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has it been more evident that the enact- 

 ment of many game laws did not pro- 

 duce the desirable food for the people to 

 eat; in no State are the possibilities for 

 excellent shooting better than they are 

 in Iowa. The farms of Iowa can be 

 made to yield grouse and quail abund- 

 antly provided the sportsmen and farmers 

 work harmoniously and the conditions 

 under which game can exist be restored. 

 Prairie grouse cannot survive on closely 

 cultivated areas where their winter foods 

 are destroyed and where a little shooting 

 is added to the destruction of the birds 

 by their natural enemies. The farms in 

 Iowa easily can be made to yield an 

 abundance of game for the people to eat 

 and for the sportsmen to shoot provided 

 small covers and food areas can be main- 

 tained and provided the natural enemies 

 of the game be controlled to make a 

 place for the shooting. A profitable 

 game farm in every county would soon 

 make the game plentiful and cheap in 

 the markets. The sportsmen of all 

 classes will be benefited when some of 

 them create a game preserve since the 

 game will overflow as it does in other 

 States from the game preserve. 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



Here's my renewal. Keep up your 

 . good work. Would not miss a copy of 

 your magazine. 



Wisconsin. E. G. Showers. 



It Pays to Subscribe. 



A man in Sherman County, Oregon, 

 subscribed for The Oregon Sportsman, 

 went home and told his wife what he 

 had done. She was so pleased with his 

 sportsmanship that- on the following day 

 she presented him with a ten pound boy 

 Possibly there would have been twins had 

 he also subscribed for The Game 



Breeder. 



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Ex Post Facto Towel Law. 



The roller towel has been rather gen- 

 erally killed off and forgotten in Massa- 

 chusetts public places, but it lingershere 

 and there in remote spots. A Boston 

 man just back from a business trip 

 through* some of the small places of 



Western Massachusetts tells of finding 

 one of the things in the washroom of a 

 country hotel. 



"Say," he said to a companion washer, 

 a native, "doesn't the man that runs this 

 hotel know that the roller towel is 

 against the law?" 



"Sure, he knows it," answered the 

 native, as he combed his spare locks with 

 the chained comb hanging from the wall, 

 "but that law wasn't passed when this 

 towel was put up." 



Quick Returns. 



A Scotchman was telling an Irish 

 neighbor of his with great pride how he 

 had planted an acorn which sprang up 

 into a fine oak tree. 



"Begorra, that's nothing," commented 

 Pat, unimpressed. "Sure an' I once 

 planted a dead cat, and in a short time 

 up sprang a sanitary inspector." 



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Rebuffed. 



In the early morn the fresh city 

 boarder met the rustic dairymaid carry- 

 ing a couple of foaming milk pails. 



"Ah, good morning, my dear," he 

 said, patronizingly. "How is the milk- 

 maid?" 



" 'Tain't made at all, kind sir," she 

 said. "We take it from th' cows." — 

 Chicago Herald. 



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A Healthy Disease. 



Laziness is a disease, declares one of 

 the eminent doctors. The surprising 

 fact is that most of the victims of the 

 disease always look so distressingly 

 healthy.— Providence Journal. 



A Good War Horse. 



A professor who had bought a shabby 

 looking horse asked his coachman to try 

 it. After the animal had been trotted 

 around the road a few times the pro- 

 fessor asked Pat : 



"What do you think of him?" 

 "Be dad, he'd make a fine war horse," 

 said Pat. 



. "Why, how is that?" asked the pro- 

 fessor. • 



" "Because," said Pat, "he'd sooner die 

 than run." 



