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THE GAME BREEDER 



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 pknty 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 iwho ask for licenses. 



More Singers. ' 



There seems to be a disposition to 

 put the prairie grouse and sharp-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. — Peter 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 jnust 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 qliickly at an- 

 other. 



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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. 



