game Breeder will _ be surprised at the excellent returns they
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will get if they will offer game or eggs or fish. :
Letters come often saying, my adver- tisement in your magazine sold every- thing I had to seil.
OUTINGS AND INNINGS.
Pheasants Warn of Approach of Hawks.
A dispatch from Hood River, Oregon, to the World, N. Y., says:
Forest L. Moe, a rancher of the Odell district, says he has lost no chickens from the numerous hawks that frequent the neighborhood because of a well-de- fined system of signals maintained by the Chinese pheasants on the place and the barnyard fowls.
The old pheasant cocks, according to Mr. Moe, usually sight the hawk first. Their cries are taken up by the barn- yard rooster, who warns the old hens.
“The latter,” says Mr. Moe, “immedi- ately hurry their little chicks to safety, and thus the Chinese pheasants have solved the hawk problem for us. The birds eat up a good deal of corn, but I figure that they are worth it.”
Eagle Stole First Papers.
Lawrence Maeir is searching over Greeley County, Nebraska, for his nat- uralization papers. An eagle took the document from his coat while Maeir was working in a field. Maeir has petitioned the Naturalization Department at Wash- ington to grant the clerk of the District Court here permission to reissue the pa- pers.
Meatless Days in Maryland.
(From the Baltimore American) Maryland observes meatless days with an extra portion of terrapin!
A New Yorker. (From Life) “You say he’s a New Yorker?” “Yes; he lives in New Jersey, has a country home on Long Island, spends his winters in Florida and comes to New ork occasionally to business.” Probably has a quail preserve in North Carolina—Game Breeder.
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AGAIN THE MIGRATORY BILL.
The American Protective Association has sent us for publication a copy of a resolution adopted by six State game officers, the Executive Committee of the National Association of Game and Fish Commissioners, favoring the enactment of Senate Bill 1553 intended to give effect to the migratory bird treaty. |
We are a little surprised that some of the officers should favor the bill in its present form. We do not believe they fully understand its objectionable fea- tures.
There can be no possible objection to a proper law prohibiting the spring
shooting of migrants (if it be constitu-_
tional and we are inclined to believe it may be so held) provided the law be written as all criminal laws should be in simple language making it easy for the people to know what is criminal. We have repeatedly urged that crime is a serious matter not to be treated with- out due consideration and, since the peo- ple are presumed to know the law, the law should state the offence and not delegate to others, especially to those who are to execute the law, the right to make numerous criminal offences.
No members of The Game Conserva- tion Society favor shooting their ducks or those which are said to belong to the State during the nesting season. There will be no objection here to a law putting an end to spring shooting provided it de- fines the crime and fixes the penalty so that all who read may know what the law is. Such a law, no doubt, can be made permanent and not subject to re- peated changes as regulations will be to suit the whims of prospective criminals. Such a law can be made uniform and universal as all criminal laws should be.
We hardly believe that the bill in its present form can ever become a law. It is easier to secure legislation ‘by Stam- pede’ in the State Assemblies than it is in the Congress. ;
We would like to see the present bill referred to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate for a cursory glance. If that committee will say that this bill is a proper criminal enactment, that the
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United States should delegate the right
to make numerous crimes to those who
,are expected to execute the law, and that a big appropriation should be made
to secure the numerous crimes and their repeated changes and for their execu- tion, we will say, amen, and we will ad- vise game breeders to keep as well posted as they can concerning the fleeting changes which are as sure to occur as the changes in State game laws do. Blackstone tells us what a criminal law should be. We believe he was not con- sulted when the present bill was drawn. We again say we are not opposed to stopping shooting in the breeding sea- son. We are quite sure a bill can be written to cover this idea and that the destruction of song birds also can be prohibited at all times. We believe such a law will be obeyed especially if it is known that the United States Marshals
are instructed to make some examples of
violators.
Prairie Grouse Enemies.
The principal ground enemies of the prairie grouse are coyotes, foxes, weas- els, minks, cats, dogs, rats, skunks, snakes and in some places turtles, no doubt. Winged enemies are the prairie falcon and some other hawks, including the marsh hawk; and there are some individuals among the smaller hawks which will bear watching; crows and, in the vicinity of timber, great horned owls. | takes many grouse where the birds occur.
Anyone who undertakes grouse breed- ing will be surprised at the number of game enemies which will be found on any given area and also at the number of visitors which will drop in to get some of the excellent food when it be- comes plentiful.
It is important to bear in mind that it is impossible to control all the ene- mies ona moor or prairie; that there will be many losses, but if these can be kept down the grouse quickly will become very abundant on attractive ground and remain so even if thousands be shot every season. Briars are a great pro-
The golden eagle undoubtedly
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tection to grouse and many ground and
winged enemies ‘find it difficult and, in fact, almost impossible to take grouse in briar. patches. The wild roses and black berries are important plants for the grouse preserve since both give pro- tection and winter foods which often
-can be found above the snow.
The Work of the Society.
Reat Estate.—We are prepared to give advice about the purchase of real estate and the renting of shooting. It is important to select ground suitable for the game it is intended to introduce. Many failures have resulted from at-
. tempts to breed game on unsuitable areas...
We can send an expert to look at land and to suggest food plantings for upland game and for wild fowl.
GaME FisH.—We are prepared to give
advice about the selection of waters suit-"
able for the propagation of fish, the erec- tion of fish hatcheries and the purchas of fish.
GAME BREEDING ASSOCIATIONS»—We
are prepared to give advice to those
who contemplate forming game breeding associations and shooting syndicates.
_, Game Birps.—We are prepared to
give advice about the purchase and in- troduction of game birds, the creation of pheasantries and breeding enclosures for the hand rearing of true game birds and wild fowl. We can send an expert to lay out the grounds and advise the planting of suitable covers and foods where wild breeding operations are con- templated. - -
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. The Grouse and the Farmer. When the farmers receive the amount
of their taxes from the shooting. club, ©
they will not be friendly to legislation. of the kind which was nearly slipped over in North Dakota and which has already been slipped over in many states as far west as Idaho, where grouse shooting, pheasant shooting and quail shooting are prohibited. - Baile 9
We have shot on many places where practical protection-is carried on and we found the farmers well pleased with the sport and glad to have some one always
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on hand to kill the hawks and other ver- min which were taking their poultry. There is plently of room in North Dakota for grouse clubs for all of the sportsmen and those who do nothing will find some fair shooting far better than any they can find under the existing con- ditions. We would like to see the new Protective Association become a grouse club. We furnish plans and estimates. The: quail clubs recently prevented the slipping over of a regulation to pro- hibit quail shooting on Long Island, N. Y.; thereby keeping the shooting open for their members on the small part of the island preserved and also for all who wish to shoot on the larger area not used by the clubs. This is far better than uni- versal prohibition in Ohio. It is quite wise to interest the farmers and quite fair to see that they get something out of the game. They hold the whip in agricultural states and it sooner or later is easy for mischief makers to slip some- thing over with the aid of the farmers if their interests be wholly disregarded.
Betting on the Result.
Already there has been some discus- sion among game breeders as to which state will send the largest tonnage of game to the hospitals. There has been a little betting on the result. We placed a small bet recently on a state where some big breeding operations are going on.
Readers who wish to stake an opinion as to which State will be the winner can send sealed cards to The Game Breeder, stating the name of the State selected. These will be opened at the end of the distribution when’ an announcement of the winner will be made. Since several may pick the same State as a winner, we have decided to number each card (nam- ing a state), which is first opened, No. 1, if it appears that this State sends the most game the first card opened which names the State will receive the first prize. This prize’ will be a fine lot of northern quail, suitable for breeding
-purposes=~birds like the bunch bursting
into view on the new Remington calen- dar.
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FENCES FOR GAME PRESERVES
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This fence held in check 80,000 people who attended the Harvard- Yale Game, November 25th, 1916, and 60,000 people who attended the Princeton-Yale Game, November 13th, 1915. pyill Z ‘
We have this fence and many other excellent designs. It will be to your advantage to secure our Catalogue, that shows many of the best erected fences in this country; also tells about our posts in detail; how to erect a fence; how to paint the fence wire to keep it from rusting. ; :
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My birds are raised for my own shooting and are very strong on the wing.. Member of The Game Guild. Member American Game Breeders Society.
Land for Game Preserve and Country Howe Near New York For Sale.
About three hundred acres on the Mianus River in Greenwich, Conn., may be purchased at present for one thousand dollars per acre. Suitable for a magnificent country house seti, with surrounding forest like that of English estates. A mile of beautiful trout stream and a newly made lake of several acres on the place. Owner will not divide the tract. Its peculiar value rests in the combination of forest, cliffs and stream in a tract of this size so near to New York and to the social centers of Greenwich and Stamford. :
Deer and many other wild animals and birds now on the place.
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We can use unlimited quantities of Venison, Pheasants and Mallard Ducks raised on licensed preserves which can be sold in New York State throughout the year, but coming from points outside of New York State Preserves must also have the New York State License in order to be permitted to ship in this state and be sold
here. Let us hear from you.
HOUSE OF A. SILZ 414-420 West 14th St., NEW YORK CITY
Cable Address Telephone Silz’ New York ~ 5 ~ Chelsea 4900
Industry which has proven so profitable to breeders.
Read the Black Fox Magazine, the only paper of its kind in the world.
QUAIL WANTED
Bob White Quail for
SAMPLE COPY FREE.
Subscription $1.50 per year. Breeding Purposes
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WILD TURKEY EGGS
$15.00 PER DOZEN UNTIL MAY Ist $12.00 PER DOZEN AFTER, MAY Ist
These eggs are from true Wild Turkeys.
Orders filled in
the order in which they are received.
MARY C. WILHIE,
E are now booking W orders for eggs for Spring delivery from the following varieties of pheasants: Silver, Golden, Ringneck, Lady Amherst, Formosan, White, Mongo- lian, Reeves, Swinhoe, Versicolor, Impeyan, Soemmering, Manchurian Eared, Melanotus, Blackthroated Golden, Lineated and Prince of Wales.
Also Wild Turkeys, Japanese Silkies, Longtails and Mallard Ducks. S. C. Buff Orpington and R. I. Red Fowls. ,
We also offer for sale five varieties of Peafowl. Also Crane, Swan, and Fancy Ducks, and Doves of several varieties. Deer, Jack Rabbits. s
Send fifty cents in stamps for colortype catalogue.
CHILES & COMPANY MT. STERLING KENTUCKY
Member of The Game Guild Member of The American Game Breeders Society
COPIES OF THE GAME BREEDER WANTED.
We have a number of requests for back
numbers of The Game Breeder from people
who wish to bind the volumes and preserve |
a complete record of the More Game Move-
ment. Wewill pay 20c each for a number of copies of the following issues in good condition :
1914—May, July and December. 1915— May. 1916— January.
We wish to procure 10 or more copies of each issue named above. Readers who can fur- nish these copies will please send a post card to
The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York
Phone, 9286 Farragut
Bet. Broadway and 6th Ave.
Beaverdam, Virginia
FINE FURS
JOHN MURGATROYD Taxidermist
57 WEST 24th STREET NEW YORK
Finest Work at Reasonable Prices Call and See for Yourself
Plant Wild Rice Now— Attract the Wild Ducks
Wild ducks will nest around your property if they find the necessary natural food and shel-
ter produced by wild rice. Plant now and have a natural feeding ground that will ‘attract and hold wild ducks on your water next fall.
Wild rice is my specialty. Storage process approved by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Germinable damp seeds, now ready for shipment, Write for Prices and Information
on Planting.
CLYDE B. TERRELL Specialist on Development of Attractive Places for Birds, Game and Fish.
Dept. P-20 Oshkosh, Wis.
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Announcements inserted under this head in small type for 3 cents per word. . If displayed in heavy type, 5 cents per word. No advertisement accepted for less than 30 cents. Postage stamps accepted in payment.
THE GAME BREEDER
150 Nassau Street
New York City
LIVE GAME
FOR SALE—Rinegneck Pheasants, two years old. These
are my breeding stock birds and are pinioned. $5.00 per pair. M. R. CHEESMAN, R. F.D. No. 3, Murray, Utah.
SILVER, GOLDEN AND RINGNECK PHEASANTS Eggsinseason. J. M. SATTLEK, Antigo, Wis. it
WILD TURKEYS—For prices see display advertisement in this issue. W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Bucks County, Pa.
TWO WILD CANADIAN GANDERS=—-3 years old, un-
mated. Grand Large Birds. $10.00 each or will exchange one fora goosesameage. WILLET RANDELL, North Creek, N. Y.
WANTED— JAPANESE, VERSICOLOR AND Elliotts. MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK CO., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York,
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PHEASANTS, BANTAMS, PIGEONS, RABBITS. MAPLE GROVE PHEASANT AND PET STOCK CO., 43 Iden Ave., Pelham Manor, New York. at
300 RINGNECK PHEASANTS — ALL FINE, THIS year’s birds. For saleasa wholeorinsmall lots. Address LURAY ORCHARD COMPANY, Luray, Virginia. at
WE ARE BREEDERS OF PURE BRED CHINESE
Ringneck Pheasants and numerous fancy varieties.
Send for our price list of pheasants, land and water game birds, deer, elk, and fur bearing animals, AMERICAN GAME ASSOCIATION, Coronado Building, Denver, Colorado. 3t
SIBERIAN FUR FARM, HAMILTON, CANADA;
breeds Foxes, Martin, Mink, Skunks, Wild Geese, Ducks, Pheasants and Black Siberian Hares. Send 25 cents for Booklet on the latter.
PURE BRED WILD WATERFOWL AT FOLLOW. ing prices: Mallards, $3.75 per pair. Pintails, $3.25 per pair. Green Wing Teal, $5.00 per pair. Blue Wing Teal, $3.75 per pair. Also redheads, Gadwalls, Widgeons, anvasbacks, Spoonbills, at reasonable prices, for propa- gating and scientific purposes. GEORGE J. KLEIN. Ellinwood, Kansas.
LV MONTHS OLD PET BLACK BEAR, $75. For sale.
WILD MALLARD DUCKS—DR,. HEBER BISHOP, of Boston, Mass., will dispose of some of his pure bred Mallards at $4.00 per pair. These birds are from his estate at Clearwater Lake, Farmington, Maine. Address, Boston, Mass. ;
_HOYT’S CALIFORNIA PHEASANTRY, PRICELIST. FRED D. HOYT, Hayward, California,
GRAY STAR PHEASANTRY Breeder of all kinds of pheasants. Eggs in season, Pure brand, strong, healthy birds for sale. GIFFORD GRAY, 21 Ward St., Orange, N. J.
JOHN W. TALBOT, South Bend, Indiana. 2t.
FOR SALE—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the Pheasant family. Pamphlet with order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren Co., New Jersey. ; (xot)
QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND other animals, See display advertisement in this issue.
