118 THE GAME BREEDER 



Food for Wild Ducks. am always indignant when I hear of more 



Mr. Jasper B. White soon will make or less slaughter of this kind. What will 



an extended trip to visit old customers our fields and woods look like if grace- 



who have planted his sago pond weed and fully soaring hawks are forever elimi- 



other foods and to see many new ones nated from the view and if the land and 



who wish his advice about planting, its crops are throughout the day given 



Readers who wish to procure sago, celery over to rodent pests ? 

 or other duck foods are advised to write I" comments upon the same State's 



to Mr. J. B. White, Waterlilly, N. C. game laws appears the statement that it 



He has many testimonials from people is against the law to kill or injure foxes 



who have planted his foods. Mr. White in Ohio. Verily, here is a puzzle. Is 



expects to visit The Game Breeder befon there any wild fox that does not destroy 



long when local customers will have an more birds; more four footed game ani- 



opportunity of conferring with him. Let- uials and more chickens than a hawk ? 



ters addressed to Mr. White, care of Does the rather small value of his pelt 



The Game Breeder, will be forwarded repay the depredation of years? 

 promptly while he is on his Northern These things may become live issues 



trip. in other States and it is well to carefully 



. _, , 7~* 7" __ , consider them from all sides before it is. 



A State s Attack on Hawks. too i ate .— Guide to Nature. 

 Joseph W. Lippincott. . 



The Hawk Bounty Law in Ohio' has Ants and Ant Eggs. 



according to Assistant Inspector Major ne of our readers writes to say that 



Charles Becht s estimate led to the kill- he can ther lent of ant but he 



mg of 10,000 birds in that State since also thers the ants with the and 



last June. The killing is still going on, he wishes to know how tQ separate them ^ 



the bounty paid being one dollar per We referred the quest ion to one of the 



hawk— a high reward to put upon the best ke in the count and he 



heads of birds which other States find Hed that he purchased his alrt eggs 



the average gunner only too prone to from The s tts p atent Ltd Newark 



shoot without such incentive and even New j and was unable tQ solye the 



the sanction of the law. problem. We would like to hear from 



Many of us know the great good cer- the s ^ iW th can soWe the 



tain hawks do in killing off numbers of riddle and Jt be th would bke to 



destructive little rodents whose ranks if have some of the abundant eggs after the 



unrestrained can increase five to six fold ants are eliminated. 



in a year or even less time. 1 hat thou- 



sands of valuable hawks must perish an 



be thus lost to communities as mousers The Egg Market. 

 and insect destroyers in order that a few Breeders are sending reports of the 

 rascals in their ranks may pay the just number of eggs sold and the prices real- 

 penalty of misdeeds seems to me a great ized this season. Those who advertised 

 pity. early and persistently say they are well 

 We may all unite in condemning four pleased with the results. One (who says 

 kinds of hawks, for they are proved to this letter is not for publication since 

 be enemies of other birds and therefore we remember the old adage, "Fools' 

 also of men — they are the sharpshin, the names like fools' faces are always seen 

 goshawk, the cooper and the peregrin in public places") writes that he sold 

 falcon, commonly called the duck hawk all of his pheasant eggs, between one 

 because of its predisposition to kill wild and two thousand, at $25 per hundred, 

 ducks. To such a black list one might Pheasants were sold at $5 each as the 

 also add that big night marauder, the breeding season approached and he could 

 great horned owl. It is an easy matter not fill his orders. Quail sold for $36 

 to find in any library pictures of these per dozen and later he says he was of- 

 destroyers in order to distinguish them, fered $60 per dozen for these birds and 

 As a farmer as well as a bird lover I could not supply them. 



