THE GAME BREEDER 103 



of pheasant eggs, wild duck, wild turkev. fears the purchaser may suffer a loss 



quail and other game eggs. It seems to if the birds should catch cold, 

 be entirely unaware that wild turkeys The Game Conservation Society is 



have become abundant in places where willing to assume the risk of the birds 



they were extinct. It seems to have taking cold and will give a bond, good 



slept so soundly that it appears to know and sufficient, conditional that this will 



nothing about what is going on in the not happen, provided the Biological Sur- 



lield it is supposed to survey, or at least vey will furnish any good and satisfac- 



if it does know anything the figures are tory reason why such a bond should be 



not available. Many people have big required. 



game ranches where thousands of game The Survey should not be too busy 



birds are produced. There are thousands getting one more game law to ask for 



of small breeders in the free States where a bond and let us have some stock for 



food producing no longer is criminal. breeding purposes. We will promise to 



= produce a big lot of food. We have done 



One More Law in Minnesota. this before when we could procure breed- 



The Secretary of the Game Protec- ing fowls early so they would forget 



tive League writes the game conditions their old home and get busy in the new 



in Minnesota are better than they have one. 



been for a number of years; the legisla- ~*^ 



ture placed a closed season on rufifed jvjore Game Prohibition. 

 grouse, etc. From the Game Protective • , • 

 view this is fine, one more game law Changes aftectmg big game made by 

 safe in the books. The sportsman who legislatures m session this year, according 

 owns a grouse dog may continue to feed to a study made by E. W. Nelson chief 

 him and the fox, the crow, the hawk oi the Biological Survey, and Messrs. 

 will continue to dine on grouse eggs Lawyer, Bancroft and Earnshaw, were 

 and birds. No provision seems to have "early all in the direction of greater pro- 

 been made to except grouse breeders who taction. i j ■ 

 may prefer to have grouse in their The season on deer was closed in 

 woods and who might look after the Oklahoma for five years and in Utah for 

 birds if it was worth while to do so. ^hree years. The killing of does was pro- 

 We suspect the boys fond of snaring hibited m Arkansas and Saskatchewan 

 and trapping (we have kicked many such and m Mississippi through the rejection 

 devices to pieces in the woods) will con- oi the game aw of 1916 the old law pro- 

 tinue their avocations and we have a tecting female deer was left m force. On 

 notion there may be some gunners who f^ other hand protection was removed 

 have learned that grouse are edible who ^'^"^ does in Idaho and Wisconsin, 

 will take a shot at them when out after As a result of these changes does are 

 rabbits, possibly not knowing that the now protected in fourteen of the thirty- 

 birds are on the song-bird list. two States m which deer hunting is open 



^ this year, in Alaska, and in four Canad- 

 ian provinces. 

 The Congress Should Inquire. Does are protected throughout the year 



We respectfully ask Congress to in- and hunting restricted to bucks in Ala- 

 quire if the Bureau of Biological Survey, bama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New 

 denied permits to import stock birds for Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsyl- 

 breeding purposes. The Game Breeder vania, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia 

 charges that it has done so and that it and Alaska, and also in .Mberta, Mani- 

 has given as the reason for its refusal loba. Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, 

 fear that the birds would take cold. We The deer laws were made more liberal 

 respectfully ask Congress to inquire if in California by pernrtting deer to be 

 the Survey is opposed to food production hunted with one dog and allowing a deer 

 or if the only reason is that the Survev killed in a closed district to be .shipped 