WM. J. MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas-
antry and Game Park. ‘
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS—,- A limited number for sale now—the surest way to start ~ breeding this species. We are the oldest and largest breeders of Canadas in this country. Black and White Swans, Wild Ducks, etc , forsale. WHEALTON WATER FOWL FARMS, Chincoteague Island. Va. A
40,000 EGGS FOR SALE.
40,000 Pure Bred Chinese, Ringneck and Mongolian Pheasant Eggs, for this season; will book your order now for April, May, June and July delivery; place your orders early and get the besteggs. Wealso have Silver, Golden, Reeves, Lady Amherst, Swinhoe, Elliott and Soemmerring Eggs, but no birds for salenow. Some Quail and Ducks, Mallards and Teal. WESTERN WASHINGTON PHEASANT BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, A, J. Park, Sec’y, 111 Columbia St., Seattle, Wash.
SIXTY VARIETIES THOROUGHBRED POULTRY. Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Guineas, Pheasants, Peafowl, Dogs, (Forty varieties Bantams.) Satisfaction guaranteed, F. C. WILBERT, Naturalist, Grand Rapids, Ne te 5 t
BELGIAN HARES AND FLEMISH GIANTS FOR sale. Ai stock. C. W. DIXON, 8612 Morgan Street, Chicago, Ill, { ; it
PHEASANTS—BREEDING STOCK AND EGGS FOR sale. Ringnecks pinioned, $7.00 per pair, $9.00 per trio. Goldens and Silvers $7.50 per pair, Eggs according to quantity during theseason, Orders should be booked now. Address DAISY FARM or H. C. CUTTING, San Lorenzo, California. It
5 VARIETIES OF PHEASANTS—WILD MALLARDS, WILD GEESE AND GAME. FOURTEEN VARIE- TIES OF STANDARD POULTRY, INCLUDING TURKEYS. ALSO ELK, LIST FREE. G, H. HARRIS, TAYLORVILLE, ILL, at
LIVE GAME WANTED
WANTED—BLACK SKUNK, MINK, AND OTHER
fur bearing animals, also different varieties of pheas- ants, and game birds. Quote prices and full description. ROBERT HUTCHINSON, Littleton, Colorado, 2t
RAHLMAN’S PHEASANT AND GAME FARM. Prices on application. Santa Ana, Cal.
PHEASANTS WANTED.
Between two and threé hundred field grown young ringnecks for breeding purposes. In application
particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and cocks and hens separately in such quantity for Fall
or Winter delivery. Address A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York,
In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX,
Pied Peafowl, Soemmerring, Cheer, Hoki and German Peacock Pheasants, Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels. Also Swinhoes; state price and number. R.A. CHILES & CO.. Mt. Sterling. Ky.
GAME EGGS
ENGLISH RINGNECK, PURE CHINESE AND
Golden Pheasant eggs, $3.00 per dozen. Silver, Reeves, Amherst and Mongolian, $5.00 per dozen. SIMPSON’S PHEASANT FARM, Corvallis, Oregon. at
PHEASANT EGGS, PER DOZEN: ENGLISH RING-
neck $3.00, Pure Chinese $3.00, Golden $3.50, Silver and Reeves $4.00, Mongolian $4.00. Reduction on 100 or more. Orders booked now. Address CLASSIC LAKE PHEAS- ANT FARM, Nehalem, Oregon. zt
FOODS
PLANT WILD RICE NOW TO BRING SWARMS OF
wild ducks next fa.l. Terrell’s seeds grow. Write for prices and information on planting. TERRELL, Natu- ralist, Dept. P-21, Oshkosh, Wis.
WILD DUCK FOODS
Wild duck food plants, and seed. Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Widgeon grass, Red head grass, Chara and other kinds. 5
There are hundreds of thousands of acres of water marshes where these, the best of duck foods, will grow and hold the game. Write and learn how to do it. WHITE’S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. Currituck Sound.
ACORNS
An excellent food for deer, pheasants and wild ducks. I can supply acorns by the bushel or in. large lots. Write for prices, including shipping charges. W. R. McLEAN, R. F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina.
BOOKS
BOOKS—*x Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Ginseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. y A. R. Harding. Price 60 cents each. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“LUMINOUS BODIES,” A VERY INTERESTING
and instructive volume, by Charles Hallock. Price, $1.00. Address: Sportsmen’s Review Publishing Co., 15 W. Sixth St.. Cincinnati, O.
“QUR BIG GAME,” BY D. W. HUNTINGTON,
contains portraits and descriptions of all American big game animals. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
‘OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS.” BY D. W.
Huntington. A practical book on wild duck breeding for sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“OUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D W. HUNT-
ington, contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in color. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York.
GAMEHKEEPERS
GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED | American game breeder with a 15 year experience wishes to raise 5000 ringnecks for a private party or State, and having an incubator and brooder plant. Apply to THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y,
HEAD KEEPER SCOTCH, WISHES A POSITION.
Small family, four years’ good reference from present employer, good reason for leaving. Experienced on pheasants, quail, wild turkey and mallards. Ten years’ references in this country. Apply J. C. E., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York, 6t
POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad, Expert on rearing Pheasant, Quail, Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man-
-agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of
field and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trapper of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager, J. H. W., care of ‘The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City,
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WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR
poultry farm, to finish my experiments in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent ; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex day old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not ; if fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer. demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game, 20 years’ experience in America and Europe. S. HERBERT, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York.
WANTED SITUATION—A GAMEKEEPER FAMIL-
iar with pheasant and poultry rearing. I have also had experience in general farming and can plan the planting for game, BRUCE LANE, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York. 6t
HEAD GAMEKEEPER—WANTED BY A THOR-
ough experienced man in raising all kinds of wing game, wildfowl, turkeys, etc., on a large scale, and the Management of very large game preserves both in Eng- land and America. One that can keep down vermin and show sport, Expert poultry man, understands incubators, brooders, etc., and preparing birds for exhibition ; raised over 3000 pheasants this vear. Apply to JOHN BRETT 289 Crosby St, Akron, Ohio, it
GAMEKEEPER.— SITUATION WANTED.—I can
furnish good English and American references. Thoroughly understand all the duties of a Game- keeper; can rear thousands of birds, and train dogs, &c. LI understand trapping and the control of vermin, and wish to get a place now so I can prepare it for breeding on a large scale next spring. Address J. H., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
TO RAISE GAME. Wanted a partner to raise game on a Sea island, A pleasant resort during the Winter. Write to the Owner, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York.
RINGNECKED. PHEASANTS — Three fine breeders, 2 years old, $15.00 per trio. A. E, BE Sherkston, Ontario, Canada.
trios YER
200 PHEASANTS WANTED-WILL TAKE EQUAL
number of cocks and hens. Send prices and age ot birds. R, A. MAXWELL, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
RINGNECK PHEASANTS, $5.00 A PAIR. GOLDENS, $10.00 a pair. Guaranteed strong and in the pink of con- dition for Spring breeding, Order now as I havea limited supply of birds. LILLIAN E, GALLUP, 2209 Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska. rt
REGISTERED AND PEDIGREED BLACK FOXES RUGGED PUPS BORN IN NATURAL CONDITIONS ON MOUNTAIN RANCH, GUARANTEED TO BREED. EVERY ONE OF OUR EIGHT FEMALES WHELPED THIS SPRING. WRITE FOR RECORDS. ae MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH, ONAWA,
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“THE RANCH BRED FOX,” THE BEST BOOK ublished on Fox farming. Tells all aboutthis wonderful industry. Price 2s5c, postpaid. THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE, 15 Whitehall St., New York,
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and insists upon fair dealing under a penalty of dismissal from membership and the loss of the :
right to advertise in the magazine.
There are very few complaints in a year, for the most |
part due to shipments of eggs. These have been uniformly adjusted to the satisfaction of the
seller and purchaser.
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BREEDERS’ CARDS
LIVE GAME, ELK, DEER, WILD
Turkeys, Quail, Pheasants, Ducks, and all other game. Eggs in season. See space advertise- ment.
W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Pa. Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS, PIGEONS AND EGGS.
Pheasants, Amherst, Silver, Gold-
en, Reeves, Mongolian, Swinhoe,
Versicolor, Ringnecks, Cochin
Bantams, White King Pigeons.
Eggs in Season.
BLUE RIBBON POULTRY AND PHEASANT FARM Davenport Neck, Phone 655, New Rochelle, N. Y. |
Member of the Game Guild.
REGISTERED BLACK FOXES, TROUT & HARES. Rugged pups, bred on highest ranchin America. 1917 Breeding Record. 8litters from 8 females. Also Mountain Brook Trout. Milch Goats. Belgium and Flemish Hares. BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH Onawa - Maine Member of the Game Guild.
FANCY PHEASANTS Cochin Bantams, Silkies Booklet Free Stock and Eggs Reasonable E. M. MENGEL Box 8-P, Auburn, Penna.
MALLARDS AND BLACK DUCKS. Guaranteed Pure Bred Wild Ducks. StrongestFlyers. Mal- lards: drakes, $4.00 each. Black $5.00 each.
F. B. DUSETTE,
Bad Axe, : Michigan. Member of the Game Guild. Do not write for prices or infor- mation. Send check. If birds do not please you
return them and your money will be returned at once.
SS He A ST OL SAU SRE AAU in writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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BOOK ON
DOG DISEASES And How to Feed
: Mailed free to any address by
America’s the Author ~ Pioneer H. CLAY GLOVER CO., Inc.,
Dog Medicines} 118 West 31st Street, New York
BREEDER OF FANCY PHEASANTS
Amhersts, Silver, Golden, Versicolor, Mongolian, Reeves, Ringnecks, Manchurian, Elliott, Swinhoe, Impeyan, Mela- notus, Soemmering.
' GRAY’S : GOLDEN % POULTRY FARM
Gifford Gray, Orange, New Jersey Member of the Game Guild.
Eggs in season.
DR. FRANK KENT ~ Importer Bob White Quail San Antonio, Texas.
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Book your orders now for early Fall and Spring delivery. Bank references.
Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS FOR SALE, RINGNECKS, SILVERS,
Goldens, Lady. Amherst, Prince of Wales, Gambels - Quail, Pearl Guinea Fowl. Orders for eggs taken. ROBINSON BROS., Aldershot, Ont., Canada, It
DOGS
POINTERS, SETTERS, BEAGLES AND RETRIEVERS. . : Thoroughly broken Pointers, Setters, Beagles and Retrievers for sale. Also thoroughbred registered Chesapeake puppies Dcgs boarded and trained. Telepbone 38M. Central Islip. THE HAWTHORNE KENNELS, Central Long Island, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild.
Islip,
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, of Berry, Ky., offer forsale setters and pointers, fox and cat hounds, wolf and deer hounds. Coon and opossum hounds, var-_ mint and rabbit hounds, bear and lion hounds. also Aire- dale terriers. All dogs shipped on trial. purchaser to judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or money re- funded. Sixty page, highly illustrated, instructive and interesting catalogue for ten cents in stamps or coin
AIREDALE TERRIERS. The genuine one-man dog,
Pedigreed, registered pups. Males $25.00. _ Females, $15.00. Guaranteed. Satisfactory, L, E, GALLUP, 2209 Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska,
foPRATT’S Peasant Food No. 3
is rich in ingredients composed of and supplying carbohydrates and frame - building elements
and which are very easily as- similated into the system.
Being a cooked food, it is part predigested. It is best prepared with hot water, and then allowed to cool, feeding it to the birds as the warm soft food.
_ The natural adjuncts to this highly vitalizing meal are
SPRATT’S CRISSEL
a perfect substitute for insect life and Ants’ Eggs and the purest form of meat obtainable.
SPRATT’S CARDIAC OR GAME SPICE
which contains valuable stimulating and appetizing proper- _ties and should be added to staple food during raw and inclement weather, and
SPRATT’S PHEASANTINA
A fine mixture of choice meals scientifically blended to supply the elements necessary for the formation of bone, body and muscle. It can also be used as an appetizer when the birds are off their feed.
We also manufacture the following:
SPRATI’S PHEASANT MEAL, No. 12 (For Pheasants, Partridge and Quail Chicks).
SPRATT’S PHEASANT MEAL No. 5 (For Young Pheasants).
SPRATT’S MAXCO (The most nourishing food obtainable).
SPRATT’S WILD DUCK MEAL, (The best food for ducklings).
Send 25c. for ‘‘Pheasant Culture.’’ ‘‘Poultry Culture’ sent on receipt of 10c.
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Game Breeders!
Use the Remington UMC Model 12 .22 Caliber Repeating Rifle for Exterminating Vermin
Model No. 12A “Standard” Grade
O one knows better than the breeder of game the losses | incurred through predatory, animals. - Vermin are a menace to wild life.
The .22 caliber rifle is really a -necessity on a game farm.
A good small bore arm with its comparatively inexpensive ammunition meets every requirement.
The Remington UMC .22 Caliber Model 12 Repeating Rifle is adopted probably by more sportsmen than any other small bore arm. Specifications: Chambered to take without adjustment .22 Short, .22 Long and .22 Long Rifle Cartridges; magazine holds 15, 12 and 11 cartridges respectively. .22-inch Remington steel, round barrel with 16-inch twist. Straight erip, walnut stock fitted with rubber butt plate. Weight 4% pounds. Also furnished chambered for .22 short only without extra charge. Special step rearfsight with finger piece, white metal bead sporting front sight. .
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FGAME E BREE
VOL. XII. MARCH, 1918 THE OBJECT OF THIS MAGAZINE IS
TO MAKE NORTH AMERICA THE BIGGEST GAME PRODUCING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
CONTENTS
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Survey of the Field—More Quail and Grouse—The Hen Now a U.S. Ward—Some Trapper—Bobwhite Quail in Washington— More Fish in Massachusetts—Ohio Game—Change from Deer to Antelope—More Rabbits—Mottoes for the Gun Room Wall —“Otherwise Than by Shooting ’”—-Stocking Streams with Food Fish. saat
Hunter or Husbandman Dr. James G. Needham Greatest Enemy of the Birds Edward H. Forbush Playing with Nature : Lillian E. Gallup The Game and the Farmer By the Editor The Prairie Chicken - - L. P. Turner The Prairie Grouse in Canada.
Notes from the Game Farms and Preserves -_ By Our Readers
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How to Detect Vermin By Its ;Work—Blue Jays and Game
— Blue Jays Beneficial— Pheasants and the Incubator —
Wild Ducks and the Incubator—Safe Trees—-A “Coon-
Cat” or a Nature-Fake--The Kingbird—Turtle and Hawk—
Raising Game for the Market—More Coons—Night Trapping. Editorials —— Food Abundance—-The Attitude of Sport — War
Governors—Game for the ace or Husbandman. Correspondence—Book Reviews.
