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with tha ten reesuns given bye Mr. All- quail will be shot. We shall give special 



doo Leopold, why the Supreem Coart uv attention to quail and grouse breeding 



tha Unitted States shud not be purmitted during the coming year, 



to declair this law unconstytooshinul. Undoubtedly the United States will be 



This reminds me uv a lawyer who wus the biggest pheasant producing country 



hired to defend a frind uv mine. Said in the world within five years at the 



he too tha Judge : "I have ten reasons present rate of increase. We are inclined 



why me cliant kant be in coart today, to believe that already we have more wild 



Tha furst reesun is that me cliant is dead, ducks than any country in the world and 



The second reason is " "Hold on," the numbers rapidly are increasing. More 



sed tha Judge, "tha first reesun is suffi- wild fowl are marketed, no doubt, m 



shunt; don't take up too much time uv England than in America, but this is be- 



tha coart tellin' about tha other nine cause about 5,000 market gunners are 



reesuns. Tha defendunt is disscharged permitted to shoot wild fowl in England 



fur want uv jurisdiction uv this coart too with huge punt guns. Ducks are brought 



try tha case, so I hope he is resting easy to the market from the public waters just 



in hell. Call the next case." as fish are in large numbers. The Louis- 



If this Fedderul law is uphelled bye iana, California and some other markets 



tha Supream Coart, us Missourians will are creditable. We believe we have as 



take our meddisin, but I kant garrantee many or probably more wild ducks than 



that tha "gaime hogs" will sell ther shoot- the English markets have. 



in' irons and quit that skatter gun gaime ; = 



I rathur expect thay will all buy raleroad Farm Values. 



tickets fur New Mexico, wher tha state We received a long and interesting let- 

 is all covered with watterfoul and tha ter from one of our New York readers 

 jacksnipe and road runners is basking in who wishes to purchase a farm of 250 

 tha sun, while tha jack rabbits is chaising acres in Virginia for game farming. It 

 the coyotes throo tha mesquite and tha will be interesting to learn if the sale of 

 magpies is learning how too talk by hoi- this farm is prevented by "fool" game 

 lerin' "gaime hog" too tha hunters frum laws prohibiting the profitable production 

 tha Middul West fur introoding into tha of food. We are investigating this sub- 

 State uv New Mexico. J ect an d we hope to publish a full state- 

 Yours respeckfully ment of the facts in our next issue. 

 Michael Joseph Flannigan. Farms where game can be produced and 



Saint Louie, Missouri. sold, at present prices, are worth twice 



Sportsmen's Review. as much as farms where the owners are 



= hable to arrest for food producing. 



Rapid Progress. = 



We are well pleased with the results Ohio. 



obtained by elk and deer breeders and By a singular coincidence an Ohio 



by the breeders of pheasants and wild farmer called at the office of The Game 



ducks. Hundreds of deer breeders have Breeder the same day we received the 



deer. Thousands now own pheasants inquiry about purchasing a farm in Vir- 



and ducks; in many cases the numbers ginia. Our Ohio friend when we asked 



are surprising. We have inquiries as to him why he had sold his farm and left 



where the most birds will be shot next the State, said he would not live in a 



fall. We are quite sure the biggest bag State which prohibited quail shooting and 



which we will report will run over five prevented the increase of this desirable 



thousand birds. We have an idea where bird. He says he has many quail, ruffed 



this will be done and we will report the grouse and other game birds on his new 



shoot later. place and enjoys living in a State where 



The game laws have retarded the in- there is more freedom than there is in 



crease of the quail and grouse in some Ohio. We are a little surprised that 



States but at a number of places the bags more farmers do not appeal to the farm 



will run over a thousand birds in Novem- journals to help them secure game breed- 



ber and at a few places several thousand ers' laws in the slow States. 





