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THE GAME BREEDER 



Near Trout. 



The Washington (D. C.) Times says: 

 "The people here are suffering a bit of 

 fisherman's graft because Washingtoni- 

 ans are determined to ask for trout. The 

 fisherman is bringing a Httle fish, called 

 Whiting, to town, and the fish peddler is 

 camouflaging it under the undeserved 

 name of winter trout. There is no such 

 thing in the heavens above, the earth 

 beneath, or the waters under the earth as 

 winter trout." 



We are quite sure there are no trout 

 of any kind "in the earth beneath," but 

 we are not prepared to venture an opin- 

 ion as to what kind of trout are to be 

 found in "the happy hunting grounds" 

 above. 



More Fish. 



An appropriation of $30,000 has been turned 

 over to the Bureau of Fisheries by President 

 Wilson from his emergency defence fund for 

 promoting the use of new fish foods. The 

 appHcation was recommended by Secretary 

 Redfield and Food Administrator Hoover. 

 Secretary Redfield said today that approxi- 

 mately 25,000 tons of new fish foods already 

 have been sold as a result of propaganda by 

 the Department of Commerce, costing less than 

 $15,000. 



Enactment of laws to stimulate the produc- 

 tion of clams was suggested today to Gov- 

 ernor Carl E. Milliken, of Maine, by Secre- 

 t.'^ry Redfield. Owing to unfavorable condi- 

 t'ons, it was reported by the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries that thousands of clams never reached 

 full development, and Secretary Redfield 

 wrote Governor Milliken urging that the State 

 take steps for leasing barren or depleted 

 bottoms for the cultivation of clams. 



Why not suggest laws to stimulate the 

 production of game? We hope it will 

 not be long before the game is as credi- 

 tably handled by the National Govern- 

 ment as the fish are. It would be far 

 better to encourage the production of a 

 vast amount of game as food than to 

 create a big number of new crimes which 

 are unknown in any civilized country ex- 

 cepting America, and a vast army of 

 policemen to arrest the people guilty of 

 the fanciful offenses — for having stock 

 birds in their possession for breeding 

 purposes, etc. Congress should ascer- 

 tain why it is that market gunners in 

 other countries are permitted to supply 

 the people with game for food, just as 



fishermen supply them with oysters and 

 fish. The question is big enough for a 

 Congressional investigation and there 

 are plenty of people who know how easy 

 it would be to keep our markets full of 

 game at prices surprisingly small. The 

 Dean of American Sportsmen, Charles 

 Hallock, sent a good message on this 

 subject to the Sportsmen of America, 

 which we published last month, shortly 

 after his death. 



Harmful Deer. 



The Newark (N. J.) News says: "The 

 State Department of Conservation and 

 Development has issued an appeal to the 

 agricultural interests of the State to sup- 

 port a measure to be introduced by As- 

 semblyman Hagaman, providing that 

 any person may kill a deer at any time 

 if it is found damaging his crops. The 

 department states that the measure will 

 not be opposed by the State Fish and 

 Game Commission, though it is antici- 

 pated it may meet with opposition from 

 other sources. 



More Laws. 



The Des Moines (Iowa) Register 

 says : "The second annual meeting of the 

 Iowa Fish and Game Conservation So- 

 ciety will be held at the Elks' Club. The 

 object of the meeting will be to formu- 

 late and discuss a program for the se- 

 curing of new legislation, etc." 



Often we have pointed out that the 

 Sportsmen's Associations usually get 

 what they go after, "more laws." We 

 have heard of a bag as high as ninety in 

 one State in a year, and often we won- 

 der when the sportsmen will think they 

 have enough. 



Sportsmen who go after ''more game" 

 also get what they go after, and we are 

 always glad to hear of places where they 

 have made the game so plentiful that it 

 is not deemed necessary to put it on the 

 song bird list. . 



More Hares. • 



The Fulton County (N. Y.) Fish and 

 Game Club has ordered 300 varying 

 hares, which will be trapped in Maine 

 and shipped early in February. 



This in our opinion is better than run- 