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Mackensen Game Park
I carry the{jlargest stock in America of live ~ game birds, ornamental birds and quadrupeds. _
Hungarian Partridges
I am prepared to fill the largest orders
for these birds and for years I have filled practically all of the large State orders for-both ,
Partridges and Pheasants. seo
Pheasants
My Pheasant pens hold thousands of Pheasants and I am prepared to furnish these birds in large numbers to State de- partments. individual breeders and preserves.
Wild Duck Mallards, Black Duck, Teal, Wood-Duck. Pintails and other species can be supplied in large numbers at at- tractive prices. Also Mandarins and all other water fowl.
Wild Turkeys
I am now the largest breeder and dealer in Wild Turkeys and can supply these birds in good numbers to State Departments and preserve owners.
I carry the largest stock in America of ornamental birds and animals. My ponds now contain nearly 200 best Royal Swans of England. I have fine lot of the beautiful pink FLAMINGOES and the very large Europeaa PELICANS. Also STORKS, CRANES, PEAFOWL, fancy GEESE and DUCKS. My pheasant pens contain over a thousand Ringneck and fancy PHEASANTS. Ali stock is kept under practically natural conditions. I have 60 acres of land entirely devoted to my business. Can also promptly furnish BUFFALOES, DEER, LLAMAS, RABBITS, etc.
Orders booked during summer.
I have for years filled practically all the large State Orders and have better facilities for handling large orders than any other firm.
Write me before buying elsewhere—it will pay you to do so. Your visit solicited. I am only 80 miles from New York and 30 miles from Philadelphia.
WM. J. MACKENSEN Department V. YARDLEY, BUCKS COUNTY, PA. Member of The Game Guild
THE GAME BREEDER
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On the End of the Shell Box
For your convenience the makers of smokeless shotgun shells print on the end of each shell box the name of the powder with which the shells are loaded. When you buy shells look at the end of the
WWCHESTER % REPEATER LEADER ~
box. HERCULES | Smokeless Shotgun het a a
may be obtained in the 14 standard makes of shells in the list at the left. When you buy your favorite shell—it is surely one of these 14—ask that it be loaded with either Infallible or ““E.C.’? Smokeless Shotgun Powder. The end of the box will tell you at a glance what powder is in the shells.
Hercules Smokeless Shotgun Powders are used exclusively at the traps and in the field by many experienced sports- men. The preference of these men is based on the fact that they can depend absolutely on the uniform qualities of the powders—unusually high velocity, even patterns, and very light recoil.
Shoot either Infallible. or ““E.C.’’ in your favorite make of shell.
HERCULES POWDER CO. 77 W. 11th Street Wilmington Delaware
— 162. THE GAME BREEDER
OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS
“The subject is the development of a new crop—a flesh crop which has especial timeliness in view of the general exhaustion of our food supply. Mr. Huntington dis- cusses in the most practical manner the restoration of this crop of feathered game,
_ and from the standpoint both of the sportsman and the market gunner, wild ducks, it seems, can be raised as easily and cheaply as domesticated ducks, and with equally excellent financial results. The way to do this is described with estimates of cost and citation of experience abroad, where the deficiency of food supply has
-led to the discovery and elaboration of many remedies to which we have not yet been forced. Mr. Huntington's: book is illustrated with photographs, interesting alike to naturalists and breeders.”
WILLIAM BREWSTER
“*«Our Wild. Fowl and Waders’ is obviously an able, comprehensive and very <— interesting treatise on a subject which has hitherto received: but little attention from writers, especially in America, and concerning which naturalists, as well as sports- men, will, I am sure, be glad to be thus credibly and pleasingly informed.”
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‘“‘Mr. Huntington has given to the American people an admirable-treatise on the practical methods of making these splendid and desirable birds profitably plentiful. Ponds, streams and waste lands which do not pay the meagre taxes upon them can be’ utilized and be made to yield both handsome profits and good sport. This American authority on wild game tells the farmers and lane owners as this country how to do it.
CHARLES HALLOCK
‘The wild fowl book is valuable, clearsighted and scholastic. It is a direct appeal to sportsmen of common sense and generous behavior, and they will readily : absorb its comprehensive pages and act accordingly — and: live thereby.”
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means for the preservation in the future of our wild fowl and waders. . . . The illustrations are judiciously selected, interesting and materially add to the value of the volume.”
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VOLUME XII
MARCH, 1918
NUMBER 6
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. SURVEY OF More Quail and Grouse.
Many of our readers promptly sent us three new subscribers in answer to our circular letter asking them to help extend the circulation of the magazine and ‘to contribute to our experiment with quail and other American game. The pheas- ants and some species of wild ducks ra- pidly have become plentiful and any reader who wants these birds or even wild turkeys and their eggs can procure them. Pheasants and ducks have begun'to come to the New York markets in good num- bers from the progressive States which have intelligent game officers and the sale of these birds as food will tend to keep the business good. Our big experiment with ducks and pheasants had much to do with starting the industry with these birds.
We now propose to set the pace for the industry of quail and grouse breeding and it is highly important that these birds should be made plentiful in States which do not enact “fool laws’ putting them on the song bird list, thus destroying a profitable industry and sport at the same time. The State game departments, which prefer politics to game may save a few quail and grouse for the crows and other vermin, but they surely will not have the revenues from sport ‘which they now have when field sports are made illegal. A few breeding farms in every county will make it not necessary to put the game on the song bird list and we are quite sure we are the best friends the game departments have since our work will make the departments of great eco- nomic importance’ in the States which have intelligent officers. Everyone can
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shoot quail and grouse on Long Island, N. Y., because our members produce these birds on many protected areas.
We hope our readers who have not done so will get busy and send in their contributions to our experiment with quail and grouse. We especially wish to have a large number of people interested in this work who, we are sure, will enjoy saying, “we did it.”
The Hen Now a U. S. Ward.
Five million dozen eggs will be added. to the nation’s food supply because of an order which will be put into effect to- morrow prohibiting the killing of egg- laying hens at any time before May 1.
The hen will thus become one of the country’s war wards and it will be a crime punishable at the discretion of the food administration to wield an axe over her sacred head. Not only are farmers and others prohibited from killing her, but transportation companies are forbid- den to carry her, dead or alive, and deal- ers, wholesale and retail, must not inter- fere with her egg-laying proclivities.
The slaughter of roosters may continue as usual, and chickens which have not reached the egg-laying stage of life are still left to the mercy of the squab con- sumer.
It is the first time in the country’s his- tory that legal protection has ever been thrown about the hen.—N. Y. Tribune.
We hope the statement that “transpor- tation companies are forbidden to carry her dead or alive’ may be found to be erroneous. Otherwise we. will have an- other case of restrictions which may do more harm than good. The Game Con-
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servation Society, for example, wants a lot of bantams for its experimental work in food production. Since the society has decided to donate the food produced to hospitals it would seem that such indus- try should not be prohibited. Bantam eggs are not very desirable for food. We believe that with grain at present prices it would not pay to keep bantams simply to sell eggs for food. Should a farmer be compelled to feed grain to bantams which he cannot sell?
Some Trapper.
Miss Patsy Reese of Sierra County, California’s only girl trapper, walked nearly 200 miles to register for the sec- ond semester at the State University at Berkeley. | _ Before she left the summit of the high Sierras, where she makes her home, she shipped her expense money for the half year on ahead. It consisted of pelts of 2 lynx, 25 coons, 18 skunks, 15 foxes and 5 coyotes.
From the proceeds of their sale Miss
Reese will be able to pay her expenses
in the College of Journalism.
More Fish in Massachusetts.
All fish streams in this State (Massa- chusetts) are being stocked more heavily than usual and regulations governing fresh water fishing will be made as liberal as possible in an effort to reduce the high cost of living, William A. Adams, chair- man of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission announced to-day.
In addition to the usual work of fsh propagation, two innovations are being tried this season. The commission is artificially hatching smelt eggs to stock streams and has obtained thousands of salmon eggs from the Pacific Coast stfeams.
Bobwhite Quail in Washington.
Ira D. Light, game warden of Pierce County, Washington, writes: The bob- white quail were introduced about fif- teen years ago and liberated in different parts of the country and I am sorry to state that they have been a complete failure and have become almost extinct.
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I am constantly traveling through the county. and I have not seen a single bob- white during the past six months. liberated ten dozen pairs early this year but I have heard nothing’ from them and I am afraid that I never will, althongh we hope that they will get along and do better than the others have done.
[Quail introduced into strange country
often fall an easy prey to vermin. A good quail farm where quail are reared in protected
fields for sport and for profit quickly will ~
stock a good sized area adjacent to the game farm and those who wish quail for breeding purposes can obtain birds which are ac- climated.— Editor. ]
Ohio Game.
At a recent conference of the Ohio game wardens it was reported that the quail had been nearly exterminated by climate in the northern parts of the State but the pheasants everywhere seemed to
have survived. The superintendent of the ~
London hatchery said the pheasant was well able to take care of itself in the severest, winter.
- Mr. John R.-Gammeter, of the Por- tage Hights game farm, who rears thou- sands of pheasants, said the owl and the fox were the worst enemies of the game; the pheasant has demonstrated its ability to stand severe and prolonged winter weather and comes out right side up with care.
Since Ohio undoubtedly was one of the best quail States a few years ago we hope the sportsmen will not decide to let this bird remain on the song bird list and substitute the pheasants.. It is not a dif- ficult matter to protect quail by the proper planting of hedges and other covers,
foods and some inexpensive quail clubs. —
easily can keep the shooting good every year provided they deal fairly with the farmers and pay a small rental for the shooting as the quail clubs do in many
places where the birds are shot in good ~
numbers every season without fear of
extinction.
Change from Deer to Antelope. There has been some speculation in the
northern part of Arizona as to whether it
would not be a good plan to close the
season on deer and open the season on
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antelope, which has been closed for the past fifteen years. Every year marks a decline in the number of deer, while many of the range riders claim that there are around 2,000 antelope ranging in Coconino County, and that this condition justifies a reversal in the game laws. Wild turkey, however, are still to be had by the wily hunter, but are practically un- attainable to those who lack experience in locating and stalking this shy bird — Remington Live News Notes.
More Rabbits.
"In va recent report of the Binoeien Survey we are told that in a single coun- ty in Oregon about 75,000 jack rabbits were poisoned. We hope the poison did not reach the prairie grouse and other desirable foods. We believe it would be good business for the survey to point out the food value of the rabbits, the grouse, the quail and other game and to urge amendments to the laws encouraging the profitable production of all species.
The report about the work of the survey is as follows:
“Serious depredations by jack rabbits upon wheat, barley, oats, alfalfa and other growing crops and stacked hay necessitated continued efforts for their control in eastern Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Effective methods of poisoning the animals were demon- strated and successful campaigns in farming communities organized against them. This work was very successful and enormous numbers of animals were killed. In a single county in Oregon about 75,000 were poisoned at a cost of less than one-tenth of a cent each.
Cottontail rabbits have damaged or- chards, grain and truck farms, especially in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey, and advice and demonstrations have been given for “protection against them.
The European hare, introduced into New York some years ago, has increased and is spreading rapidly in southern New York and adjacent States, where it has done extensive damage to orchards. In- vestigations have been started to dis- cover methods for the control of this
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animal, which threatens to become a dan- gerous pest.
Will Can Rabbits.
The W. H. Dyer Company, operating canning factories in Evansville and Owensboro, Ky., has decided to can rab- bits as a war measure and to help reduce the high cost of living. Rabbits have not been canned previously, and Evansville will be the pioneer in this field. The country surrounding this city will pro- vide an abundance of rabbits for canning, it is believed. Business men in the Green River territory in Western Kentucky have agreed to provide from 50,000 to 60,000 rabbits yearly. Experiments al- ready have shown that canned rabbit is palatable and nutritious, and that the plan is feasible—W orld, N. Y.
Mottoes for the Gun Room Wall.
The American Field informs us that one of the numerous game protective as- sociations has put forth the slogan, “Sport for sport’s sake,” and will con- duct a drive in order to secure $1 each from 5,000 sportsmen. - Endorsing the idea, we have adopted the slogan and we
_will put the new motto up in the gun
room of our new shooting syndicate, with a few others. Our mural decoration will have the following:
Sport for sport’s sake.
Trap shooting for trap shooting’s sake.
More game and fewer game laws, for goodness sake, and God bless our home.
The last-named motto will be found of- ten in country houses, rented for shoot- ing purposes and we retain it since it lends a home-like appearance to the walls. No special charge for the idea.
“Otherwise Than by Shooting.” Nonsense.
We are surprised to see that the Mich- igan Commissioner advises in his report that the game breeders’ law should pro- vide that “ducks may be killed any month of the year for which such permit is issued, but if said ducks are killed by shooting they shall net be bought, sold or otherwise disposed of.”
Why should a State game officer who
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says his department is now wholly sus- _ tained by money received from sports- men be opposed to shooting? When shooting is permitted’a good part of the ducks depart, since they quickly be- come tired of the game, and these birds afford sport for all comers in the neigh- borhood and often the ducks are shot many miles away from home. We have had nearly a thousand ducks depart in a season and we have had many gunners thank us for the good sport set on foot or, more properly speaking, on wing. Since shooting is a great incentive to wild duck breeding and when sportsmen produce far more than they can eat the result is cheap game for the people to eat, the game commissioner seems to be opposed to the best method of filling the
markets with cheap game. We have said often that a State department should
represent all of the people and those who would like to have cheap wild ducks are in the majority. They have saved field sports in some countries when sport was attacked for the reason that they enjoyed: ‘cheap food. Michigan breeders can sell many wild ducks to sportsmen in other States (a small ad. in The Game Breeder will sell them all) where “the otherwise than by shooting” nonsense has been eliminated from the statutes, but why should a State game officer not favor a plan in- tended to keep many of the ducks in Michigan? They will sell for more alive outside of the State than they will when hatched for market. Let the sportsmen shoot and sport will stand the loss and send the food to the Michiganders to eat. _ The “otherwise than by shooting” non- sense only survived for one year when it was slipped into the New York breed- ers’ law. It disappeared. soon after the appearance in The’Game Breeder of a cartoon illustrating the sporting method of killing a mallard with a hatchet. We
will loan the cut to any Michigan paper’
on request. »
It is warranted to be effec- tive. |
Zoo Animals. There has been some discussion about the propriety of feeding ianimals in the
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Zoo large quantities of desirable foods at a time when food administrators are urging the people to save in order that we may win the war. Since the head keeper of the Zoo has collected over one hundred thousand dollars in order to secure more game laws we would sug- gest that sportsmen and game breeders will be well pleased to see, the fund used to feed the animals.
Stocking Streams With Food Fish. In continuing its plan to make every stream in the state a productive source of food supply, the State Fish and Game Commission, by a great distribution of fish from the state hatchery at Hacketts- town, is increasing the stocking of streams in every county, this fall.
