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THE GAME BREEDER 



into an open district, and in Colorado 

 by providing an open season of four days 

 to begin in 1918. 



The limit on elk has been reduced 

 from two to one in Saskatchewan. 



Much needed protection was given an- 

 telope in Nevada and Texas, and the sea- 

 sons extended on these and other big 

 game in Colorado, Montana and Texas. 

 Alberta extended the close season on an- 

 telope to 1925. 



It becomes more and more evident that 

 game protection naturally leads to the 

 prohibition of sport. The game breeders 

 rapidly are making game plentiful in 

 places where they have been able to keep 

 the protective laws ofif of the game farms. 

 All prohibition statutes should contain a 

 clause stating that they do not apply to 

 game owned by breeders. 



' ^ More About "Don't Get Blue." 



Last month we printed the lament of 

 Mr. Kurtz, of Loveland, Ohio, about the 

 passing of the game and fur and we ad- 

 vised him not to get blue. We were sur- 

 prised at the promptness with which the 

 magazine reached him and at his quick 

 reply which follows : 

 Editor Game Breeder : 



In reference to your "Don't Get Blue" 

 comment on part only of an article of 



[The part came to us in clipping. Send the 

 rest. — Editor.] 



mine kindly allow me to return the com- 

 pliment plus some advice. 



[we will scatter a little advice through 

 your letter and hope you will "come again." — 

 Editor.] 



I have investigated the various pheas- 

 ant and game farms in Ohio, Indiana and 

 Kentucky. They are more or less effi- 

 ciently and successfully kept., The 

 owners and promoters of any such pre- 

 serves and propagating farms should get 

 the honors and praise of a real construc- 

 tive conservationist. It is what we have 

 been preadiing for years, and in my talks 

 to farmers and countrymen I have advo- 

 cated a sanctuary and protected zone on 

 every place in this great country of ours. 



[It seems to us you got your protected zone 

 on quail a little too wide for sport or food in 

 Ohio— Editor.] 



We are with you all right, dear Game 



P)reeder. on any sensible scheme to pro- 

 duce game birds and animals. 



[Can the producer sell the quail when pro- 

 duced in Ohio? — Editor.] 



Unless we produce abundantly we will 

 be obliged to curtail and restrict the toll 

 that seems sure. 



[Will any one produce quail abundantly in 

 Ohio as we do on Long Island, N. Y., and 

 in other free States ? We can shoot but would 

 produce more if we could sell. — Editor.] 



But I fail to find a man with common 

 sense who would advocat" or allow indis- 

 criminate, free and open shooting on any 

 such preserves especially when he con- 

 siders his own expense account and ef- 

 forts. 



[We have often asked neighbors to shoot 

 but only as many as we could have without 

 extermination. — Editor.] 



Unless the producer is assured of ab- 

 solute protection he would be a fool to 

 try the game. 



[Keep the game laws off the farm and the 

 producer will look after the game and its 

 protection until it leaves his premises when 

 those who do nothing will get some as they 

 do in many places where game has been made 

 plantiful. — Editor.] 



We notice the conspicuous "Positively 

 no admission" sign on every successful 

 game farm. 



[The same is true of sheep farms and many 

 others — ipractically all farms in Ohio.— 

 Editor.] 



Every countryman knows that free 

 and indiscriminate hunting and gunning 

 soon exterminates everything of fur or 

 feathers. 



[You are quite right, I have^shot many wild 

 pigeons near your post office. They are ex- 

 tinct now. — Editor.] 



In all my experience 1 failed to 6nd 

 the hunter who hesitated to sho'ot a 

 dollar's worth of ammunition at a ten- 

 cent piece of game, especially when it 

 cost him nothing to produce the bit. 

 Individually there are no doubt fellows 

 with sportsman's sense and spirit, but 

 collectively the gunners in the open fields 

 care little but for getting their share and 

 the other fellows, too. 



I l-'me^Tted the passing of the store- 

 house wilderness. Great and wonder- 

 fully balanced wasn't it? No wonder 

 the Nimrod Redman hated and fought 

 the pale-faced destroyer of same. 

 {^Continued on page 120.) 



