T^! Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter. Jul/ g, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City 

 ^ New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME XII 



MARCH, 19 J 8 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 6 



More Quail and Grouse. 



Many of our readers promptly sent us 

 three new subscribers in answer to our 

 circular letter asking them to help extend 

 the circulation of the magazine and to 

 contribute to our experiment with quail 

 and other American game. The pheas- 

 ants and some species of wild ducks ra- 

 pidly have become plentiful and any 

 reader who wants these birds or even wild 

 turkeys and their eggs can procure them. 

 Pheasants and ducks have begun to come 

 to the New York markets in good num- 

 bers from the progressive States which 

 have intelligent game officers and the sale 

 of these birds as food will tend to keep 

 the business good. Our big experiment 

 with ducks and pheasants had much to 

 do with starting the industry with these 

 birds. 



We now propose to set the pace for the 

 industry of quail and grouse breeding and 

 it is highly important that these birds 

 should be made plentiful in States which 

 do not enact "fool laws" putting them 

 on the song bird list, thus destroying a 

 profitable industry and sport at the same 

 time. The State game departments, which 

 prefer politics to game may save a few 

 quail and grouse for the crows and other 

 vermin, but they surely will not have the 

 revenues from sport which they now 

 have when field sports are made illegal. 

 A few breeding farms in every county 

 will make it not necessary to put the 

 game on the song bird list and we are 

 quite sure we are the best friends the 

 game departments have since our work 

 will make the departments of great eco- 

 nomic importance in the States which 

 have intelligent officers. Everyone can 



shoot quail and grouse on Long Island, 

 N. Y., because our members produce 

 these birds on many protected areas. 



We hope our readers who have not 

 done so will get busy and send in their 

 contributions to our experiment with 

 quail and grouse. We especially wish to 

 have a large number of people interested 

 in this work who, we are sure, will enjoy 

 saying, "we did it." 



The Hen Now a U. S. Ward. 



Five million dozen eggs will be added 

 to the nation's food supply because of 

 an order which will be put into effect to- 

 morrow prohibiting the killing of egg- 

 laying hens at any time before May 1. 



The hen will thus become one of the 

 country's war wards and it will be a 

 crime punishable at the discretion of the 

 food administration to wield an axe over 

 her sacred head. Not only are farmers 

 and others prohibited from killing her, 

 but transportation companies are forbid- 

 den to carry her, dead or alive, and deal- 

 ers, wholesale and retail, must not inter- 

 fere with her egg-laying proclivities. 



The slaughter of roosters may continue 

 as usual, and chickens which have not 

 reached the egg-laying stage of life are 

 still left to the mercy of the squab con- 

 sumer. 



It is the first time in the country's his- 

 tory that legal protection has ever been 

 thrown about the hen. — N. Y. Tribune. 



We hope the statement that "transpor- 

 tation companies are forbidden to carry 

 her dead or alive" may be found to be 

 erroneous. Otherwise we will have an- 

 other case of restrictions which may do 

 more harm than good. The Game Con- 