The season now closing has been the ~
most successful since the opening of the state hatchery for the rearing of trout, salmon, perch and bass. The present “plantings” are chiefly of large trout of the brook, rainbow and brown species. Other varieties will be distributed later. Commissioners believe that the brown trout will thrive in many streams not suited to the brook trout or rainbow trout. .The brook trout needs clear cold water and the rainbows are great sea- runners and often work their way down — stream to the rivers and eventually to the ocean unless a dam intervenes. The brown trout, on the other hand, will not leave the stream in which it is in- troduced, except to enter some similar
“stream in search of spawning grounds. The adult fish weigh from six to ten pounds, with every ounce full of fight.
The trout and salmon from the hatch- ery are from six to fourteen inches in length when distributed. They are ship- ped by express in car-load lots in cans of iced water to South Jersey distrib- uting stations while in North Jersey they are carried from the hatchery ponds to the streams in big motor fish-cars
_Large and small-mouth bass will be dis-
tributed later in.the year, a large supply being available from the hatchery ponds - and from canals and city water reser- viors which the.state nets annually — Lakewood (N. J.) Times. ae
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HUNTER OR HUSBANDMAN.
‘Dr. James G. NEEDHAM,
Professor of Entomology and Limnology, Cornell University. ,
Extract from an address recently delivered before an audience of farmers at the
New York State College of Agriculture.
The assumption that all the wild life _ growing upon the land belongs to all the people, and that any one who can do so __is free to take it, is, of course, a direct inheritance from the day when all the game belonged to the king; when the
king could do no wrong. We, the people, -
have succeeded the king. We have ac- quired his rights and privileges—his right to kill, his right to overrun the fields of the farmer, his right to get something Bommennine Wola VE lL ee
We need now to recognize that the day of wanton exploitation is past, and that we have entered upon an era of ‘conservation during which we must live on the increase of nature’s products that
., our own hands have secured for us; no longer something for nothing, but every-'
thing for care and forethought and the . application of science to bettering the conditions of life.
The primary assumption should be’
that the region where farmers live is an agricultural community—not a howling wilderness or a hunting preserve. Hunting there must be to satisfy the human craving for sport—sport of a kind that is normal to the growing up of every youth, and that is a legitimate part of a man’s recreation. But hunting is, at best, _a Savage sport that is pursued with dan- gerous weapons; and it should be pursued in civilized society only in places set aside _ for the purpose. The farmer should pos- . sess his farm in peace. The part of the _ public that desires to hunt should have _ proper places provided, and these places _ should be publicly marked for hunting; and peaceful farms where the wild life is treasured should not have to be marked against it. -As there are public waters stocked by the state in which any one may fish, so there should be public game and forest preserves where one may hunt. The farmers want freedom from the
nuisance of the hunters who are merely
unite to secure it.
raiders and economic pirates, and should Every man’s farm <hould be his own, free from ravage by hunters, free from menace by guns. All its wild products should be in his own keeping, subject only to his neighbor's interests, rights and welfare. The farmer should be free to raise on his farm any kind of plant or animal without permit or license from any source. Such artificial barriers ought not to obstruct the path
of forward-looking agricultural enter-
prises.
The conservation measures that will best secure these ends are those which will protect and preserve the wild life in suitable places and provide hunting for the future; for men will hunt, and many of the farmers themselves desire this sport. The measures already before us that will go farthest toward removing the hunter from the farmer’s premises are these :
1. State game farms, where wild game may be propagated, for distribution to public and private preserves.
2. Reserves, where the wild life may be maintained—forest and game pre- serves.
There should be not only one great state preserve like the Adirondack State Park, but every county in the State of New York should have its own smaller reserve, made out of the waste land that is still cheap and available. There is land in every county of the State that would be of far more worth if put to raising timber and game. We _ have talked much about reforestation: we have practiced it little,
Portions of such public reserves should be kept as sanctuaries, free alike from the hunter, the lumberman and the engineer ; and in these every wild thing, not harm- ful to the public, should find a place, and should be let alone. These places would serve as centers of natural propagation
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and dispersal for wild game species; but
they would also keep from‘extermination '
many other things in which the hunter 1 is not interested.
They would serve the interests. of the public at large by preserving to future generations some of the wealth of life with which nature has endowed our coun- try. There are three important reasons why it shotild be preserved:
1. Its esthetic value. Many of the
wild things, both, plants and animals, are
interesting and wonderfully beautiful.
2. Its educational value: many of these things are important for teaching pur- poses ; and the youth has a right to know
what the native life of his native land was’
like; otherwise he will.not be able to
‘understand ‘its, early history.
: 3. Its possibilities of undeveloped eco- ABE values. We are only at the begin- ning of knowledge how to best utilize our natural resources. We should not exter- minate the wild species. We do not know what use the future will have for them. Though they are all products of the evo-
lution of the ages, they may be quickly ,
destroyed, as the history of the passing of the wild pigeon shows. Once gone, they are gone forever. the public has in keeping them is in the long run far more important than the in- terest of the hunter in- shooting or the farmer 1 in raising crops.
THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE BIRDS.
By Epwarp H. Forsusu,
State Ornithologist of Massachusetts.
AN mature cat in good hunting grounds kills, on an average, fifty birds a year. Kittens and half-grown cats do not catch many birds, but the old cat that wanders
off into the fields and woods is terribly.
destructive. Mr. William Brewster tells of an acquaintance in Maine who said that his cat killed about fifty birds a year. When asked why he did not get another cat, he said that it would be of no use, for they were all alike. Mr. A. C. Dyke writes that his family owned a cat which was well cared for and a particular pet. They watched it through one season and found that it killed fifty-eight birds, in- cluding the young.in five nests. Nearly a hundred _ correspondents’ scattered through all the: counties of the State report the cat as one of the greatest en- emies of the birds. The reports that have come in of the torturing and killing of birds by cats are absolutely sickening. The number of birds killed by them in this State is appalling. It is quite true,
however, that some cats do not kill many
birds, and that some intelligent or high-
bred cats may be taught not to kill any. Some cat lovers believe that each cat
kills on the average not more than ten
birds a year; but I have learned of two instances where more than that number were killed in a single day, and another where seven were killed. If we assume, however, that the average cat on the
farm kills but ten birds a year, and that there are two cats to each farm in Mas- sachusetts, we have, in round numbers,
seventy thousand cats killing seven hun--
dred thousand birds annually. si If we add to the cats kept on farms the
enormous number of village and city
cats, many of which have good oppor- tunities for catching birds, we shall see the chief reason for the great mortality to birds and their young about our vil- lages and cities. If cats are allowed
their liberty at night during the nesting
season, they, unnoticed, rob many birds’ nests. The cat is more dangerous to birds than any native mammal that roams
our woods, for it is nocturnal, a splendid
climber, a good stalker, a strong leaper, and is very quick and active. Unfortunately, the cat is only half domesticated and easily goes back to a wild state. If the dog loses its master it will soon find another, but the ma- ture cat is more likely to run wild. Thou-
The interest that .
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sands of these wild or half-wild cats roam the country destroying game birds, squirrels, field mice, chickens and any animal they can. master. The effect pro- duced by cats is convincingly shown where they have been introduced on is- lands and have nearly exterminated rab- bits, and greatly decreased the number of birds.
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John Burroughs says that cats prob- ably destroy more birds than all other animals combined. William Dutcher, president of the National Association of Audubon. Societies, considers the wild house cat one of the greatest causes of bird destruction known. He says that the boy with the air gun is not in the same class with the cat.
PLAYING WITH NATURE.
By Littran E. GALiup.
The Author,
It was while I was convalescing after a short illness several years ago that my enthusiasm became aroused at a little advertisement in the corner of a local paper—‘Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure.”
I wrote the Hercules Powder Com- pany, originators of the: little booklet “Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure” and I received their booklet together with a liberal list of names to whom I might write and secure eggs and stock.
I decided to try the rearing of pheas- ants from eggs, as I have always beer an ardent lover of nature in its every form and always admired its wild birds
and animals so this little booklet prompt- ed the idea that I might have these beau- tiful birds, enjoy them and also make a goodly profit beside the pleasure they afforded me by their presence.
Whereupon, I sent several orders and secured eggs from several dealers near home. By securing eggs from several sources I would have several varieties of the same stock fori the coming year. Of course I awaited the termination of the incubation period of twenty-four days with the keenest interest. I had set the eggs, 15 to each hen, under the lightest hens I had—Rhode Island Reds—which had set before so I could select the ones I knew would be good mothers. Many chicks are lost by nervous and fretful mothers, so I used considerable care in selecting the hens which were to mother the chicks.
After they were hatched—and I had a 90 per cent. hatch from the three settings —TI placed them in a divided cracker box until they were twenty-four hours old. This was covered at the bottom with sand and after the chicks came out from under the mother’s wing and began to show their appetite they had their first meal,
consisting of hard boiled eggs and bread
crumbs. They were fed five meals a day until several weeks old. Their drinking water should always contain the correct proportion of “Germazone” to keep the young chicks from contracting gapes or suffering from other internal disorders. When the chicks are two weeks old their rations are increased and varied and
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they are fed a little oatmeal, in addition to a little chick food or small grain.
It must always be remembered that the birds eat very sparingly and care must be taken not to overfeed; keep them a little hungry, it is better than overfeed- ing.. . Out of my first year’s settings of 45 eggs I raised 36 birds and their cost was so little that it would really be difficult to furnish an exact amount of their feed expense. I fed them with the chickens and allowed such a little bit more than
the usual portion that. the expense in © rearing them was practically nothing. .
Most of the eggs fed them were infertile eggs taken from the incubator after the first testing and their food while young is mostly hard boiled eggs. 3 _ Of course there are many ways to rear pheasants successfully, but I have found
during my years of experience that this — one is simple and efficient. A little ground _ raw meat is also a very tempting food
while the birds are growing and a variety is always relished by the birds as they are delicate eaters.
An occasional apple cut into small por-.
tions, or lettuce, sliced raw potatoes and: |
fresh berries are also very suitable food.
When the birds are old enough to start to fly, they are put into movable pens and each pen moved daily to give them a clean
- pen—they must be kept absolutely clean -“
—this gives them fresh ground from
which they can secure many tiny bugs and-
insects.
When they start to get their plumage a small portion of red or cayenne pepper
on hard boiled eggs each day for several. weeks will give their plumage a full, deep —
color. So many birds reared in captivity have a faded appearance because the bird lacked the necessary food for the coloring of his plumage.
When the birds are old enough to leave the hen and care for themselves, they are put into permanent quarters; a pen as large as you can afford for them, and in this they are wintered and left until after the next breeding season.
The pens are always cleaned thor- oughly each year and replanted with small - grain so the birds can feel at home when
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they are put into new quarters. One should keep their environment as close to their natural one as possible. This keeps the birds healthier, and I might add here, I have never been troubled with any disease and I think it-is because they have had ample opportunity to care for themselves.
Chicks that are hatched early in the season seem more vigorous, that is, it has been my experience, as they are strong poults before mites bother any of the birds. For this trouble I use a mite pow- der dusted under the wings at frequent intervals until the birds are free from them. All birds have more or less trouble with these summer mites and birds raised in captivity. should be watched closely. If steps are taken be- fore they. get bad no loss in ‘young birds will result, but if great care is not taken death will surely result as the.baby- birds are. very delicate and mites‘take. all the vitality from the young birds. ,~
“Some form of shelter should’ be pro- _vided for the matured birds inthe winter
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My birds roost on cornstalk stacks, which I have put in their pens for that purpose, and when Nebraska’s’ wind blows a gale the pheasants seem per- fectly content to hide on the lee side of the stalks or under the small growth of underbrush in their pens, away from the direct exposure of the winds and cold.
I have always had good success in dis- posing of my stock, the first year’s sur- plus was disposed of locally, but as one’s stock increases one must advertise. It is generally a conceded fact that things that are not worth advertising are not worth buying. :
When the breeding season opens the . birds sell very readily for from $5 each
especially in climates with severe win-
to $8.50 per pair, but in the fall of the
year the birds can be purchased for $5 per pair from some local breeders.
_I have-always realized a goodly sum each year from my surplus stock of birds, but this is secondary to the great amount of pleasure I have derived from watch- ing them grow and the pride I have in. keeping them.
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THE GAME AND THE FARMER.
By the
A few years ago Professor L. H. Bailey, director of the State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, N: NS in a letter to the editor of The Game
Breeder, said: Z “Looking at the subject’ from the outside it has appeared to me for years that the most unsatisfactory, chaotic and uncorrelated of all laws relating to the open country are those that have to do with game. I have been more, or less in touch with our own State Legis- lature on other business for some’ years, and I have always been impressed with the: in-
adequacy of the kind of game legislation that’
is nearly always on foot. If you can bring some system out of the game law matter you will render a great service. The sportsman
is ordinarily set over against the farmer. The-
two are realy antagonistic. I think the only real solution is in some way to bring about a community of interests between the two, or
at least to eliminate the antagonism. In other words. I think that the farming interests must ’
be distinctly consulted in the game laws, if we are to have game laws that will serve the interests of the people ‘and which will stand the test of a reasonable length of titne. * * * I am sure that your fundamental idea that the farming interests should be considered game protection laws is -sound.”
Later Professor Bailey asked us to write an article on the game laws for his Encyclopedia of Agriculture, which we did.
The influence of Professor Bailey and many other prominent men who have looked at the subject not only “from the outside” (Professor Bailey in his letter said he was not a sportsman) but also from the inside, has resulted in the suc- cess of what is popularly known as the “more game” movement advocated by The Game Breeder and calling for a prac- tical and intelligent handling of the game and the bringing about of the community of interests between the farmer and the sportsman.
We believed that the best way to han- dle the subject was to encourage amend- ments to the laws intended to promote game breeding on the farms for profit as well as for sport. All of the naturalists quickly endorsed our idea, that the game must continue to vanish, no matter how many laws we made for its protection
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provided shooting be permitted amd no game breeding be encouraged, since shooting, unduly, is an additional and fatal check to the increase of every spe- cies when it is not properly looked after. © All species have many natural enemies and all at certain periods are decimated by climate; and as civilization increases there are losses due to many other causes ; prominent among these are fires, farm machinery, telegraph and telephone wires, fences, the loss of proper covers and foods, the déstruction by dogs, cats and rats.
Many prominent men have written us discussing various phases of the subject. All are in harmony with our fundamental ‘idea that the farming interests must be considered. All, without exception, have endorsed the idea that the way quickly to: make game abundant and keep it so is to ‘commercialize it.
The farmer cannot be expected to give his time and his money to the production of a game crop so long as the results of such industry surely will be the attracting of a horde of licensed trespassers who
will shoot up his place and too often will injure and destroy farm property.
Sportsmen. who deal fairly with the farmers, paying shooting rentals and for any land planted especially for the game, easily have made the game abundant and they keep it so by controlling some of its worst natural enemies and by proper pro- tection and feeding in winter. Clubs with smal] dues -should sell some of their abundant game to help pay the cost of production.
