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THE GAME BREEDER 



this would lend additional meaning to 

 the technical name "Eximo," which will 

 be explained later, and the Bean Goose 

 is said to be a very wary bird (Elliot). 

 The flesh of Branta Eximo is dark, ten- 

 der, juicy and delicious, strongly resem- 

 bling the young of Branta Canadensis 

 when feeding right. 



By far the most important fact in the 

 life history of this species is that it is 

 totally exempt from restrictive game 

 laws, and on this account it quickly can 

 be made an abundant food. It can be 

 handled in broad daylight, so to speak, 

 even in game prohibition States, as 

 freely as the Pekin duck or the Mallard, 

 Anas Boschas, can be handled, the last 

 named, of course, only in States which 

 recently have repaired their game laws. 

 On account of this peculiar advantage I 

 have named the new species Eximo (Lat. 

 Ex, Emo; Eximo), which indicates that 

 this Branta declares "I am exempt !" 



P. S. The breeder, Mr.Dusette, says 

 this is the only wild fowl he is permit- 

 ted to send out of Michigan. Warning: 

 Don't get him on the song-bird list. 



P. S. No. 2. I can only present the 

 portrait (head profile, Plate I) of this 

 species and the feet. Plate II (which last 

 named are most important in enabling 

 it to escape the attention of game war- 

 dens) since I did not have time to make 

 a complete drawing of the body — cook 

 said if I didn't send him right in- he 

 would not be plucked in time for dinner. 

 He was eight days on the road from Bad 

 Axe to New York, probably due to 

 freight congestion on account of the war, 

 but he arrived sound and sweet at the 

 office of The Game Breeder. Seldom 

 have I eaten a finer wild fowl. 



Albino Wild Duck Shot By a Wiscon- 

 sin Sportsman. 



One of our Minnesota readers sends 

 the following from the Minneapolis 

 Tribune : 



Prairie du Chien, Wis. — M. Brooks, 

 a hunter of this vicinity, has a queer 

 duck for a trophy and has had it mounted 

 to preserve as a curiosity. He brought 

 it down in the wild rice fields of the 

 Mississippi near here. It is pure white 



from head to tip of tail and has red eyes. 

 The bird was flying in a large flock of 

 ducks and was plainly distinguishable 

 from the rest a long ways off. 



White blackbirds, white robins, white 

 English sparrows, and even white crows 

 have been known, but hunters who have 

 hunted ducks for a lifetime on the Mis- 

 sissippi — the greatest migratory highway 

 for aquatic birds in the world — say it is 

 the first white wild duck they have ever 

 seen or heard of. 



They are puzzled to understand, con- 

 spicuous in appearance as it is, how the 

 duck was ever permitted to grow to ma- 

 turity and get this far south without 

 being shot. 



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Interested in Game Farming. 



The Game Conservation Society: 



The game farming industry is a busi- 

 ness in which I am greatly interested 

 and I earnestly believe it will become 

 eventually one of the leading and most 

 profitable of all rural industries. I take 

 great pleasure in reading your excellent 

 publication and anxiously await each 

 edition. I sincerely trust that in the 

 near future you will find it profitable to 

 issue it weekly. 



With your large acquaintance among 

 game breeders and your intimate knowl- 

 edge of the game breeding industry, I 

 would greatly appreciate your advice as 

 to whether or not a profitable farm could 

 be established in Minnesota. Also, if 

 you have any data as to the probable 

 cost of establishing such a plant exclu- 

 sive of the initial cost of the land and 

 would appreciate receiving same. 



Finally, what are the terms and con- 

 ditions of membership in the Game Con- 

 servation Society ? 



Yours for more game, 



N. R. Hoffman. 



Subscribing members pay $1 per year. Guild 

 members pay $2 per year and receive prompt 

 answers on any subject and other assistance. 

 Contributing members pay $5 per year. This 

 is simply a voluntary contribution to the gen- 

 eral work of the society. Life members pay 

 $100. The resources of the society are expend- 

 ed in the effort to mitigate the hardships im- 

 posed by law on breeders and to aid in creat- 

 ing new game shooting clubs and other cus- 

 tomers for game farmers. The industry is 

 profitable as you can learn by writing to any 



