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THE GAME BREEDER 



tiful from the ever-changing game, fox, 

 hawk, crow and other vermin enactments 

 which are a never failing delight to those 

 who prefer the game law industry to 

 game breeding or field sports. 



We regard it as a fine thing to see the 

 game rapidly restored to the market. It 

 has added much to the value of many 

 country places. We would advise M'r. 

 Lippincott to cease thinking about 

 whether the things he refers to, "may 

 become live issues in other States," and 

 to devote his energies to seeing that the 

 farms which have game become exempt 

 from the ever changing "live issues," 

 which too often destroy the value of 

 country places which should receive an 

 excellent revenue from their game. 



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No Animal Heads in Mails. 



Reno, Nev., March 25. — Coyote and 

 wild cat heads by parcel post proved too 

 much for the patience of Fred L. White, 

 postmaster of Reno, and he took the 

 question of the right to make such ship- 

 ments by mail up with the Postmaster 

 General. He has just received informa- 

 tioa that such articles are not mailable 

 and cannot be delivered if mailed. The 

 heads have been coming in lately in large 

 numbers from different parts of the 

 States. They are sent in to the State 

 University for examination for rabies. — 

 The World, New York. 



Parcel Post Shipments of Game. 



The Fish and Game Commission has 

 been making such a strenuous fight 

 against the market hunters who* ship 

 their game to the San Francisco mar- 

 kets by express, that it has become ex- 

 ceedingly dangerous for the shippers to 

 send illegally shipped birds by that 

 method ; the chances of having them con- 

 fiscated are too many. Some of the 

 hunters for a time resorted to the mails, 

 sending birds by parcel post, knowing 

 that the deputies of the Commission did 

 not have the same opportunity to inspect 

 postal shipments as they did express. 



Investigation showed that according to 

 the California law, all game offered for 

 shipment must be at all times in open 

 view. The postal regulations provide 

 that game must be carefully wrapped in 

 order to prevent damage to other mail 



matter. But the United States regula- 

 tions also provide that all game offered 

 for shipment must be strictly in accord 

 with all of the provisions of the State 

 laws, 



How these conflicting provisions have 

 been brought into accord is explained by 

 the following letter received from the 

 post office department at Washington: 



Washington, D. C, Jan. 28, 1916. 



Fish and Game Commission, 



Mills Building, 



San Francisco, California. 



Gentlemen: Receipt is acknowledged 

 of your communication of the 17th in- 

 stant advising this office that 



"Section 627b of the Penal Code 



of the State of California provides 



that game offered for shipment or 



transportation must be at all times 



in open view." 



In reply I have to say that the Act of 

 Congress of March 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 

 1137, embodied in section 477 }4, Postal 

 Laws and Regulations, a copy of which 

 is enclosed, prohibits the shipment of 

 dead bodies, or parts thereof, of any 

 game animals or birds killed or offered 

 for shipment in violation of the laws of 

 the State, territory or district in which 

 killed or offered for shipment, and since 

 the laws of the State of California do 

 not permit the shipment of the dead 

 bodies of animals or birds when 

 wrapped, postmasters in that State must, 

 of course, govern themselves accord- 

 ingly. The dead bodies of wild animals 

 or birds may be accepted for transmis- 

 sion in the mails only when wrapped so 

 as to prevent injury to other mail, and 

 it is not practicable to handle shipments 

 of such matter by parcel post in the 

 manner required by the California laws. 

 Respectfully, 

 (Signed) A. M. DOCKERY, 

 Third Assistant Postmaster General. 

 — California Fish and Game. 



Old Corn. 



Almost as much interest is being man- 

 ifested in Kansas over some Aztec corn 

 1,000 years old as would be stirred up 

 in Kentucky upon the receipt of some 

 corn juice of similar antiquity. — Arkan- 

 sas Gazette. 