Under amendments to the laws favored by The Game Breeder there are many clubs which have an abundance of pheas- ants, ducks and deer; some have quail and grouse; there are many game farm- ers who sell thousands of birds and eggs every season. The farmer’s jnterests have not been properly looked after, however, in many States, because, absurd as it may seem, the laws do not permit the profitable increase of the best birds
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for the farms, the grouse and the quail. In many States, recently, the legislatures have been stampeded into hurriedly enact- ing laws prohibiting the killing of these birds for terms of years or forever. The farmers have willingly favored such laws because they know that they put an end to the trespassing sportsmen who too often have disregarded the posted notices of the landowners. The farmers evidently depreciate the value of their farms when they secure laws which prevent even themselves from having some of the most desirable foods which the farm produces. They make it impossible to profitably ‘produce and sell the game and for repu- table sportsmen to pay them a shooting rental which in many States now is a substantial source of additional revenue to many farmers.
Where laws are enacted prohibiting shooting the farmers should always see that the principle of our game breeders enactments be applied to the quail and the the grouse. The farmer who gives the game a little attention can, under such laws, easily have all the game he can eat and quickly he can sell stock birds and eggs at excellent prices; or he can rent the shooting to agreeable people who will pay an amount equal to or more than the entire taxes on his lands and buildings for the right to shoot a part of the game produced.
We have visited many farms in States where the farmers’ interests have. been distinctly consulted and where the com- munity of interests between the farmers and sportsmen, to which Professor _ Bailey ‘refers, have been established and the farmers and sportsmen of all classes are well pleased with the result: game is always plentiful.
It seems surprising that some of the agricultural States, notably Kansas, have not enacted laws permitting the farmers to breed and sell game and eggs. and to rent the shooting if they so prefer. New York alone will soon be sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to farmers. who sell game. Already many thousands of - dollars pass through Kansas on their way to Colorado and other. States where it is not criminal to produce game for profit; and the amount of money which will go
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to the Kansas farmers for grouse and quail will be surprising as soon as the farmers who have the power to do so put some common sense in the game laws.
We refer to Kansas especially since it is one of the few States which are far behind the times and which have not enacted laws encouraging game breeding. It is one of the best States for this highly profitable industry. Quail and grouse can be bred in vast numbers very inex- pensively and there is a market for every bird at excellent prices. Quail will sell readily for $24 per dozen; grouse for $60 per dozen. The eggs will sell for $4 and $6 per dozen in large lots and we can see no possible reason why the Kansas farm- ers should not have the money. We saw a substantial check recently which came back from a Kansas farmer in a letter stating he was not permitted to ship the birds he. had reared by. industry. The money was. sent to a farmer in: another State. It would. be far better for the farmers to sell the game they easily can produce than to enact laws preventing them from even eating the desirable food. We predict when the farmers in Kansas and a few other backward States under- stand what they should do they will act quickly and we are quite sure the legis- lator whe will oppose them will soon re- turn to private life.
Often we have insisted that sport has nothing to fear from an abundance of game produced by proper methods. For the most part the farms are posted against shooting. In many States shooting is prohibited for a term of years or forever.
It is absurd to say that the laws should
prohibit the farmers from producing all species of game for profit, or in order to rent the shooting if they would prefer to get a revenue from their game in this nianner as thousands of American farm- ers do in the States where the sporting politician is not permitted to say what a farmer can do, or not do, on his land. The best sportsmen in the country have endorsed the “more game” idea of The Game Breeder and are friendly to laws permitting | game farming. The sporting politician easily can be defeated in Kan- sas and in all other States where he needs the attention of the farmers.
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THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN—DESTRUCTION BY MAN.
L. P. TuRNER
At a glance, therefore, it is plain that the prairie chicken has had an unusually heavy struggle for existence during the past few seasons. This struggle has been constant for at least two years. But if the birds’ natural foes have increased and combined to besiege it from all sides to such a degree as to render its repro- ductive powers. and protective instincts temporarily futile, these are nothing as compared with man’s unremiting on- slaughts. ’
Under normal conditions grouse show
a rapid natural increase. By normal con- ditions is meant that perfect balance which undisturbed Nature maintains in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. When Nature’s laws, in this respect be- come disturbed, the results are usually injurious or fatal in one or more of her many spheres of organic life. And man is usually the great disturber.
_ A growing scarcity of wild game must be expected in close proximity to inten-
_sive settlement and. increasing centers of
population. Adverse conditions stem the reproduction of wild life. As the haunts ‘of game become encroached upon and hunted more and more each year, and as the characteristics of the country become
changed, many forms of wild life are
pushed back, and move to more congenial retreats, or become exhausted. And here we have, beyond a shadow of doubt, the
direct solution of the chicken scarcity in many thickly settled districts. Being
a bird of thinly wooded country and small prairies interspaced with scrub, and being inclined to hug the wild tracts in preference to the cultivated lands, the sharp-tailed grouse gradually retires as the country is subjected to the axe and the plough. For this primary reason, the sharp-tails are not found as plenti- fully in many districts as formerly, nor is it likely that they will ever be. On the other hand, the pinnated grouse be- ing a lover of the open country, the tree- less prairie, and above all, the wide, cul-
tivated fields bordered by grasslands, holds his ground or flees from one open tract to another, until no longer able to avoid the encroachment of the increas- ing army of hunters, he succumbs to the vanishing point or entirely disap- pears. Except in very severe weather, the pinnated grouse rarely seeks refuge in the thick woods, as does the sharp- tail. Thus, the pinnated grouse is in far greater danger of being exterminated in his chosen haunts, if subjected to heavy pressure, than is his sharp-tailed cousin of the wild and wooded country. And it would appear that the only panacea when birds become abnormally scarce in the set- tled districts is an occasional period of immunity from all hunting to enable them to become re-established. Under such protection, and it must be absolute, the pinnated grouse, if not overpowered by a preponderance of natural foes, or con- tinuous adverse weather conditions, should increase; but the sharp-tail will not likely come back in any great num- bers from the borders of his beloved wilderness to districts whose growing un- congeniality drove him out.
In spite of stringent laws to the con- trary, a price hung above the prairie chicken’s head for many years in this Province. Only the scarcity of the birds_ in the past two years has closed this market. Not.long since, grouse by scores and hundreds flowed through the chan- nels of a secret traffic. Hundreds of homes in. Winnipeg and elsewhere an- nually enjoyed their quota of, bought birds; and only in the last few years has it been impossible to purchase them in the restaurants, hotels and clubs. Wher- ever the birds could be killed in profit- able numbers there were men to do the killing and spirit them by devious ways to the always-ready purchasers. Hun- dred upon hundreds of prairie chicken and partridge succumbed annually to this illegal hunting and marketing, and the authorities were practically helpless to
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unearth all but a few flagrant cases. Lack of co-operation of the public, of
sportsmen’ and of, others: interestéd vin:
game protection, has been, as it will al- ways be, the greatest obstacle in the way of our force of game wardens render- ing the most adequate service.
Co-incident with the gradual ‘decrease in prairie chicken in the settled parts of
the country, there has been an enormous increase in'the number of people who an- nually go hunting. With improved weap-
ons and ammunition, and aided in scour-_ ing the country by the use of motor cars,
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Miri J: P: Tiber of Seas Mani- toba, writes that he prepared the book- let on the two species of prairie grouse (from which we published quotations) at
the request of the Minister of Agricul-:
ture. The object was to stir up public opinion toward the better protection of these birds and’to hold up the hands of
the government in ‘proposed legislation to that end. -The booklet was distributed ©
throughout Manitoba and-the Canadian west and had a good reception. Aided by the publicity given the subject of this and others means, the government saw the advisability of placing on the statutes an indefinite closed season for all grouse. As we say in thé States the grouse has been placed in the Eau bird class.
_Mr. Turner expresses disappointment because we only printed part of his book- let. We had already printed more of it in our November number, which appeared before he became a reader of The Game Breeder. We take pleasure in printing in this issue what he says about the destruc- tion of grouse by man.
Mr. Turner in his letter, after inform-
ing us about the securing of an indefinite
closed season, says: “The question of suitable game-bird prop- agation was then taken up by.us, in the hope
that governmental and public support could
be secured toward re-stocking and permanent- ly Se sobas our grouse covers with ample
GROUSE IN CANADA.
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_ people have turned afield to hunt in ever-
increasing numbers, and i in many districts
have ‘all but: succeeded in exterminating
the chicken.
By natural inclination the prairie chick- en frequent the more open territory which is now pretty well occupied by settlement; and in this entire area the ~
“present outlook is that, aside altogether
from the destruction of birds by natural | causes, a continuance of existing condi-
‘tions will mean that the birds will as on decreasing, as has been the case in —
the older settled States to the south.
birds for all public requiremnts. This matter The way must be paved. by -creating a wider public support and a stricter recognition of the game laws among our cosmopolitan population, before —
we can launch out upon the re-stocking plan; _ ' otherwise our best efforts must be of no avail.
But we will succeed.
I have been connected tlie practically every movement for the better protection of game birds and animals in Manitoba for nearly twenty years, and I can assure you I have had a fairly complete knowledge of the countless obstacles to be overcome forced upon me in that time. Not the least of these has been the exasperating and selfish indifference of the man with the gun and the legislator with the ©
' vote; and most of all the meat-hunting pro- _Clivities of the thousands of settlers in our - midst from older lands.
Before adequate — propagation of our native gatne can be even attempted we must make this latter class amenable not only to the law but to our good ~ This we are gradually doing. It is work for the stout-hearted and tactful men who have.a perfect knowledge of local con- ditions. It cannot be achieved from a dis- tance, though oe) advice is Sincerely cov- eted.
In your letter to Mr. J. A. MacDonald you state: :
“T believe it would be a very easy matter to j make the prairie ‘chickens tremendously abundant and to keep them so provided the subject be handled by proper methods.” theory in this regard commends itself. As for it being a “very easy matter” to put oe effect even if hand'ed by “proper methods” I fear another thing. I think I could convincé you of this were you to become a resident of Manitoba for say twelve months. But, in
going along hopefully toward. the ultimate at-
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tainment of our dreams, I trust we may have the benefit of your personal experience in those parts of the United States where the “proper methods” have brought the “tremen- dous abundance” we desire.
I was not a little disappointed to find in the copy of The Game Breeder forwarded by Mr. MacDonald that portions of “The Prairie Chicken” (together with two of the cuts) had been printed in a way that, to the casual reader, if not to all, must needs give an en- tirely false impression. I take it that, although portions only have apparently been culled for
publication in your journal, you have perused _ the entire context.
In your December article Over my name, entiled by you “The Enemies of the Grouse of the Open Country,” you have entirely eliminated my remarks as to man’s destruction of grouse. In the face of your editorial comment this is most mislead- ing. I pointed out in the “Prairie Chicken’ that man was the outstanding destroyer. I stated that “a growing scarcity of game must be expected in settled regions.” In these con- tentions I was incontrovertibly correct—the Game Conservation Society not withstanding. I regret that you saw fit to make it appear that I claimed the crow, goshawk and coyote to be the chief enemies of our prairie grouse, whereas these were cited by me as accessories to man as a destroyer. My claim that as por- tions of the country become settled by inten- sive farming and the consequent destruction of natural covers and nesting grounds takes place, a scarcity of game must be expected, is a fact supported by ail rational authorities on game protection. May I ask why the heath hen has come so dangerously near extinction, and this in the face of frantic efforts, for many years, to save it? Settlement and its consequences must give the answer again. Editorially you, remind me that whereas I noted the divergence of opinion as to the cause of the decrease of prairie chicken, and whereas I anticipated the controversy which must surround anyone who might attempt to arrive at a conclusive verdict, you were ready to come to the rescue by telling me upon re- quest why the grouse vanish. Why not volun- teer the reason? Had you printed my com- plete treatise in one issue of your journal or even had you shown that portion printed in your December number as being part of a continued article, there would have been no grounds for the attempted “rescue,” since my article deals pretty fully with every phase of the scarcity of grouse, including prairie fires and loss of winter food, and brings out the fact that the grouse have chiefly vanished from the destructive methods employed by man. Your editorial quotations from Darwin merely corroborate what I stated in my bro- chure, but are used in a sense to put me right.
Again, you state editorially that “We have never seen any occasion for the wonder, spec- ulation and argument to which Mr. Turner refers. Mr. Turner is wrong in saying there
is no one who would care to assume the risky
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honor of deciding what is the matter with the American grouse.” Please let me say again, that were you, Mr. Editor, free to spend twelve months here, you would be nonplussed
- by the complexity of arguments on the sub-
ject; and I venture to say that neither The Game Breeder nor its editor, nor the Game Conservation Society are at this present mo- ment in a position to “forward a solution which. will amount to a perfectly satisfactory demonstration,’ if asked to explain the fact that whereas as late as three years ago native grouse of all kinds were plentiful in the huge area of the Riding Mountain Preserve in Manitoba, where no gun has been carried, no trapping has been done and no hunting has occurred in six years, only one single ruffed was observed.
[We cannot say what disasters of the past are due to, in any case, without having the necessary facts. Had there been a game keeper on the ground he would have told to a certainty what happened. Probably nature’s balance was upset in some manner, most likely by an overabundance of natural enemies when compared with the game. This may have been
due to shooting at some period, possibly at a
time when it was supposed not to occur. What we are able to demonstrate is the proper method for making any area so safe and at- tractive that no disasters will occur of suffi- cient importance to put an end to the shoot- ing. Our quail breeders shoot year after year, in some places thousands of birds each season. The grouse breeders in Scotland shoot thou- sands of grouse every season and the only serious trouble we have heard of was due to an over-abundance of game which resulted in disease. Some of the big Hungarian breed- ers can shoot many partridges and also sell thousands alive for propagation every season. The methods by which such abundance is maintained are well known and we have plenty of literature on this subject written by cap- able pens.
Having successfully produced several thou- sand wild ducks on a place we were obliged to make the pond, and having enjoyed the shooting, we feel confident that it would be an easier matter to make the prairie chickens tremendously: abundant and to keep them so provided the subject be handled by proper methods. Mr. Turner should forget all about the “lobbying stage,’ to which he refers. This would indicate that he expects to make the grouse plentiful by some more legislation. If he will form a grouse club and let us send him the game keepers he soon will see the grouse plentiful and the shooting good on any suitable area, even quite near a city or town. Since thousands of game birds can be shot year after year on places quite near New York, in a region where one-tenth of the en- tire population of the United States resides, no good reason can be assigned why thousands of birds should not be produced and shot on any suitable area in Manitoba. We were
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obliged to send to England for some of our
ducks, when we made our first experiment, on account of our game laws. There are thousands of breeders in the United States to- day who sell wild ducks and eggs.
The law Mr. Turner secured no doubt will prevent any one from getting grouse or grouse eggs in order to apply the proper methods and no prairie grouse can be purchased in Eng- land. Certainly no one can be expected to make any area safe and attractive and to keep it so if the result of his industry must be a fine or jail sentence if he“fires a gun.
