THE GAME BREEDER 



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Young Mallards. 



From Our Wild Fowl and Waders. 



Gary schools will afford an opportunity 

 for technical instruction along this 

 branch of wild life conservation to bo\s 

 and girls when their minds are in a 

 particularly receptive condition to ideas 

 of this sort. The experiment will be 

 watched with interest by sportsmen and 

 thousands of others who are interested 

 in wild life conservation. 



A Fishy Yarn. 



Capt. George W. Greenleaf, of the 

 U. S. Fisheries Steamer Gannet, in "The 

 Maine Woods" : "The Gannet was out 

 gathering cod eggs for the hatchery. 

 Among the cods was one that didn't 

 yield many eggs, although Dave Penning- 

 ton squeezed her until she almost burst. 

 Capt. Greenleaf thought there should be 

 more eggs and took hold, with no bet- 

 ter results. Wondering, he slit the fish 

 open with a knife and took out a full- 

 grown coot." Some doubt it, just as 

 they doubt the story of Jonah. 



A Worthy Apotheosis. 



Henry P. Bridges, Baltimore, Md. : 

 "The gorgeous colors of the wild turkey 

 glisten in the sunshine like varnished 

 bronze. His broad shoulders and deep 

 chest and firm steps show that he is 

 as hardy as an oak. He has a clean 

 cut game head, jeweled with bright eyes. 

 He is always on the lookout for trouble, 

 and his suspicions make him the grand- 

 est American game bird for the hunter 

 to stalk and get a shot .at." 



Crimes and criminal laws should not be 

 made on junketing expeditions through- 

 out the country after "conferences" with 

 the prospective criminals, termed "hear- 

 ings." Even if criminal laws must be 

 thus made, the head of the construction 

 group should not be a doctor of medi- 

 cine. Give us someone who understands 

 legal principles and we will stand a 

 chance of having respectable laws and 

 not criminal absurdities. 



