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THE GAME BREEDER 



breeders, clubs and game preserve 

 owners. 



It is true there have been some, in fact 

 many decided failures where States have 

 brought in thousands of innocent birds 

 and turned them down to feed vermin. 

 Connecticut, Missouri, Indiana, Kansas 

 and other States spent many thousands 

 of dollars for imported birds not one of 

 which was legally shot and the birds prac- 

 tically have vanished like snow on a 

 warm sunny morning. 



In practically every case, however, 

 where the importations were made by or 

 for people who look after their game the 

 increase has been tremendous. At many 

 places a few thousand birds are shot 

 every season. Many are sent to the 

 New York market where they bring ex- 

 cellent prices ; the money is used to pro- 

 duce more game. We shall be glad to 

 get an order from Pine Cone or its 

 readers for an hundred thousand pheas- 

 ants and wild ducks and we will agree 

 that all of the birds will be shipped from 

 American game farms at from $1 to $2 

 less per bird than Pine Cone says was 

 sent abroad for the imported stock. See 

 advertisements in Game Breeder and 

 order now if you want any game. 



We will place an order for a million 

 game birds to be filled in two years' time 

 and we are quite sure our readers will 

 deliver the goods if a small deposit be 

 made to insure good faith. 



Cattle and Quail. 



New Mexico has encouraged or at 

 least permitted the cattle industry. In 

 a report issued by the United States 

 Agricultural Department we read that 

 one of the most interesting and valuable 

 quail formerly found in the Southwestern 

 part of the United States has probably 

 become extinct since cattle were intro- 

 duced on its range. See article in this 

 issue on the masked bobwhite. 



Pine Cone uses a buffalo skull with 

 the words : "Where are the buffaloes ?" as 

 its trade mark and a very fat pig to illus- 

 trate its methods. We can answer the 

 question. Our readers will supply all the 

 buffaloes any New Mexican may want 

 at a fair price. We would like to know 

 on whose ranch they can be introduced 



as sporting animals for the public to 

 shoot. 



A good herd of these animals was sold 

 not long ago to Canada because no one 

 in the United States seemed to want 

 them. Send an order to The Game 

 Breeder, Pine Cone, and we will see that 

 you get some buffaloes — if you need any 

 buffaloes. 



Health Giving Sport. 



Under date of July 2, a press report 

 from Woodsfield, Ohio, brings the fol- 

 lowing announcement of a centenarian's 

 challenge to other Buckeye hunters who 

 are fourscore years — or more — of age : 



"On July 4, John Hally, G. A. R. vet- 

 eran, celebrates his 106th birthday. To- 

 day he issued a coon hunting challenge 

 to any Ohioan over eighty. 



" 'It's the simple life,' the old man de- 

 clared, when some youngsters of fifty 

 asked how he had managed to live so 

 long. 'I've beaten my father now. He 

 died at 103.' 



"Freedom from worry, abstinence 

 from tobacco and intoxicants and plenty 

 of coon hunting is Mr. Hally's recipe if 

 you'd live to be 106." — Sportsmen's Re- 

 view. 



Sword Fish and Sharks. 



Since the unfortunate accidents on the 

 New Jersey coast, where sharks have di- 

 rectly caused the death of two persons, 

 your correspondents have suggested that 

 their presence is due to the Gulf Stream 

 and to the hunger of these rapacious sea 

 wolves. While these statements are true 

 we must remember that the commercial 

 activity shown in capturing swordfish in 

 these latitudes is actually the reason why 

 the waters every year show increase of 

 sharks. 



The sharks will multiply to the harm 

 and danger of the many resorts whose 

 means of revenue is salt water bathing. 

 The swordfish is an enemy of the shark. 

 This is verified by the battles waged on 

 the sea's surface whenever the one meets 

 the other. Protect your swordfish as you 

 protect your birds and your waters will 

 be free of the shark. 



The argument advanced that sharks do 

 not attack human beings is not borne 