We happen to have a library of real “ra- tional authorities” and‘ they all agree that a scarcity of game is not “to be expected’ in settled regions when “proper methods” are ap- plied; on the contrary they point out how to offset and overcome the difficulties due to “in- tensive farming,” the destruction of covers, nesting ground, etc. We have plenty of fake authorities in America who know nothing about game and the causes for its increase and decrease and these will be found too often trying to get it into the “lobbying stage” pos- sibly because they do not know. enough to know that laws never can produce game abundance or good shooting, in populous re- gions. These are often the easiest places to make game plentiful because there. are not so .many natural enemies, where many reside on the,land they are more easy to control.
We know all about the Heath Hen. ‘When it was in charge of a mounted warden it did not do very well. Later, when some proper methods were partially applied it increased in numbers rapidly; still later, when the man in charge was obliged to ..be away. on other
‘duties, a fire resulted in the loss of most of the grouse and made much of the area where they occurred unsuitable for their: existence. Our game keeper once stopped a similar fire and saved our grouse and quail.
As soon as Mr. Turner is ready to apply the “proper methods” we shall be pleased to ‘send a plan for the preparation of a prairie showing where the hedges of wild rose and other covers and foods should be planted, and we can send the men who will produce the grouse in big numbers every season! The cost of producing grouse should be much less than the cost of hand-rearing a similar num- ber of pheasants, because the grouse should be bred wild on safe and attractive areas where they will find most of their food.
We fear the kind of authorities Mr. Turner seems to rely on are those who collect vast sums to keep the birds in “the lobbying stage” and these people always get what they go after—“more laws.” -We have so often gone
after “more game” sitccessfully, in spite of °
the efforts of such “authorities,” that we feel fully competent to give advice. If you don’t believe what we say read‘some of the -books writen by real authorities who have filled their works with common sense stories about how
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game of all species has been made plentiful in populous regions.
Mr. Turner, as we said, pointed out enough reasons why the grouse vanish. It can not stand any shooting and all the other causes of destruction at the same time. The books say remove or control some of the natural causes for destruction and the shooting becomes good and highly proper. Our objection to Mr. Tur- ner’s efforts is that they result in the prohibi- tion of sport and in destroying the incentive for any one to apply “proper methods.”— Editor. ] :
The numerous gate protective asso- ciations will advise Mr. Turner to have many quiet game refuges created on the prairie in the hope that by some means they some day may be stocked with prairie chickens. 1 ae
We advise him to buy a few stock birds and eggs, hire a game keeper (we can send good ones) and look forward to some lively shooting every August.
The same mischief makers who would advise Mr. Turner to see that the pump gun be prohibited and later the double barrel and single barrel and later to put the grouse on the song bird list will ad- vise him to hope that his descendants may have some shooting because he quits. We ~ think the descendants will fare better if Mr. Turner will take our advice and go in for more game and fewer game laws and for some lively shooting every sea- son: Some small fortunes are gathered in New York by‘those whose advice Mr. Turner relies on, but the more gameists have their money invested in ganie and eggs. Our. people can now take: orders for 10,000 and up.
| More Song Birds. — Nevada places the quail, the dove and the plover on the song bird list.
It would seem absurd to, enact a law prohibiting the farmer from having an axe in his possession in order to stop his chopping off the heads of his chickens. It seems to us equally absurd to say
that a game farmer or shooting tenant
can not shoot the game produced with pump guns, double barrels, singles or any old guns. eas:
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NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES.
How to Detect Vermin By Its Work.
Good game keepers when game birds, young and old, and eggs are destroyed often are able to say what species of vermin is doing the damage before they see the culprit.
' Upon one occasion a keeper asked the -editor of The Game Breeder for traps, saying the owls were taking his ducks and pheasants. When he was asked how he knew the owls were doing the damage he replied, “every vermin leaves its signs.” The heads had been torn off of the dead birds.
Owen Jones, the talented author of “Ten Years of Game Keeping,” writing about owlis, says: “I had shifted a batch of pheasants to covert, which an assistant was to look after. The man came to me the morning following the bird’s first night in covert and said there must be stoats on the war path, for he had found a bird with its head off. I went to investigate. There was no doubt about the bird’s head being off, and the ‘flesh was picked off the neck, which told me that the crime had not been com- mitted by stoats. The body of the bird lay at ‘the edge of the ride, and-at dusk I set a trap to it, leaving instructions that it was to be thrown at daybreak next morning, if necessary, so as not to catch the pheasants. When I saw my assist- ant’s face beaming with friumph, I asked him how many stoats had been caught. He ‘replied: ‘“Ne’er a one; but we’ve bin and ketch’d the devil”—who turned out to be a long-eared owl. And no more pheasants were decapitated.
Blue Jays and Game.
Owen Jones says, “In one season, in one wood, I lost over two hundred pheas- ants’ eggs, their shells (each with a neat hole through which the contents had been sampled) remaining in the nests. I came to the conclusion that it was the work of jays, and rightly, for as soon as I had trapped a pair of jays to pheasants’ eggs my losses entirely ceased, at which I was not sorry.” Rabbits’ eyes or sheeps’—
in fact any sort of eyes—he says—are very attractive baits for jays, provided the trap is skilfully hidden. But the best bait that I know of is a piece of the yellow fat from the interior of a fowl.
Blue Jays Beneficial.
A judicious thinning of hawks and magpies is quite enough to satisfy the demands of any sportsman, and their ex- tinction is bound to react to the detriment of the selfish few. In many parts, too, jays are getting comparatively scarce, though I am glad to say that, like stoats and weasels, they are too cunning ever to be wiped out by fair means.
No sane keeper would wish to be with- out a sprinkling of jays in his woods, for he has no more vigilant and useful sentinels. In a. wood where there are jays, neither cat, nor fox, nor man can stir without being spotted and ~pro- claimed. Jays also take a somewhat un- called for delight in mobbing a barn-owl should it get abroad in the daytime.— Owen Jones.
Pheasants and the Incubator.
Many pheasant eggs -have been ‘suc- cessfully hatched in incubators by Dun- can Dunn, superintendent of the New Jersey State game farm.. Mr. A. R. Miller, superintendent of the State farm, Brownville, N. Y., also, has: been suc- cessful in rearing pheasants hatched in
incubators. During the, last season he raised about 1,000 pheasants in this manner.
Wild Ducks and the Incubator.
Since tame ducks are hatched in in- cubators and reared in. big . numbers there would seem to be no good reason why the eggs of wild ducks should not be hatched profitably in incubators; in fact, they have been on.some game farms and preserves. Mr. Dusette of Bad Axe, Michigan, using a mammoth incubator, hatched nearly 2,000 eggs of mallards and black ducks one season.
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make some experiments with black duck
eggs and possibly teal. and: other -wild
fowl, using incubators at its experi- mental farm. Some of the members of _ the society also will experiment with several species of wild fowl in this man- ner. The results of these experiments will make interesting reading for our readers, no doubt. aie
Safe Trees.
Very curious facts about the qostercnce of lightning for certain kinds of ‘trees have been collected by scientists in some foreign.countries. It has long been no- ticed that oaks are more frequently dam- aged by lightning than beeches. As a partial explanation it has been suggested that the smoother leaves and bark of the beech, by producing a uniform wet- ting of the surface in a, storm, may cause lightning to reach the ground from such a tree with less damage than in the case of.an oak. But the statistics just - referred to indicate that the beech is comparatively exempt from lightning strokes. district, fifty-six oaks, about twenty firs and three or four pines were struck by lightning, but not a single beech was struck, although the beech was actually the most abundant tree in the district, out- numbering the oaks almost seven to one. It has been further suggested that this furnishes a practical hint as to what kind of tree to take shelter under in a thun- derstorm, that is, if there are any beech trees available for the purpose.
The Kingbird.
In these days, perhaps, it would be bet- ter to write about the man-of-war bird than any other, but as kings figure in
the present fighting and the kingbird fig- »
ures in the fighting all the time, a word or two about him may have a place in the stricken field.
The scientists call the kingbird Tyran- nus tyrannus, doubling up on the tyran- nical significance of the thing because this bird of ours tyrannizes over other birds, but it is grateful to say that his peck- ing pugnacity restrains itself in the cases of birds smaller than himself.
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There are some good friends of the
_kingbird’ who: will tell you that the tyran-"
nus of his name is used in its extremely ancient significance, which was, that of ruler rather than tyrant, but the kingbird is a tyrant, nevertheless, as one can find
out by asking any crow or hawk which:
flaps or sails within the domain of this. : guardian of the fields.
Some country folk call the kingbird ie bee martin, because he occasionally in his. insect-catching life snaps up a bee. The kingbird loves the orchard. There, while his mate is covering the eggs, he takes. to a tree-top to look over the landscape and the skyscape. When a hawk or a crow comes in sight the kingbird is off for a battle in which he does all the fighting. Occasionally he takes a ride on the en- emy’s back for a yard or so, pecking his hardest to make his victim. exceed the speed limit.
The farmers like the kingbird, hecates while he is about the chickens are safe from those pirates of the air, the sharp- shinned and the Cooper hawk. There are kings and kings. The days of some of them, we hope, are numbered, but long live Tyrannus tyrannus !—Chicago Even- ing Post.
A “Coon-Cat” or a Nature-Fake? We shall be glad to hear from some of
our Maine readers about this news sent- -
in a clipping to The Game Breeder.
The so-called “coon-cat,’ which is common all over Maine, is held by natives to be a. cross between the cat and the raccoon. Biolo- gists ridicule this belief; nevertheless many . half wild cats in Maine have the typical rac- coon tail with short forelegs, pointed snout and long hair.
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_ Turtle and Hawk.
In a despatch tg the Evening World, N. Y., from York, Pa., “The fable of the hare and ‘the tortoise” is surpassed. ©
Miss Mabel Griest, walking through a field, noticed a bird in the grass frantical- ly beating its wings. Approaching she found it to be a hawk with one leg se- curely caught between the jaws of a tur-~ tle. The girl struck the prisoner with a stick, killing it.
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More Coons.
More coons are being taken in Texas than ever before according to the fol-
lowing ee sent to The Game dreeder -.* «- ae! ee Marshall, sree Feb. 16.—Coon skins are
bringing wealth to the negroes of East Texas.
The hunting of these animals is now a com-.
_ mercial pursuit instead of being merely a sport.
The skins are how selling for $2.50 to $3 each, instead of 25 to 35 cents, as they were oah) a few years ago.
_ Coon hunting is so profitable that many.
farmers are unable to keep their negro labor- ers. kill as many as ten coons in a single night. Although trapping is the favorite method of
capturing the animals, the coon dog is still .
used extensively. The swamps around Caddo Lake and extending into Louisiana are over- Tun with coons. Their habitat, however, ex- tends throughout all the wooded Bo uoE of East Texas.
Hundreds of negroes and many atin men. have established camps in the more likely localities. The skins are assembled at the dif- ferent railroad shipping points, where they find a ready market.
_ Raising Game for the Market.
In many parts of Oregon there are un- cultivated places that might be used to good advantage in raising deer, elk and other wild animals. There is no reason why deer or elk cannot be handled much the same as domestic animals. According to the tagging law, which was passed at the last session of the legislature, deer or elk, when raised in captivity, can be sold in market the same as a sheep or a calf is sold.
A deer recently sold in one of the Port- land markets according to the tagging law attracted wide attention and brought a good price. It also was the cause of a large number of complaints coming from hunters who did not know of the tagging law, but who thought the game laws were being violated.
A very profitable industry might well be started, especially through the Wil- lamette Valley, in rearing game birds for market and for breeding purposes. A farmer who can make a success at rais- ing turkeys can readily raise Chinese pheasants. The démand for pheasants is very large. Oregon is known through- out the United States as the home of the
It is not unusual for a negro to trap or,
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Chinese pheasant. Orders for these birds come from far and wide. For table use the Chinese pheasant brings a price of $1.50, while a chicken of the same size will sell for half the amount. For breed- ing purposes these birds retail from $4 to $6 per pair.
The demand for Chinese pheasants and other game birds is much greater each year than can be supplied. If some of our energetic farmers could only be in- terested in the matter, there is no rea- son why our markets and hotels could not be supplied with pheasants through- out the year just as they are supplied with chickens.
It is a very easy matter to govern the marketing of these birds by the tag- ging system and their rearing in large numbers would mean an attractive re- source to. Oregon.—Oregon Sportsman.
Night Trapping.
A reader said to the editor not long ago that he knew he had plenty of rats and other vermin about but he was afraid to set traps because he knew his young chickens and turkeys would get caught.
He will find a useful hint in reading what Owen Jones says in the note “How to Detect Vermin” in this issue. He set the trap at dusk and ordered it sprung at daybreak if necessary. It turned out not to be necessary since the game en- emy was captured. Many traps can be set safely at night, the time when game enemies do the most damage, and sprung in the morning before the game is liber- ated or before it is astir if it be wild | bred.
Most amateurs do not use nearly enough traps. The traps are very cheap and since their use is followed by an abundance of both hand reared and wild bred game we would strongly urge our readers to use plenty of traps.
Pole Traps.
We again advise our readers to set their traps for hawks and owls and crows on high poles and in tall trees and not on fence posts and low branches which are frequented by quail and song birds which should not be destroyed.
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Mr. Turner, whose story about the Prairie Chicken is continued in this number, seems to think we have misun- derstood his argument about the prairie chicken and the causes for its disappear- ance. Mr. Turner has cited abundant causes for the disappearance of the grouse. His booklet seems to us able and thorough. Our difference is one relating
to the remedy—the restoration of grouse _
and shooting. He succeeds in putting the grouse on the song bird list forever. We favor making it quite worth while for any one to have an abundance of grouse for sport or for profit. Mr. Tur- ner’s ideas on this point are those of the old style game protectionist. Our ideas are those of the modern more-gameist. We have tried the “more game” plan in - so many places that we are sure it works well. Game always is plentiful. The people have some to eat. _
FOOD ABUNDANCE.
Our readers will find some suggestions about good places to go rabbit shooting in the extract. from the report of the Biological Survey. Now that there is so much talk about food scarcity we would think brer rabbit might be re- duced in a better way than by poison. Make the food a commercial proposition and it would seem that the destruction of rabbits otherwise than by poison might
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become effective. It is gratifying to know that we have some-kind of food which is abundant.
THE ATTITUDE OF SPORT.’ —
All intelligent sportsmen have en- dorsed the “more game” idea or at least are not inclined to oppose or obstruct the movement. The tremendous circulation of the booklet on ‘Game. Farming for Profit and Pleasure,” written by the edi- tor of The Game Breeder for the Her- cules Powder Company, brought the sub- ject to the attention of practically every sportsman in America and the enthusiasm. of many evidenced by their letters, and the quiet acceptance by practically all sportsmen, of the ideas advanced, indi- cate that the rank and file are prepared and willing to have “more game and fewer game laws.” : .
