THE GAME BREEDER 



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new law opening the New York market 

 to game produced by industry in other 

 States (as recommended by The Game 

 Breeder) is sufficient to make the New 

 York commissioner popular with. all who 

 prefer "more game" to "more game 

 laws." Mr. Pratt should not be blamed 

 for only permitting the people to have 

 certain species of game to eat. New 

 York is the headquarters for game law 

 nonsense. It will not be long, we are 

 sure, before the profitable breeding and 

 sale of all species of game is permitted. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



A sportsman may take "-out a special 

 license for $5.00 to bring a deer from 

 Maine into New York. After he pays 

 $1.00 New York license and $15.00 

 Maine non-resident license, he can get 

 the deer home if he pays $5.00 more. 

 This is ridiculous. F. S. 



New York City. 



[Yes, if nonsense is ridiculous, when some 

 graft is attached, it is quite ridiculous. Deer 

 should not be so dear. There is a promising 

 "revival of common sense" which promises to 

 put an end to nonsense.] 

 Editor Game Breeder: 



I wish to receive every copy of The 

 Game Breeder, as I find it very interest- 

 ing and helpful. 



H. S. Little. 



Massachusetts. 



NOTES ABOUT WILD FOWL. 



By E. D. Pickell. 



Mr. E. D. Pickell, in a letter to The 

 Game Breeder, says he has about decided 

 to move to a warmer climate where he 

 can breed all varieties of wild game. 



I notice he says that some Eastern 

 breeders claim that mallard drakes will 

 mate with four females; that sounds 

 strange to me. In all my years of ex- 

 perience with wild mallards I have never 

 known of a genuine wild mallard drake 

 to mate up in the spring with more than 

 one female of the genuine wild variety. 

 I have had them kill one female when I 

 tried to mate them with two. 



Of course you can find scattered all 

 over this country breeders who claim to 



have genuine wild mallards. I bought a 

 bunch of such birds four years ago. 

 After I had paid the express and got 

 them out of the crates I was so dis- 

 gusted that (I won't say what I said) 

 they quickly went the way of the market 

 duck. 



I have never been able to mate any 

 variety of wild ducks or geese with more 

 than one male of genuine wild blood. 

 Neither have I ever known of a genuine 

 wild mallard female laying when only 

 one year old. I have known pintailed 

 ducks to do so but never a mallard. 



I notice in my letter in the March 

 Game Breeder an error which . I wish 

 you would correct. I wrote .you of my 

 pair of hybred geese. The paragraph 

 reads, "my white-fronted gander crossed 

 with a Canada goose." It should have 

 read, "a white-fronted gander crossed 

 with a Canada goose." I got them from 

 the Evans Game Farm in Illinois. Please 

 correct this and give Mr. Evans the 

 credit which belongs to him. 



Good News From Canada. 



One of our Canadian readers writes 

 that the minister in charge of game for 

 the Province of Quebec has decided that 

 he will issue licenses to any responsible 

 persons who wish to go into the business 

 of game breeding. and they may acquire 

 specimens of the various, birds. 



Mr. Chambers, he says, has suggested 

 that a license be made out in the name of 

 the writer without any charge whatever,, 

 as a starter. 



A good start, surely. 



Trap Shooting Leagues. 



We have received from the Du Pont 

 Powder Company, Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware, a very good book about "Trap 

 Shooting Leagues." Since all of the 

 game clubs have traps and shoot many 

 clay pigeons our readers will be inter- 

 ested in this book. It is for free distri- 

 bution. Write for it if you want it. 



The laws should promptly be amended 

 everywhere so as to permit the profitable 

 breeding of all species of game. 



