54 THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?. e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



have remarked at other times it is better 

 to kill nonsense piecemeal than not to 

 kill it at all. We now propose that the 

 laws be amended still further so that it 

 edited by dwight w. huntington w ju no t b e criminal to eat any kind of 



food, produced by industry within or 



NEW YORK, MAY, 1916. without the State. Such an amendment 



will soon make the quail, grouse, wild 



terms: turkeys and many species of water fowl 



10 Cents a Copy— $1.00 a year in Advance. as plentiful as the pheasants, deer and 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. ducks nOW are in the hands of game 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



breeders. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 



PUBLISHERS, 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK QUR GROTJSE AND QUAIL. 



D. W. Huntington, President, . 



f. r. Peixotio, Treasurer, Forest and Stream in its last issue 



j. c Huntington, secretary seems to have abandoned all hope of 



Telephone, Beekman 36s5. ever having any native game in America 



===^==^^= and seems glad to learn that pheasants 



AT LAST. reared in captivity can be made to take 



The New York legislature has decided the place of our quail and grouse, 

 to take our advice and has opened the We are pleased to say that the United 

 markets to some species of game pro- States is now, probably, the third largest 

 duced by breeders in other States. It is pheasant producing country in the 

 quite absurd, of course, to only permit world ; that it probably has more pheas- 

 breeders to sell elk and deer, since the ants of certain species than China, where 

 antelope needs their money and protec- the pheasants are indigenous: and that 

 tion far more than the elk and deer do. soon we will be the biggest pheasant pro- 

 It is absurd to encourage the saving and ducing country in the world, 

 production of pheasants and common Forest and Stream will be surprised to 

 wild ducks only while the indigenous learn that our ruffed grouse soon will be 

 grouse, quail and wild turkeys need the abundant and cheap in our markets, and 

 attention of breeders far more than the also the quail, prairie grouse, wild tur- 

 pheasants and the ducks do. keys and other game, during long open 



Some States now permit the breeding seasons. We know a number of places 



and the marketing of all species of game where there are as many ouail per acre 



and we have advised the owners of quail as is desirable; more would probably re- 



and grouse that we will sell their birds suit in diseases due to over-crowding, 



for them at excellent prices even if the We know places where there is an 



people of New York are not permitted abundance of ruffed grouse in the woods 



to eat the native food as the people in and where the shooting is good every 



more civilized States can. The Hotel season. 



Men's Associations of the State and City The delay in making the indigenous 



of New York and the game dealers are grouse and quail plentiful in many places 



entitled to much credit for seeing the has been due to game laws preventing 



new statute safely in the books. We the shooting of decent bags and the sale 



have congratulated them privately and f the birds by those who look after 



we now wish to publicly thank them. All them properly. 



intelligent sportsmen and game breeders Ruffed grouse and quail can be pro- 

 favored the amendment and many let- duced in big numbers much cheaper than 

 ters went to Albany from our readers, pheasants can be produced since easily 

 including State game officers in other they are handled in a wild state. There 

 States. Credit, of course, is due the should be some incentive, however, to do 

 magazine chiefly for suggesting that an t he necessarv work, which, briefly stated, 

 end be put to the legal nonsense. As we } s the protection of the birds from their 