The Hercules Powder Company per- formed a big public service when it published its booklet on game farming, not only for the sporting public but also for the farmers and all who would like to see game abundant and cheap in our markets. As an advertising “stunt” the successful campaign of the Hercules Company takes first rank in the won- derful field of modern advertising.
WAR GOVERNORS.
During the Civil War some of the State governors became prominent on ac- count of their activities in the right di- rection and became noted as “War Gov- ernors.” Governors who at present are not afraid of the political influence of their game wardens and the game poli- ticians have a rare opportunity to become noted as “war governors” if they will speed up the production of game as food. Although even the food administrator at Washington seemed to shiver a little at the idea in a letter sent by one of his underlings in answer to a suggestion on these lines and possibly he may favor the political activities intended to create a national game police force which no doubt may make a record in arresting and fining food producers, as some State officers recently have, we are convinced that a statesmanlike governor has noth-.
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ing to fear in advising the farmers and _ the sportsmen, not accepted for war serv- ices, to produce all the game they can and to donate a part of their crop to the Game Conservation Society for the hos- pitals.
The governor of Massachusetts and the game department of that State will appear as shining lights when contrasted with the governors and the game depart- ments of such States as Kansas and Alabama, which States can not contrib- ute a feather to our hospital donation. Indiana had a war governor, if we re- member rightly, during the Civil War. We believe there will be something do- ing in Indiana now, since there are some game statesmen in that State who, no doubt, will go to the front as the game politician retires, if we are not mis- taken in our guess.
GAME FOR THE HOSPITALS.
A lady member of, the Game Conser- vation Society wrote that she proposed to send half of the game she produced this year to the committee of the society which will provide game for the hospi- tals which may entertain soldiers and sail- ors returning from abroad. The entire crop of game produced on the game farm _which will be operated by the Game Con- servation Society will be donated to such hospitals. In addition to this a good part of the game produced by a shooting syn- dicate, also conducted by members of the society, will be donated.
The annual dues of members of this new syndicate have been made $52, or $1 per week, the idea being to demon- strate that good shooting can be pro- vided for this amount. The syndicate will be managed by a board of directors made up of members of this society who have had practical experience in the Game Breeders Association and other successful shooting enterprises.
The number of members in this syn- dicate is limited to 100 and any member of the society who wishes to join it can send his application to The Game Breeder.
Since it seems evident that the list soon will be filled and that there will be a wait- ing list, it is probable that the society
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will take an active interest in the for- mation of other clubs or syndicates next year.
We will soon issue a request to all of of our members to donate some of their game to the hospitals after the shooting. We suggest that all good breeders set at least a dozen eggs in anticipation of this call in order that they may contribute. We believe very small donations from those of our members who are willing to “do their bit” will provide all of the game that will be needed and we believe all good breeders will take a patriotic in- terest in what the society has under- taken. If the society does (we are quite sure it can) furnish a large amount of game to the hospitals we believe the re- sult will be to demonstrate that “more game’ is far more desirable than “more game laws.”
HUNTER OR HUSBANDMAN.
The article with the above heading by Dr. James G. Needham of Cornell University, printed in this issue, is ex- cellent and timely. It will’ do much to expedite the “more game” movement. As we have pointed out often, there are vast bays and public marshes, vast and uncultivated areas and mountain areas where the public can be permitted to shoot, and there should be public shooting parks or refuges for game as Professor Needham suggests where un- der proper regulations anyone can shoot during the open season.
Shooting on the farms without the owner’s permission and without the farmer getting proper compensation for the game he produces is quite another matter. “The farmer should possess his farm in peace.”
One of our objects has been to open up some of the posted farms for shooting where the farmers want the money.
Professor Needham well says:
“The farmers want freedom from the nuis- ance of the hunters who are merely raiders and economic pirates, and should unite to secure it,. Every man’s farm should be his own, free from ravage by hunters, free from menace by guns. All its wild products should be in his own keeping, subject only to his neighbor’s interests, rights and welfare. The farmer should be free to raise on his farm any kind of plant or animal without permit
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or license from any source. Such artificial
barriers ought not to obstruct the path of for-"
Ward leorae agricultural enterprises.”
‘ He should rent the shooting or not
rent as. he chooses.
The New: York State calene of Ag- riculture announces a course of instruc- tion in conservation and game breeding in which all members of our Game Con-
servation Society and all readers of The »
Game Breeder will be much interested. We would point out, however, ‘the’ fu- tility of teaching any one to breed quail or wood duck or any of the most de-
sirable species of game, which most need:
the breeder’s attention, so long as the laws provide close seasons for such food and rio one is permitted to take, eat or Sell a bird. The matter of first impor- tance is to amend the laws so that the breeding and sale of all species of game may be a legal industry. Why should the college teach the youth of the coun- try to become criminals?
Professor Needham’s idea that the wild products on the farm should be in the farmer’s own keeping; that he should, in fact, own the game within his boun- daries and raise it profitably easily can be formulated and enacted as a proper amendment to the game laws, provided those who propose to lecture on game
breeding will join the farmers in a re-:
quest for such legislation. The far- mers should unite and see that the laws be promptly amended so as to permit them to own the game on-their farms and it will be a highly profitable crop.
CORRESPONDENCE.
One We Finished. The Game Breeder:
I am in receipt of notice for my re- newal of The Game Breeder. Kindly cancel this, as I do not desire the maga- zine any more. Your attack on the En- abling Act has finished me. C. M. O.
' This is the only letter we have received in opposition to what we regard as a serious legal absurdity. We asked the young lady who has charge of the subscription department how “many new subscriptions came in the same mail. ‘There were eleven. The letter was dated the 8th and the report for the month to the date of the receipt of the letter was 73 subscriptions. It would appear therefore that
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the editorial policy of the publication is not causing it to run behind. The writer of the unique and remarkable letter probably does not understand that it is not proper to dele- gate the crime making power to those who are to execute the laws when made and that criminal laws relating to game should be writ-
ten like all other criminal laws in simple lan-
guage defining the crime and fixing the penaity so all may know what the law is. We are quite sure if any one were to ask him to bound the area where the dove is a migratory bird and where it is not a migratory bird, within the Wnited States, and to say where any one is likely to be seized by an.amateur U. S. game policeman and where he is not likely to be apprehended for shooting a dove, he would be unable to give the boundary or name the penalty. We knew this at one time but we have mislaid the pamphlet ‘containing the nonsense, .and there is nothing about :this in
' the United States statute book where all other
crimes are listed. It should be remembered that only a few regulations have been made thus far. The number of absurdities will be rapidly increased; no doubt, and the officers
seeking to.make a, case in- order to, prove their
prowess and importance, will no doubt find © sportsmen easy marks for fines and possibly jail sentences when the mystery has been amplified.
We do not publish the writer’s name since we are sure he will live to be ashamed of say- ing that we, “finished him.”
Another “Good For You.”
.In a letter received recently a prom- inent New York,lawyer says the dean of
sportsmen, Charles’ Hallock, was right in
saying that we had won our fight for “more game” and the encouragement of profitable game breeding. He wishes to join the dean in saying: “Good for you!”
We are gratified at the numerous tes- timonials which come in the mail and sometimes by phone. What pleases us most is the fact that most of the State game officers are contributing members of the Game Conservation Society and say they will favor the prompt enactment of breeders laws in the States which are somewhat behind the times.
The fact the National Association of Audubon Societies, the North American Protective Association and the American Protection and Propagation Association have endorsed our policy and the “more game” movement will aid much in work- ing out the details needed to make North America the biggest game producing country in the world.
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BOOK REVIEWS. THE Moose Boox; Facts and Stories
from Northern Forests. By Samuel Pa a6. E. P. Dutton & Co., 1916. $3.50.. Pps
iioach the moose is the largest .of our American game animals, and is the giant of the deer family, we have never before had a book devoted solely to its natural history as viewed by the sports- men. The book treats not only of the American moose but also its old world relative, where it is known as the elk. The first and larger part of the volume is devoted to our American form and that of the old world less fully. The moose is
discussed from almost every standpoint, |
as indicated by: chapters on its history, its geographic range (illustrated by a map), habits, methods of hunting, hunt- ing equipment, heads and horns, moose meat as food, future prospects of the moose, names, mythology and supersti- tions. The account of the old world elk is handled in a similar manner. It was an excellent idea to discuss the species as a whole. There are so many interest- ing items in a book of this character that it is difficult to select some for mention. Several recipes are given for cooking moose meat. The muffle, the large nose and upper lip is a rare dish, known mainly to a few fastidious hunters. Merrill states: ‘‘Like the beaver’s tail it is a useful substitute for a hand, and like the beaver’s tail it is. the choicest tidbit which the animal can furnish for the table.” The author calls attention to the desir- ability of some one making a weekly pho- tographic record of the development of the antlers, and a full record from youth to old age. One writer claims that the food influences the character of antler growth. We are told that the full grown bull moose is “six feet or more in height atthe withers.” Very little reliable in- formation is recorded of the live weight of mature animals. Moose are thought to live for 18 or 20 years. The cows usu- ally produce one or two calves, rarely three. The moose feeds upon twigs, leaves, bark, moss, lichens and in the summer on various water plants, or fresh water “salads.” Burnt over land, with one or two seasons of fresh growth,
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is a favorite feeding ground. That sev-
eral kinds of deer may be kept in the same forest is advocated as follows: “He (the moose) consumes little of the forage on which the white tail subsists, and still less of the moss and other things which support the caribou. The three species of deer live in harmony in the same woodland home, practically ignoring each other’s existence” (p. 224). Very little success has attended the efforts made to breed moose in captivity. It is to be hoped that renewed efforts will be made to make this a success,
The book bears evidence of careful preparation and accuracy and for that reason it seems strange-to meet with the reverie where the bear (during the hiber- nating season) attacks the moose when harassed by deep snows. The author states that on Isle Royale, Lake Supe- rior, a few moose are found, but he does not state on what authority. When the reviewer was upon the isle in 1905.he did not learn of its certain presence. there. The book is a valuable one and will find a welcome in the libraries of many sportsmen. —
Charles C. Adams, N. Y. State College of Forestry, Syra- CusesdNemy 4s. Us S.A.
Camouflage—The Art of Make Up.
The use of this word in connection with military affairs has tended to cre- ate the impression that it has a hidden military meaning. This is contrary to the facts, as it is simply slang, borrowed from the French stage. Its real meaning is “make up.” In its original use it applies where
“Little grains of powder, Little dabs of paint, Make a girl of forty Look like what she ain’t” —Du Pont Magazine.
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Something for Senator. Senator James Hamilton Lewis was telling somebody that he had half a no- tion to cut off his famous whiskers. “T suppose,” suggested John Sharp Williams, “that you'll get a taxidermist - to mount them for you.
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FENCES | FOR GAME PRESERVES
The accompanying photograph shows one of our Non- Climbable “RIOT ”’ fences, erected by us, with our indestructible steel fence post 8 feet high, surrounding the Yale Bowl Field, New Haven, Conn.
This fence held in check 80,000 people who attended the Harvard- Yale Game, November 25th, 1916, and 60,000 people who attended the Princeton-Yale Game, November 13th, 1915.
We have this fence and many other excellent designs. It will be to your advantage to secure our Catalogue, that shows many of the best erected fences in this country; also tells about our posts in detail; how to erect a fence; how to paint the fence wire to keep it” from rusting.
Become acquainted with our fence building system. It will save you many dollars aud a great deal of worry. ~~
Fences for every purpose, with either straight or non-climbable post, tennis court back stops, etc., erected by our trained men anywhere.
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R. H. SIDWAY GRAND ISLAND, ERIE CO., N. Y. ; Pheasant and Mallard Eggs for Spring delivery from extra fine, healthy non-related birds.
My birds are raised for my own shooting and are very strong on the wing. Member of The Game Guild. Member American Game Breeders Society.
Land for Game Preserve and Country House Near New York For Sale. —
About three hundred acres on the Mianus River in Greenwich, Conn., may be purchased at present for one thousand dollars per acre. Suitable for a magnificent country house site, with surrounding forest like that of English estates. A mile of beautiful trout stream and a newly made lake of several acres on the place. Owner will not divide the tract. Its peculiar value rests in the combination of forest, cliffs and stream in a tract of this size so near to New York and to the social centers of Greenwich and Stamford.
Deer and many other wild animals and birds now on the place.
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RINGNECK PHEASANT HEN, 1917 hatch, -$5.00.
Matured Golden, Silver and Crosses of Amherst and Golden, $1000 per pair. 1917 Silver and Crosses, $3:50 each, These birds have been field raised by me. F.A. W.SHAW, 565 West 192nd st., New York, N.Y. 2t
RINGNECKED PHEASANTS — Three fine trios breeders, 2 years old, $12.00 per trio. A. E. BEYER Sherkston, Untario, Canada.
FOR SALE—Pheasants and eggs. Everything in the pheasant family. Pamphlet with order free. BUCK- WOOD PHEASANTRIES, Dunfield, Warren Co., New Jersey. (rot)
QUAIL, PARTRIDGES, WILD FOWL, DEER AND other animals. See display advertisement in this issue.
WM. J. MACKENSEN, Proprietor Pennsylvania Pheas-
antry and Game Park.
CANADA WILD GEESE AND THEIR GOSLINGS— A limited number for sale now—the surest way to start breeding this species. We are the oldest and largest breeders of Canadas in this country. Black and White Swans, Wild Duoks, etc., forsale. WHEALTON WATE FOWL FARMS; Chincoteague Island. Va. 2
BELGIAN HARES AND FLEMISH GIANTS FOR sale, Al stock, C.W. DIXON, 8612 Morgan Street, Chicago, Ill. . it
5 VARIETIES OF PHEASAN TS_—WILD MALLARDS, WILD GEESE AND GAME. . FOURTEEN VARIE- TIES OF STANDARD POULTRY, INCLUDING TURKEYS. ALSO ELK, LIST FREE, G. H. HARRIS, TAYLORVILLE, ILL, 4t
LIVE GAME WANTED
PHEASANTS WANTED.
Between two and three hundred field grown young ringnecks for breeding purposes. In application particulars please quote prices for pairs, trios, and cocks and hens separately in such quantity. for Fall or Winter delivery. Address A. M., care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York. coisa
WANTED—WHITE PEAFOWL, EITHER SEX, Pied Peafowl, Soemmerring, Cheer, Hoki and German ~ Peacock Pheasants. Ruffed Grouse, and White Squirrels. Also Swinhoes; state price and number. R. A. CHILES & CO., Mt Sterling, Ky. :
GAME EGGS |
. 40,000 EGGS FOR SALE. f
40,000 Pure Bred Chinese, Ringreck and Mongolian Pheasant Eggs, for this season; will book your order now for April, May, June and July delivery; place your orders early and get the best eggs. Wealso have Silver, Golden, Reeves, Lady Amherst, Swinhoe, Elliott and Soemmerring Eggs, but no birds for salenow. Some Quail and Ducks, Mallards and Teal. WESTERN ASHINGTON PHEASANT BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, A, J. Park, Sec’y, 111 Columbia St., Seattle, Wash.
