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THE GAME BREEDER 



see that the foxes and other animals de- 

 structive to game are properly controlled 

 on game farms. There is plenty of room 

 in Kentucky for the splendid sport of 

 fox hunting without running the hounds 

 through farms where game is propagated 

 abundantly. 



Kentucky now has a good game breed- 

 ers' law and no doubt there will be fox 

 breeding counties in Kentucky where 

 this sport predominates and game breed- 

 ing counties where game is bred abun- 

 dantly, just as there are counties in Eng- 

 land where one or the other sport is 

 more common. English writers say it is 

 a difficult matter to rear game in fox 

 hunting counties, but they manage to 

 have both game and foxes on some 

 estates. We have pointed out often that 

 the owners of the premises should decide 

 what they will entertain and the two new 

 Kentucky laws seem to carry out this 

 idea. 



The "More Game" Movement. 



The "more game" movement seems ro 

 be gaining great headway in the Central 

 States. It is flourishing in New Eng 

 land. Rapidly it is flowing into Califor- 

 nia, where soon it will be an organized 

 force. The wave of common sense which 

 it represents soon will make it easy for 

 State game officers, everywhere from 

 Maine to California, to permit the sale 

 of any kind of food produced by industry 

 on a farm. It really seems to be an odd 

 crime — "food producing!" We have of- 

 ten thought if some one (especially one 

 of the many women, who are now pro- 

 ducing quail and other foods) would go 

 to jail for a short time for profitably 

 producing food on a farm, and let us use 

 a photograph of the prisoner behind the 

 bars, the result would be to quickly put 

 an end to this nonsense for all time to 

 come. There is no possible reason why 

 the American farmers and sportsmen 

 should not have as much freedom as 

 farmers and sportsmen have in all other 

 countries. 



Bully for the Booklet. 



News comes from every State in the 

 Union about the remarkable work being 



done by the Game Breeding Department 

 of the Hercules Powder Company. We 

 have had excellent reports about the 

 booklet, "Game Farming for Profit and 

 Pleasure," issued by this company, and 

 the effect it has had in opening the eyes 

 of the people to the necessity for game 

 farming for profit as well as for pleas- 

 ure. We distributed several thousand 

 copies of this book, and the demand for 

 it still continues. A prominent sports- 

 man from the West, who called at the 

 office of The Game Breeder a few days 

 ago, said he had procured over an hun- 

 dred copies of the book and was con- 

 verting his neighbors to the "more game" 

 idea. 



Harmony. 



Now that the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies has a department of 

 applied ornithology, which works on all 

 fours with the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety, and with the Game Breeding De- 

 partment of the Hercules Powder Com- 

 pany, and the American Protective As- 

 sociation, also, has a committee on game 

 breeding; the harmonious activities of 

 these interests should soon make Amer- 

 ica the biggest game producing country 

 in the world. Game breeding with the 

 Game Conservation Society, which natu- 

 rally leads the "more game" procession, 

 is not a department ; it is the whole show. 



The other societies have a wider range ; 

 the Audubons look after the song birds 

 and all other birds ; the American Asso- 

 ciation takes a special interest in the cre- 

 ation of quiet refuges for game. The 

 Hercules Powder Co., of course, has dy- 

 namite and ammunition powders as a 

 side line; but the fact that we are all 

 pulling together for "more game and 

 fewer game laws" (in so far as breeders 

 are concerned) indicates beyond a rea- 

 sonable doubt that America soon will be 

 the biggest game producing country in 

 the world. 



There is honor enough for all. 



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