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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 have a boom shortly. The 

 people will enjoy the last named when 

 they can buy them at moderate prices 

 as they soon \x\\l. 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- 

 nounced long 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 



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 counlsry 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 statfe. 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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