18 THE GAME BREEDER 



Crows do the most damage, usually, Do you use an airedale or other dog? 

 just at daybreak when they fly low. Any special difficulty or matter of in- 

 hunting noiselessly for young birds and terest. What does it cost to rear a 

 eggs. Where the preserve is a large one bird ? Do you get good prices ? Have 

 and a quail preserve where quail are you made the shooting good ? Write now 

 bred wild in many fields a number of before you forget it. • Send letters to 

 scare-crows can be used to advantage The Game Breeder, 150 Nassau street, 

 and their positions should be changed New York. 



every few days. Some poles with traps You enjoy, no doubt, reading the ad- 



on them placed at a little distance from vertisements. Others will be glad to 



the scare-crows will invite the crows to read yours and to know that you are 



their destruction when they alight on engaged in the new and attractive in- 



them to view the scare-crow. dustry. Send in your ad and help the 



Dr. Judd, in his excellent bulletins, cause and help make the publication 



Forbush and other naturalists have re- more interesting, 



ferred to the damage done to game by = 

 crows and many readers of The Game 



Breeder are familiar with the full-page Game Enemies, 



picture of a crow with an egg on its bill If you wish to know how to trap the 



which was sent to me by a Massachusetts foxes and all the other enemies of your 



reader and printed in my book, Our game write to the Oneida Community, 



Wild Fowl and Waders, and, later, on Ltd., Oneida, New York, and ask them 



the cover of the magazine. to send you The Newhouse Trapper's 



I made the picture of the homely scare- Guide. This is an illustrated book on 



crow, printed above, in a field where quail trapping and well worth the price, 25 



were breeding within the city limits of cents. You can send the quarter in the 



New York. It was placed, of course, mail. 



to protect the crops from the crows, but The sale of one pheasant egg will pay 



it no doubt served to protect the quail the cost of this book and when you 



also. Crows were investigating it at know how to control the game enemies 



the time the photograph was made. you will save many game birds and 



= eggs. 



Game and Egg Prizes. 



^^ , , ^ Wild Geese Profitable. 



In January the committee of the Game .,, ^t -r^ , -vt tx „ 



Guild will award a number of prizes of ^^^^rt N. Froom, of the New Holland 



game birds and eggs to those who have Farms, Inc., New Holland, Hyde Co., 



written the best letters to The Game ^- C- writmg about his wild geese says : 



Breeder telling how they rear pheas- "^ ^^n not at this time offer any guar- 



ants, ducks, quail, turkey, deer and oth- ^nteed old raising pairs, though I may 



er game. ^^ able to do so later in the season. I 



All we want is short letters telling ^^^ $^-^ ^^^^ for wild geese, 



just how you do it and if you regard Mated pairs that have raised one or 



the industry as profitable. All letters more flocks are $35 and they pay big on 



received prior to December 31st will that valuation. Last fall and winter 



be considered by the committee. We are mated pairs, not guaranteed layers, 



sure you are interested in what other brought $25. A pair of mated geese 



members of the society are doing. They with me are often good for 10 to 12 



will be interested in what you are do- gooslings. I take away the first clutch 



ing. Please write us how you hatch oi eggs and they lay a second, usually 



the eggs, hens or incubators ? How you ^ot so many, and I set the first under 



feed the young birds the first few days a large hen or tame goose. Part of 



and later? What vermin you have to my birds are wing cut and some are 



contend with ? What traps you use ? pinioned. 



