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THE GAME BREEDER 



T 1 ?? Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, APRIL, 1916 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixot-io, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



THREE CHEERS FOR KEN- 

 TUCKY, ANOTHER "MORE 

 GAME" STATE. 



We are pleased to announce that the 

 Kentucky bill referred to in our Survey 

 of the Field, passed, as we predicted it 

 would. It is now the law, and a very 

 good one, it seems to us. 



CALIFORNIA. 



We had formed the opinion that the 

 •California Commission was in favor of 

 game breeding and that there must be 

 some mistake in the complaints coming to 

 The Game Breeder from that state. We 

 bjelieve it will be an easy matter for 

 California breeders to enlist the depart- 

 ment in an effort to have the game per- 

 mits issued at a nominal cost or for 

 nothing, as they are in Massachusetts. 



An important amendment should be 

 enacted, also, in California, as elsewhere, 

 permitting breeders to trap game birds 

 for propagation purposes. It is per- 

 fectly absurd to issue a license to every 

 one to destroy a certain number of birds 

 daily and to refuse to permit breeders 

 to take a similar number of birds alive 

 for the purpose of multiplying their 

 numbers for sport and for profit. There 

 is a shortage of stock birds, and this 

 must continue until it is legal to trap 

 them for the purpose of propagating as 

 freely as it now is to shoot for the 

 purpose of destroying. 



LET US BREED ALL SPECIES. 



Often we have pointed out the ab- 

 surdity of granting to breeders the right 

 to look after the foreign birds which are 

 in no danger of being extirpated any- 

 where and of denying the right to look 

 after our indigenous grouse quail and 

 other game which rapidly are being ex- 

 terminated. Many states now permit 

 the, breeding of all species and New 

 York appears to be quite behind the 

 times. 



WHY? 



A few out of town game breeders who 

 called at the office of the Game Con- 

 servation Society after the meeting 01 

 the American Protective Association, 

 seemed to be much disappointed at the 

 action of the Association in sending to a 

 committee Mr. Titcomb's proposition to 

 permit the breeders of other states to 

 sell their game in New York, just as 

 English, French and other foreign breed- 

 ers do. As we understand the matter, 

 the resolution was sent to a committee 

 after the chairman had referred to it as 

 a "bomb," and the committee was given 

 a year to report. A western breeder 

 said this, of course, was intended to kill 

 the proposition. 



We fail to understand why the Amer- 

 ican Association persists, as it did last 

 year, in keeping the Association a purely 

 local affair. We have thousands of 

 breeders in other states who should have 

 as much right in New York as foreign- 

 ers have, -and, as we have pointed out 

 before, New York can not be popular 

 with the other states so long as it sends 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars abroad 

 annually for game and refuses to permit 

 our readers to get the good prices for 

 the food they produce. 



We regret much that we did not see 

 Mr. Titcomb when he was in New York. 

 He is one of the best state game officers 

 in the United States, and we are told 

 that he said Vermont could (and would, 

 if permitted) send a lot of venison and 

 game birds, properly identified, to the 

 New York market, and that this would 

 result in a much larger production of 

 game than there is at present. 



We still hope the legislature will show 



