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THE GAME BREEDER 



A FAIR AMENDMENT. 



A bill to amend the nonsensical N. Y. 

 Conservation law (popularly known as 

 one of the leading, "Fool Laws," as the 

 newspapers say), so as to permit the sale 

 of deer, pheasants, and ducks from other 

 States in the New York markets, has 

 some chance at Albany we are told. The 

 amendment is quite absurd, of course, 

 and in harmony with the original "fool" 

 enactment in that it permits only the im- 

 portation and sale of the game which 

 least needs the breeders' attention. It is 

 a stride, however, in the right direction 

 and we hope it will pass. It is better 

 to kill nonsense piecemeal than not to kill 

 it at all. 



The following bill may be enacted in 

 New York: 



To Amend the New York Conserva- 

 tion Law. 



"Section 377. Certain mammals and birds 

 may be imported from without the State and 

 sold. Any person engaged in the business of 

 raising and selling domesticated American elk, 

 whitetail deer, European red deer and fallow 

 deer, roebuck, pheasants, mallard ducks and 

 black ducks, or any of them, in a wholly en- 

 closed preserve or entire island, of which he 

 is the owner or lessee, under a breeder's law 

 providing for the tagging of all preserve-bred 

 game and otherwise similar in principle to the 

 law of the State of New York in such case 

 made and provided, may make application in 

 writing to the commission for a permit to im- 

 port such mammals or birds into the State of 

 New York and sell the same. In the event 

 that the commission shall be satisfied that the 

 said mammals and birds are. bred in captivity 

 and are killed and tagged under a breeding 

 law similar in principle to that of the State of 

 New York, upon the payment of a fee of five 

 dollars, together with such additional sum as 

 the commissioner may determine to cover the 

 necessary cost of inspection, the commission 

 may in its discretion issue a revocable permit 

 in writing to such applicant to import such 

 mammals and birds raised as aforesaid into the 

 State of New York and to sell the same, in 

 which case the provisions of sections three 

 hundred and seventy-two, three hundred and 

 seventy-three and there hundred and seventy- 

 four of the conservation law, in so far as the 

 same are applicable, shall apply. 



"Section 2. This act shall take effect imme- 

 diately." 



The question is on the passage of the 

 bill. Shall the bill pass? The Game 

 Breeder votes aye, because it is much 

 better than nothing. 



GAME EATING. 



We especially like to eat quail, grouse 

 and other game birds when we know that 

 by so doing we are helping to make them 

 plentiful and to keep them so. 



The object of the game dinners of the 

 Game Conservation Society is to make 

 game eating fashionable ; to restore some 

 of the best American foods to the table. 



We have no doubt the society will be 

 in the market for cinnamon teal and 

 other comparatively rare species in order 

 to serve them as samples and to induce 

 the people to buy and to eat the desirable 

 foods liberally. Money has been abund- 

 ant to secure game law absurdities. We 

 see considerable in sight to secure more 

 game for sport and for food. 



The fight for "more game" having 

 been won, in so far as the common half- 

 bred mallards and pheasants are con- 

 sumed in many States, and the laws hav- 

 ing been amended so as to make it pos- 

 sible to produce other species in some 

 States, it is high time that the eating of 

 all species should be made not only fash- 

 ionable but commonplace. The money 

 used to purchase the food surely will find 

 its way, under proper regulations, to the 

 places where the food can be produced 

 cheaply. "More game eating; more 

 game," is our new and revised slogan. 

 Incidentally, we can see a restoration of 

 field sports; the breeding and sale of 

 shooting dogs; the sale and use of guns 

 and ammunition, etc., and a general good 

 time. We observed editorially a few 

 years ago, "there's a good time coming; 

 its almost here." 



Game Breeding Instruction. 



A course in the breeding of game 

 birds in captivity has been added to the 

 zoology work of the Gary public schools 

 system, in Gary, Ind. E. A. Spaulding, 

 principal of the Emerson School of the 

 Gary system, first suggested the idea. An 

 appeal was made to Wallace Evans, of 

 St. Charles, 111., the large breeder of 

 game birds, who agreed to supply the 

 school with all the necessary stock to 

 start breeding ringneck pheasants, mal- 

 lard ducks and gray call ducks. 



It is contended that the work of the 



