T he Game Breeder 



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



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



VOLUME IX 



JULY, 1916 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 4 



Good Work in Iowa. 



One of our Iowa readers says the last 

 Legislature of Iowa was the first to 

 make any provision for game breeding 

 in this State ; the amendment provides : 



"Any person desiring to engage in 

 the business of raising and selling 

 pheasants, wild duck, quail and other 

 game birds or any of them in a wholly 

 enclosed preserve or enclosure of which 

 he is the owner or lessee, may make ap- 

 plication in writing to the State Fish and 

 Game Warden for a license so< to do. 

 That the State Fish and Game Warden, 

 when it shall appear that such application 

 is made in good faith, shall upon the 

 payment of an annual fee of $2 issue to 

 such applicant a breeder's license per- 

 mitting such applicant to breed and raise 

 the above described game birds or other 

 game birds, or any of them, on such 

 preserve or enclosure ; and to sell the 

 same alive at any time for breeding or 

 stocking purposes; and to kill and use 

 the same ; or sell same for food. Such 

 license must be renewed annually upon 

 the payment of the fee as hereinbefore 

 set forth and the possession of such 

 license shall exempt the license holder 

 from the penalties of this chapter for 

 killing, having in possession or selling 

 the game birds or any of them set forth 

 in this section ; provided that said birds 

 have been bred and raised upon the said 

 preserve or within said enclosure by the 

 license holder or secured by him by pur- 

 chase from without the State of Iowa." 



An Educational Game Farm. 



Mr. E. C. Hinshaw, the State Fish and 

 Game Warden, says he is endeavoring to 

 build and maintain a large game farm 



and run it in a way to use it as an educa- 

 tional place for those who are interested 

 in that line of work. He also writes : 

 "We are doing considerable in the way 

 of destroying vermin around the game 

 reserves where we are stocking the place 

 with birds and hope to arrange so that 

 all of these places will be patrolled not 

 only for the protection of the birds from 

 hunters but for the destroying of those 

 things that are enemies of bird life." 



The Iowa Game Department. 



The Iowa State game department 

 should soon become of great economic 

 importance to all the people of the State. 

 Those who shoot will find the shooting 

 much improved just as it has been in 

 Massachusetts and other States where 

 many people are engaged in breeding 

 game for profit as well as for sport. 

 The people of Iowa soon will have an 

 abundance of game to eat during long 

 open seasons. The hotels will be pleased 

 to learn that soon they can serve game 

 to their guests and the dealers will be 

 quite willing to sell the desirable food. 



It is to be hoped that the Iowa game 

 farm will plant fields especially for the 

 prairie grouse and quail and will demon- 

 strate that it is an easy matter to have 

 these birds abundant and evenly distrib- 

 uted in every field on a farm and that 

 the abundance will not only be found 

 detrimental to agriculture but highly 

 beneficial. The cost of rearing quail and 

 grouse in a wild state is very small 

 when compared with the hand rearing 

 of pheasants since the wild bred birds 

 will find most of their food in the fields 

 and woods. We predict that Iowa soon 

 will become a big game producing State 



