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THE GAME BREEDER 



promises better conditions than ever ex- 

 isted without it. 



Mr. Lawyer has always been a sports- 

 man. He was born in Watertown Sep- 

 tember 15, 1876, and it is related of him 

 that when a small boy in knee trousers 

 he frequently played hookey at school 

 and betook himself to some quiet trout 

 stream, with the appearance of the first 

 Warm days of spring. When he got older 

 he developed a desire for partridge hunt- 

 ing. Since then he has never lost 'an 

 opportunity to test his wits with the birds, 

 the beasts and the fish. 



In 1894 Mr. Lawyer was graduated 

 from the Watertown High School. On 

 September 30, 1897, he was admitted to 

 the bar and opened an office of his own, 

 continuing the practice of law up to the 

 present time. 



Realizing the necessity for some or- 

 ganization for better protection of game 

 propagation in Jefferson County, New 

 York, in the fall of 1908, thirteen sports- 

 men assembled in the office of Mr. Law- 

 yer and organized the Jefferson County 

 Sportmen's Association, choosing him as 

 its first president. This position he held 

 for four years, and during the first two 

 the membership grew from thirteen to 

 eight hundred. 



Four years ago, about the time that 

 he relinquished the presidency of this 

 association, he was chosen president of 

 the New York State Fish, Game and 

 Forest League, a state organization for 

 the furthering of better game laws and 

 game conditions. This position he also 

 held for four years, refusing to accept 

 it again at the annual election held a 

 few months ago. 



As the head of the New York State 

 Fish, Game and Forest League during 

 the same year, Mr. Lawyer started a 

 campaign for more game farms — there 

 being but one in the state at that time — 

 located at Sherburne. Governor Glynn 

 granted him a conference, and at the 

 head of a delegation of sportsmen, about 

 two hundred and fifty strong, he went 

 before the governor at the time appointed 

 armed with a brief prepared in detail 

 showing the amount paid to the State 

 each year by hunters for licenses, and 

 the small return that the State gave them 



for this revenue. He showed the corr • 

 mercial and economic value of these 

 farms to the hotels and railroads and 

 made it plain that the sportsmen were 

 going to begin a vigorous campaign to 

 have the hunting license law repealed if 

 something were not done. 



Four new game farms were asked. 

 The governor promised that he would 

 favor a bill that provided for two, on 

 the understanding that no location in 

 particular be specified. He agreed not 

 to sign any bill of a local nature should 

 one pass the legislature and be presented 

 to him. The bill was prepared and $15,- 

 000 each for two game farms appro- 

 priated. One of these was established at 

 Dexter, Jefferson County, and last year 

 four thousand pheasants and twenty-five 

 thousand pheasant eggs were distributed 

 for propagation, while at Sherburne the 

 number was five thousand birds and 

 twenty-five thousand eggs. The second 

 farm provided for in the bill has been 

 established on Long Island, and this year 

 it is expected that fifteen thousand birds 

 and seventy-five thousand eggs (from all 

 the farms) for stocking covers will be 

 distributed. 



It was Mr. Lawyer that brought pheas- 

 ants into northern New York, when he 

 formed his county sportsmen's associa- 

 tion, for until then these game birds 

 were not known in that section of the 

 State. Now there are fully ten thou- 

 sand birds in the covers. At the begin- 

 ning Mr. Lawyer raised many of these 

 birds himself, and even now has a small 

 number of fancy breeds. 



No man better qualified for the posi- 

 tion to which he has just been appointed 

 could have been chosen. 



Concerning the Federal Migratory 

 Bird Law, of which he will have the 

 administration, Mr. Lawyer has ideas 

 which are sensible' and which will be so 

 regarded by every sportsman in the 

 country. He proposes to see that the 

 law is enforced and the government pro- 

 tected, but in the minds of those who 

 know him there is no question but that 

 the sportsmen as well as the government 

 will be satisfied with him and his acts. 



Co-operation is the thing he proposes 

 to strive for in carrying out his work. 



