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The growing need of special provisions governing the sale of 

 game birds and animals raised in captivity is receiving recognition by 

 the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The growth of the 

 industry of raising game for market, like cattle and poultry, is mani- 

 fested in legislation in many states during the last few years. A dozen 

 states now have such provision in their laws, and the production and 

 marketing of domesticated game seems destined to become an industry 

 that will demand more and more recognition in future legislation. 

 With proper means of identification provided, so as to prevent evasion 

 of the laws prohibiting traffic in wild game, there would seem to be 

 no reason why this industry should not be encouraged in every 

 possible way. 



The officials of the Biological Survey claim that by allowing 

 domestic raised game birds to be sold in the market indirectly protects 

 the wild game. One of the great reasons for the non-observance of 

 game laws is the ever-present desire of the general public to eat 

 game. Make it possible for the general public to purchase game food 

 during a legal season, and the incentive to evade the laws would be 

 minimized. In all game legislation the general, or non-sportsman 

 public must be reckoned with. To ignore this factor invites violation 

 of game and fish laws. The game law of Oregon now permits the 

 sale for eating purposes, except during the open season on wild 

 pheasants, of domestic raised pheasants, that have been pinioned 

 when young, if shipped alive and sold direct to the consumer under 

 permit from the State Game Warden. 



Wiib OurkeY^ 



Wild Turkeys, the great American game bird, have at last been 

 domesticated, and raised successfully in captivity, so that they may be 

 permitted to range with the same freedom now afforded the domestic 

 stock. It has been demonstrated that they are absolutely free from 

 the various diseases that are so fatal to the common breeds, and that 

 the business of Wild Turkey raising may be made a profitable, as well 

 as an intensely interesting occupation, solving some of the serious 

 problems now confronting those engaged in raising turkeys on a com- 

 mercial scale. Experiments in breeding Wild Turkeys in Southern 

 State Experiment Stations has proven that they are not susceptible 

 to blackhead, or any of the other common diseases of the domestic 

 turkey, the most delicate of all domestic fowls when young. Dr. 

 Curtice of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry advises the 



