T he . Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter. July 9, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 



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



VOLUME IX 



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SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 2 



An Open Market. 



The New York market is now open to 

 sale of certain game produced by game 

 breeders in the other States. It is a pity 

 that only a few common species can 

 come in but soon we will give the quail 

 grouse and other game the same benefits 

 now extended to pheasants, ducks and 

 deer. 



Get Busy. 



Game breeders in all of the States 

 should get busy. Game brings splendid 

 prices in New York and there is a big 

 demand. We shall publish market re- 

 ports and prices from time to time and 

 always we are glad to give our many 

 readers information as to how and where 

 to sell the game they produce. 

 Game Breeding Clubs. 



Game Breeding Clubs, composed of 

 sportsmen of moderate means, now can 

 be safely organized everywhere. The 

 sale of part of the game can be made 

 to pay all or a good part of the running 

 expenses. Our advice is to breed far 

 more than you can possibly eat and to 

 shoot some big bags for the people 

 to eat at excellent prices. You can 

 make the people friendly to sport and 

 pay your running expenses. We hope 

 some clubs will declare cash dividends. 

 Massachusetts. 



The Massachusetts Commissioners 

 have issued another very good Report — 

 as usual. It opens with the statement: 

 "Attention is again called to the peculi- 

 arly favorable opportunities for inten- 

 sive utilization of latent food-producing 

 resources. It is reasonable to state that 

 few departments of government reach so 

 directly and intimately the vital inter- 



ests of all the people as does the depart- 

 ment of fisheries and game, not alone as 

 stimulating recreative and health-produc- 

 ing sports, but even more by assisting in 

 the annual production of important food. 

 Fresh-water fish, birds and game are 

 peculiarly responsive to correct methods 

 of artificial propagation. Similarly, 

 methods for increasing production must 

 be applied to the salt-water fisheries and 

 other natural resources of the common- 

 wealth." 



The Massachusetts Commission long 

 has been right in its ideas that all of the 

 people should have game and fish to eat 

 and there is abundant evidence in the 

 report that the Commission still believes 

 in the encouragement of game and fish 

 breeding for sport and for profit. Many 

 State game officers can learn much from 

 Massachusetts. 



Behind the Times. 



California Fish and Game, describing 

 the work of one of our members, Mr. 

 Charles Shaw, who is rearing wild ducks 

 on the Briggs ranch, says: "For many 

 years past the preserves of Great Britain 

 have reared thousands of wild fowl and 

 used them to augment shooting, but little 

 has been done in this direction in the 

 United States." 



This is quite an error. Wonders have 

 been performed in the United States. 

 Many clubs now have thousands of 

 hand-reared ducks and some of our 

 members who have their own duck 

 plants in other States had many ducks 

 for sale last year and were disgusted be- 

 cause they could only get 50 cents each 

 for them in the local markets, while New 

 York breeders were getting $3.00 and 

 even $4.00 a brace for all the ducks they 