I WILL SELL A FEW DOZEN WILD MALLARD
duck eggs at $3.50 perdozen. Eggs from same flock were very fertile last year. J. B. FOOTE, Frederick- town, Ohio. 2t
RINGNECK EGGS, $20. GOLDEN, SILVER, $30. Mallards and thirty varieties poultry, $10. English
Setter Dog. HARRY SWINBURNE, Delhi, lowa, 2t
FOR SALE—PURE BRED CHINESE PHEASANT eggs, $3.50 per dozen. E. J. SHUMAKER, Jefferson, Oregon. 2t
PHEASANT EGGS, TWO-FIFTY PER THIRTEEN. ELLERMAN, Yankton, S. D. : 4t
PHEASANTS EGGS—CHINESE, $3.50; RINGNECK, $3.00 ; Mongolion, $5.00 dozen, LINN RINGNECK RANCH, State-licensed and reliable, Albany, Oregon. 2t
ENGLISH RINGNECK, PURE CHINESE AND . Golden Pheasant eggs, $3.00 per dozen. Silver, Reeves, Amherst and Mongolian, $5.00 per dozen. SIMPSON’S PHEASANT FARM, Corvaliis, Oregon. at
PHEASANT EGGS, PER DOZEN: ENGLISH RING-
neck $3.00, Pure Chinese $3.00, Golden $3.50, Silver and Reeves $4.00, Mongolian $4.00. Reduction on 100 or more. Orders booked now. Address CLASSIC LAKE PHEAS- ANT FARM, Nehalem, Oregon,
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In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours for More Game.”
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FOODS
StaTe Game Fern, June 21, 1917. Mr. C. B. Kern, 10 East Main St., Mount Joy, Pa. : Dear Sir: — Please book our order for 100,000 Meal Worms, to be shipped in lots of 10,000 every 3 days, start- ing at once. Trusting that we may rely on punctual ship- ments, we are, Very truly, STATE GAME FARM, 12
wild ducks next fal. Terrell’s seeds grow. Write for prices and information on planting, TERRELL, Natu- ralist, beot, +-21. Oshkosh, Wis.
WILD DUCK FOODS
_Wild duck food plants, and seed Wild Celery, Sago Pond Weed, Wi-geon grass, Red head grass, Chara and other kinds.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres of water marshes where these, the best of duck fcods, will grow and hold the game. Write and learn how to do it. WHITE'S GAME PRESERVE, Waterlily, N. C. Currituck. Sound, ’
ACORNS
An excellent food for deer, pheasants and wild ducks. I can supply acorns by the bushel or in large lors. Write for prices, including shipping charges W.R McLEAN, R. F. D., Eagle Springs, North Carolina
BOOKS
BOOKS—£* Hunters, Trappers, Fur Traders,
Taxidermists, Fishermen, Sportsmen, Campers, Prospectors, Fur Farmers, Ginseng and Golden Seal Growers, etc. A. R. Harding. Price 60 cents
y each. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y
“LUMINOUS BODIES,” A VERY INTERESTING
and instructive volume, by Charles Hallock, Price, $1.00. Address: Sportsmen’s Review Publishing Co., 15 W. Sixth St.. Cincinnati, O. Z
“OUR BIG GAME,’ BY D. W. HUNTINGTON,
¢ ntains portraits and descriptions of all American big game animals. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
_ ‘OUR. _ WILD FOWL AND WADERS,” BY D. W.
Huntington. A practical book on wild duck breeding for sport and for profit. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., N. Y.
“OUR FEATHERED GAME,” BY D. W. HUNT-
ington, contains portraits of all American game birds and shooting scenes in color. Postpaid $2.00. THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nascau St., New York.
GAMEKEEPERS
WANTED — POSITION AS GAMEKEEPER OR
care-taker of Shooting Lodge, by married man. Life experienced in game breeding, cause of leaving present situation Lieutenant going to Europe and closing his shooting lodge and deer park. Age 36 years. Can fur- nish first-class references. Seven years present place . G. SIMPSON, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St.
N. Y. City.
- GAMEKEEPER— POSITION WANTED. SKILLED gamekeeper with good references desires position. WM. STRANG, 2147 Blackrock Ave., Unionport, N.Y.
WANTED — POSITION AS MANAGER ON GAME
farm or shooting preserve. Long experience raising game birds. Understand raising and training shooting dogs, and trapping vermin. A S. B.,, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York, N. Y.
GAMEKEEPER—SITUATION WANTED American game breeder with a 15 year experience wishes to raise sooo ringnecks for a private party or State, and having an incubator and brooder plant, Apply to THE GAME BREEDER, 150 Nassau St., New York, N, Y.
HEAD KEEPER SCOTCH, WISHES A POSITION. Small family, ur years’ good reference from present
employer, good reason for leaving. Experienced on pheasants, quail, wild turkey and mallards. Ten years’
references in this country. Apply J. C. E., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York. 6t
POSITION WANTED ON A SHOOTING PRESERVE
by a practical and reliable Manager, widely experienced here and abroad. Expert on rearing Pheasant, Quail Partridge, Wild Turkeys and Wild Ducks, etc., the man- agement of Incubators, also a handler and trainer of field and high-class shooting dogs. A capable man to show sport, excellent trapper of vermin, a reliable and trustworthy all around manager. J. H. W., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St., New York City.
WANTED, POSITION ON GAME PRESERVE, OR
poultry farm, to finish my experiment, in electrifying day old game and poultry, which stimulates their growth 100 per cent ; also to finish my apparatus, that will sex day old birds and will tell whether an egg is fertile or not : if fertile, the sex of the bird when hatched out. I am a lecturer, demonstrator, and writer on poultry and game, 20 years’ experience in America and Europe. S. HERBERT, care of Game Breeder, 150 Nassau St.. New York.
WANTED SITUATION—A GAMEKEEPER FAMIL-
iar with pheasant and poultry rearing. I have also had experience in general farming and can plan the planting for game. BRUCE LANE, care of Game Breeder 150 Nassau St., New York, er ty
GAMEKEEPER.— SITUATION WANTED.—I can
furnish good English and American references. Thoroughly understand all the duties of a Game- keeper; can rear thousands of birds, and train dogs, &c. Lunderstand trapping and the control of vermin, and wish to get a place now so I can prepare it for breeding on a large scale next spring. Address J. H., care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
MISCELLANEOUS
a a a ee eee eee FREE FOUNDATION STOCK, FURNISHED TO
raise Rabbits, Cavies or Pigeons. Send dime tor par- ticulars and paper. Young's Tanning Compound, easily applied to any skin. Large can $1.00, trial can 50¢, Tattoo Ear Marker $1.50. Ear Tags 30¢ per dozen. Gibson’s wonderful Rabbit Book $1.00. Cavy Book 50¢. Squab Culture, a recognized authority on raising pigeons for profit, $1.00. NATIONAL FANCIER & BREEDER, 335 South Kast Ave., Oak Park, III,
EXCHANGE— EASTMAN FOLDING POCKET
Kodak No. 3, Model A, 344x4%, carrying case and por- trait attachment. Want Pheasants. L. L. KIRKPAT- RICK, 100 E. Depot St., Greenville, Tennessee
TO RAISE GAME.
Wanted a partner to raise game ona sea island, A pleasant resort during the Winter. Write to the Owner, care of The Game Breeder. 150 Nassau St., New York EO SO) SE
200 PHEASANTS WANTED -WILL TAKE EQUAL
number of cocks and hens, Send pricesand age ot birds, R. A. MAXWELL, care of The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau Street, New York.
RINGNECK PHEASANTS, $5.00A PAIR. GOLDENS, $10.00 a pair. Guaranteed strong and in the pink of con- dition for Spring breeding. Order now as I havea limited supply of birds. LILLIAN E, GALLUP, 2239 Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska. t
REGISTERED AND PEDIGREED BLACK FOXES RUGGED PUPS BORN IN NATURAL CONDITIONS ON MOUNTAIN RANCH. GUARANTEED Tv BREED. EVERY ONE OF OUR EIGHT FEMALES WHELPED THIS SPRING. WRITE FOR RECORDS, Ss Plaga MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH, ONAWA,
AINE.
“THE RANCH BRED FOX,” THE BEST BOOK published on Fox farming. Tells all about this wonderful industry. Price 2s5c, postpai¢, THE BLACK FOX MAGAZINE, 15 Whitehall St., New York
In writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: ‘‘Yours for More Game.”
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Notice to Purchasers.
Purchasers can rely upon advertisers in The Game Breeder. Society has a committee known as the Game Guild, which investigates
The Game Conservation complaints promptly
and insists upon fair dealing under a penalty of dismissal from membership and the loss of the right to advertise in the magazine. There are very few complaints in a year, for the most part due to shipments of eggs. These have been uniformly adjusted to the satisfaction of the | seller and purchaser. Any member making a complaint should ‘state that in placing his order
he mentioned the fact that it was due to an advertisement in The Game Breeder.
All mem-
bers of the Society are urged to buy from those who support the publication by advertising
in it.
BREEDERS’ CARDS ==
LIVE GAME, ELK, DEER, WILD
Turkeys, Quail, Pheasants, Ducks, and all other game. Eggs in season. See-space advertise- ment,
W. J. MACKENSEN, Yardley, Pa. Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS, PIGEONS AND EGGS.
Pheasants, Amherst, Silver, Gold-
en, Reeves, Mongolian, Swinhoe,
23. Wersicolor, Ringnecks, Cochin ~. Bantams, White King Pigeons.
aie Eggs in Season. BLUE RIBBON POULTRY AND PHEASANT FARM Davenport Neck, Phone 655, New Rochelle, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild.
REGISTERED BLACK FOXES, TROUT & HARES. ; Rugged pups, bred on highest ranchin America. 1917 Breeding Record. 8 litters from 8 females. Also Mountain Brook Trout.. Milch Goats. Belgium and Flemish Hares. BOARSTONE MOUNTAIN FOX RANCH | Onawa -. Maine Member of the Game Guild.
FANCY PHEASANTS
Booklet Free Stock and Eggs Reasonable E. M. MENGEL Box 8-P, Auburn, Penna.
MALLARDS AND BLACK DUCKS. Guaranteed; Pure Bred Wild Ducks. Strongest Flyers. $4.00 each. Black Ducks, Eggs in season. 15 Mallard eggs, $4.00, 100 eggs $25. 15 Black Duck eggs, $6.00, 100 eggs, $35. F. B. DUSETTE, Bad Axe, _ Michigan. Member of the Game Guild.
Do not write for prices or infor- mation. Send check. If birds do not please you return them and your money will be returned at once.
Cochin Bantams, Silkies _
Mal--
BOOK ON
DOG DISEASES And How to Feed |:
Mailed free to any address by} the Author
Pioneer H. CLAY GLOVER CO,, Inc., Dog Medicines} 118 West 31st Street, New York
BREEDER OF FANCY PHEASANTS
Eggs inseason. Amhersts, Silver, Golden, Versicolor, Mongolian, Reeves, Ringnecks, Manchurian, Elliott, Swinhoe, Impeyan, Mela- notus, Soemmering.
i GRAY’S ; GOLD || POULTRY FARM
Gifford Gray, Orange, New Jersey Member of the Game Guild.
_ DR. FRANK KENT Importer Bob White Quail San Antonio, Texas.
Book your: orders now for early . Fall and Spring delivery. Bank references.
Member of the Game Guild.
PHEASANTS AND PHEASANT EGGS =y Aviary Pheasants, nearly all species | 7m Also Ringnecks. Eggs in Season.
Write for Prices. \
BALDWIN PALMER a Villa Serena, Sea Cliff, Long Island, N. Y. Member of the Game Guild. 6t
DOGS
HOUNDS—ALL KINDS. BIG 50 PAGE CATALOGUE 10¢. ROOKWOOD KENNELS, Lexington, Kentucky ~
THE BLUE GRASS FARM KENNELS, of Berry, Ky.,
offer forsale setters and pointers, fox and cat hounds; wolf and deer hounds. Coon and opossum hounds, var- mint and rabbit hounds, bear and lion hounds, also Aire- dale terriers, All dogs shipped on trial, purchaser to: judge the quality, satisfaction guaranteed or money re- funded. Sixty page, highly illustrated, instructive and interesting catalogue for ten cents in stamps or coin
AIREDALE TERRIERS. The genuine one-man dog.
Pedigreed, registered pups. Males $25.00. Females, $15.00, Guaranteed Satisfactory. L. E. GALLUP, 2209 Ogden, Omaha, Nebraska, — :
: in writing to advertisers please mention The Game Breeder or sign your letters: “Yours. for More Game.”
What Do You Feed ~ Your Dog?
One of our Testimonials Do you give him scraps Tue Onto State Universrry, from the table and high | THE VETERINARY COLLEGE, priced cereals? If so, has Columbus, Ohio it occurred to you that
rT) W 7 A ° . etse yom Woy Mocs in this is not only wasteful,
large amounts in our Hospital
and would be greatly incon- but expensive | venienced without them. It
is surprising how long we can HAVE YOU TRIED
keep a dog on just these cakes
alone. They keep in good ,) condition and never seem to SPRATT'S DOG CAKES
tire of them.
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They are the result of over sixty years’ ex- perience in the manufacture of Dog Foods and contain all the ingredients necessary to keep your dog in perfect health.
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Write for samples and send 2c. stamp for “Dog Culture.”
SPRATT’S PATENT LIMITED
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
San Francisco St. Louis Cleveland Montreal Factory also in London, England
Game Breeders!
Use the Remington UMC Model 12 .22 Caliber Repeating Rifle for Exterminating Vermin
Model No. 12A “Standard” Grade
O one knows better than the breeder of game the losses incurred through predatory animals. Vermin are a menace to wild life. | ie
The .22 caliber rifle is really a necessity on a game farm. A good small bore arm with its comparatively inexpensive ammunition meets every requirement.
The Remington UMC .22 Caliber Model 12 Repeating Rifle is adopted probably by more sportsmen than any other small bore arm. Specifications: Chambered to take without adjustment .22 Short, .22 Long and .22 Long Rifle Cartridges; magazine holds 15, 12 and 11 cartridges respectively. .22-inch’ Remington steel, round barrel with 16-inch twist. Straight erip, walnut stock fitted with rubber butt plate. Weight 4% pounds. Also furnished chambered for .22 short only without extra charge. Specialistep rear sight with finger EOE, white metal bead sporting front sight.
Ask Your Nearest Remington UMC Dealer
THE REMINGTON ARMS UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY WOOLWORTH BUILDING iNEW YORK CITY
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