THE GAME BREEDER 



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opportunity for the starting of this in- 

 dustry in many parts of the country. 

 There undoubtedly will be an increasing 

 demand for bass to restock ponds on 

 country places and preserves. Many 

 people have lakes and ponds well filled 

 with bass and would be willing to sell 

 some of their fish if it were legal to do 

 so. 



Bass should, of course, be abundant 

 and cheap in all our markets. 



perimenters, and experiments do not always 

 produce the best results the first year. We 

 only produced about three tons of game the 

 second year of our experiment at the Game 

 Breeders' Association. Whatever we do we 

 will leave it out when the figures in the com- 

 petition are made up. New Jersey was talked 

 about ibut we have lands offered in other 

 places that seem even more suitable to our 

 requirements. — Editor. ] 



The game shooting clubs are doing far 

 more good for the shooting public and 

 eating than the quiet refuges do, since 

 when the shooting is lively many birds 

 desert and are shot in places miles away 

 from the breeding grounds. 



Over a thousand ducks went out one 

 season from The Game Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation on Long Island, N. Y., where they 

 were reared about an artificial pond from 

 purchased stock birds. 



It seems strange for some sportsmen 

 to be in favor of establishing vast areas 

 as quiet sanctuaries where no one can 

 shoot and where no food is produced for 

 the people to eat, and to be opposed to 

 lively shooting clubs where game is bred 

 and shot abundantly. There is plenty of 

 room in America for all kinds of game 

 preserving and the game breeders laws 

 rapidly have resulted in many tons of 

 game being produced and shot by those 

 who prefer field sports to game laws. 



The First Letter About It. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



Since talking with you about the States 

 which would send the most game to the 

 hospitals and the betting on the result, it 

 occurs to me it is hardly fair to the other 

 States for the Conservation Society to 

 locate its new farm in the State selected 

 (New Jersey, I understand), and give 

 the entire amount of your game to the 

 hospitals. This gives the State selected a 

 decided lead in production. You know 

 what J think my State can do. I would 

 like to see it win. H. R. S. 



[You are quite right. We will leave out the 

 amount of game produced on the new farm 

 of the society. We doubt if we will produce 

 much over a ton of game, since we are ex- 



Game Ranches. 



We like much the term "game ranch" 

 used in the article of Mr. F. B. Dusette. 

 It is legal to have cattle ranches and sheep 

 ranches, why should we not have big deer 

 ranches, grouse ranches, duck ranches 

 and ranches for quail and other game. 

 There are no better foods than the game 

 foods, and food production just now is 

 popular. The Game Conservation So- 

 ciety encourages the game ranch for sport 

 and for profit and we always are glad to 

 record the creation of new ranches. 



Good News. 



The following telegram received by 

 The Game Breeder is self-explanatory. 

 It will be good news for quail breeders : 



GOV'T RUSH. 

 Western Union Telegram. 

 Washington, D. C, 527P.24. 



Importation Mexican Quail Will be 

 Permitted Beginning February Fifteen. 



Henderson, 

 Acting Chief Biological Survey. 



"More." 



What a great, big word "more" has 

 become recently since The Game Breeder 

 set the "more game" movement going. 

 The race between "more laws" and 

 "more game" is exciting. We have 

 placed all of our money on the last 

 named horse. 



We hope our members will respond 

 promptly to a circulation proposition 

 which soon they will receive in the mail. 



Many members are calling for our sub- 

 scription blanks who say they wish to 

 increase the circulation of The Game 

 Breeder. 



