THE GAME BREEDER 



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every single one was a hen. Although the 

 cock stands out in the open, he is strong and 

 big and able to protect himself, while the hen 

 is not. 



Since on another page in the same 

 publication the statement is made, quot- 

 ing the Silverton Appeal, that "the days 

 of the hunting dog are numbered," we 

 think it would be a good plan for the 

 State Game Department to suggest to 

 the county rod and gun clubs that they 

 arrange with the farmers to have some 

 good shooting on the farms at both hens 

 and cocks with the aid of good dogs. 

 Every game protective association should 

 have a good shooting ground for its mem- 

 bers and the farmers can furnish the 

 ground as they now do in other States at 

 reasonable rates. 



Survey of Our Field. 



The country is so big that there is 

 plenty of room even for a few thousand 

 more game laws, state, provincial, na- 

 tional, migratory, etc., etc. All we ask is 

 that they be kept off of the farms used 

 for game. As an experiment, a few of 

 them might be applied to poultry. At the 

 end ,of a year or two, at most, there 

 would not be a single fowl alive. There 

 is plenty of room for the quiet refuges 

 for game where foxes and other vermin 

 can feast on it. Our field really seems to 

 be a narrow one. We only concern our- 

 selves about the interests of those who 

 wish to have an abundance of game and 

 game fish for sport or for profit. Being 

 specialists, however, we are always on 

 the job. We help to reform the laws; 

 we help create game farms, shoots and 

 preserves ; we plan for many small breed- 

 ers, and we see that every one who 

 wants game or game fish is sure to have 

 an abundance, and that those who sell 

 game get good prices. 



Advice to Game Breeders. 



Game breeders who advertise in the 

 magazine should remember that it is per- 

 sistent advertising which pays. No mat- 

 ter if one has sold out he should not drop 

 out of sight on that account. He surely 

 will find his customers making new ac- 

 quaintances and purchasing elsewhere. 

 Without much trouble an advertiser can 



procure from another reliable breeder the 

 eggs or birds which his customer wants 

 and often he can make at least a small 

 profit on the transaction since breeders 

 often are willing to accommodate each 

 other. We are sure from what they have 

 told us that those who keep in all the 

 time have better results than those who 

 only send an advertisement at certain 

 seasons. Prospective customers are most 

 likely to send orders to those whose ad- 

 vertisements are always before them. 



The magazine is doing a big work for 

 its advertisers, opening whole States to 

 the game breeding industry and reducing 

 the restrictions everywhere. Adver- 

 tisers who appreciate this work adver- 

 tise by the year. 



Advice to Members. 



Members of the Game Conservation 

 Society should and, we believe, to a large 

 extent, they do patronize those who sup- 

 port the magazine by advertising in it. 

 When we go to visit the numerous game 

 clubs we are always pleased to' find the 

 shooters using the birds, eggs, foods, guns 

 and ammunition advertised in The Game 

 Breeder. 



The Ohio Fox. 



In comments upon the State game 

 laws appears the statement that it is 

 against the law to kill or injure foxes in 

 Ohio, says J. W. Lippincott. Is there 

 any wild fox, he asks, that does not 

 destroy more birds, more four-footed 

 game animals and more chickens than a 

 hawk? These things, he says, may be- 

 come live issues in other States and it 

 is well to carefully consider them. 



Since many game protective associa- 

 tions have developed a wonderful appe- 

 tite for game laws among many sports- 

 men it seems impossible to secure any 

 simple uniform and stable laws relating 

 to the taking of game and the control of 

 vermin. All we ask is to keep the game 

 laws and the vermin laws off of the game 

 farms and preserves where game is 

 plentiful and where restrictive laws if 

 they should be executed or obeyed surely 

 would exterminate the game. We have' 

 arranged in many States to have game 

 breeders' enactments which in effect ex- 

 empt the places where game is made plen- 



