T h< : Game Breeder 



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



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



VOLUME IX 



APRIL, \9\6 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER J 



All Up For Kentucky. 



Here is a clause in a bill that will 

 probably be enacted into a law in Ken- 

 tucky before this issue reaches our 

 readers : 



"That all game birds and game ani- 

 mals reared or bred in captivity shall be 

 considered domesticated stock and the 

 owners or raisers thereof may keep, sell, 

 ship, transport, or otherwise dispose of 

 them, and such stock shall not be effected 

 or covered by the law prohibiting or reg- 

 ulating the killing or disposition of game 

 birds or game animals, when the breeders 

 or owners thereof have a permit for the 

 keeping, selling, shipping, transporting or 

 otherwise disposing of them. Such per- 

 mits shall be issued by the Game and 

 Fish Commission upon application and 

 shall be granted where the said birds 

 or animals have been lawfully acquired 

 and raised. Provided, that the dead 

 body or parts thereof of any bird or 

 animal, lawfully reared in captivity, may 

 be sold when such animal or bird or part 

 thereof is marked with a metal tag, said 

 tag to be furnished by the Game and 

 Fish Commission upon application, and 

 no charge shall be made except for ac- 

 tual cost of said tag or tags." 



The foregoing seems to reflect the 

 genial countenance and ideals of that 

 practical game saver, Mr. Talbot, of In- 

 diana. 



Quail in Rhode Island. 



There is no living creature save a 

 quail that will work all the summer and 

 fall for the farmer and then supply him 

 with the best of food for his table. And 

 all the quail requires is to live in peace 

 until he is wanted for food with a lit- 



tle attention when deep snows cover the 

 ground in winter. Owing to the recent 

 severe weather in Rhode Island, the Fish 

 and Game Protective Association have 

 made an appeal to the people of the state 

 to help feed the birds. The deep snow 

 has covered up the food that nature pro- 

 vides for them and they have had an 

 unusually hard time. The association's 

 members are doing all they can to help 

 the birds, but have appealed to the peo- 

 ple to help them scatter cracked grain 

 or other food in the places that the quail 

 and other birds have been seen to fre- 

 quent. They request the farmers to 

 throw the sweepings of their haymows 

 or cracked grain on the edges of the 

 wood. Bob White is really a hardy lit- 

 tle fellow, but there is waste ground 

 enough in country localities so he might 

 have places of refuge in winter where 

 he would be safe and be sure of modest 

 rations. 



Angling in Ice Bound Streams. 



Candidly, it looks as if the objections 

 by anglers to the ruling of the New 

 York Conservation Commission that 

 there shall be no fishing for brook trout 

 while streams are ice bound, will not 

 quite "hold water." In effect they are 

 that all trout fishermen know that when 

 the streams are filled with "ice and snow 

 water, trout will not rise to the bait." 

 By the same token, why should any one 

 want to angle when "trout will not rise 

 to the bait?" The object of the law was 

 no doubt to prevent fishing in some rush- 

 ing stream that may have cleared itself 

 of ice in places before the winter is 

 over. It is no great hardship to forbid 

 all from doing that which few care to 

 do and which no one should care to do. 



