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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK. NOVEMBER, 1917. 



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The Game CoNstRVATiON Society, Inc. 



PUBLISHERS 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



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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. 



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. 



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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. 



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 



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 



