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THE GAME BREEDER 



poses which we have issued as yet are 

 for the raising in captivity of foxes and 

 other fur-bearing animals. 



I send you by this mail a copy of a 

 booklet which I wrote some time ago on 

 this subject and also a copy of the last 

 annual report of this Department. 



E. T. D. Chambers. 



Quebec, Canada. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I heard considerable shooting, mostly 

 black powder, yesterday morning and 

 evening, and again this morning, and I 

 feel certain it was at ducks, as quite a 

 lot of black and wood ducks were 

 hatched in ponds near here. I have ad- 

 vocated the abolition of spring shooting 

 for forty years, but now the Federal 

 authorities have cut off a month of our 

 season when ducks were growing more 

 abundant every year; then they fail ut- 

 terly to enforce the law, thus permitting 

 the ignorant and lawless to shoot while 

 the intelligent (as to game laws) and 

 law-abiding get left. 



The farmers not being permitted to 

 sell, trespassers making life unpleasant, 

 even dangerous, it is to their advantage 

 to permit as little game to breed as pos- 

 sible ; to have as little cover and food as 

 possible. 



A Letter From the Dean. 



Charles Hallock, writing from Wash- 

 ington, D. C, to express his regrets at 

 not being able to attend the dinner of 

 The Game Conservation Society, pre- 

 dicts that the game breeders soon will be 

 numbered by the hundred thousand, 

 "now that the more game campaign seems 

 to have won with flying banners." The 

 dean pointed out the mountains of poli- 

 tics and prejudice we would have to 

 cross, in an interesting letter, when he 

 endorsed the movement at the start and 

 American sportsmen, who wish to see 

 field sports perpetuated, are much in- 

 debted to Hallock, as we often have 



pointed out. 



♦ 



GOOD WORK. 



We thought so well of Mr. Job's book, 

 "The Propagation of Wild Birds," that 



we sent out about 2,500 special letters 

 to members of the Game Conservation 

 Society and clubs associated with it in the 

 good work of producing "more game." 

 This is something the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society never has done before ex- 

 cept for its own publications and we 

 are pleased to observe that our members 

 have purchased many copies of the book. 

 Mr. Job is the head of a new depart- 

 ment of the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies which takes a great 

 interest in game preserving and the 

 amendment of the game laws so as to en- 

 courage this profitable production of the 

 wild food birds. 



A Good Book. 



The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies has sent us an attractive little 

 book on "How to Attract and Protect 

 Wild Birds," written by v Martin Hiese- 

 mann and translated by Emma S. Buch- 

 heim. 



This is an excellent book describing 

 the system of Baron Von Berlepsch, 

 who applied the gamekeepers' methods 

 (of preserving game birds by the de- 

 struction of their enemies providing 

 plantations and covers for nesting and 

 food) to all useful birds with great suc- 

 cess. The book is illustrated with pic- 

 tures of shelters, bird houses, etc. We 

 can send it upon releipt of the price — 

 50 cents. Postage, 6 cents. 



Venison for the Market. 



Venison is sold in the markets of 

 Maine and some other States. Venison 

 produced in New York is sold in the 

 New York markets. Venison from for- 

 eign countries is sold in New York, but 

 venison from Maine, Pennsylvania, New 

 Jersey, Vermont and all the other States 

 which have an abundance of venison 

 can not be sold in New York. 



Many members of The Game Con- 

 servation Society outside of New York 

 now have hundreds of elk and deer but 

 they cannot market their food in the best 

 market, New York City. We invite 

 the attention of The New York Conser- 

 vation Commissioner and the Legislature 



