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THE GAME BREEDER 



THE STATE AND THE HAWK. 



Mr. Joseph W. Lippincott, Bethayres, 

 Pa., writing about the $1 bounty paid 

 for hawks in Ohio in The Guide to Na- 

 ture, deplores the fact that thousands of 

 valuable hawks must perish and be thus 

 lost to communities as mousers and in- 

 sect destroyers in order that a few ras- 

 cals in their ranks may pay the just pen- 

 alty of misdeeds. 



It does seem a pity for the State to 

 encourage the destruction of all hawks, 

 if such be the case. Some hawks do 

 comparatively little damage and undoubt- 

 edly they do much good. 



We have no doubt that Mr. Lippincott, 

 who says he is a farmer and bird lover, 

 will agree with us that it is proper on 

 game farms to control the hawks which 

 are observed to be eating game. He is 

 aware, no doubt, that when game birds 

 are made abundant for profit or for sport 

 and kept so no hawks are needed to 

 destroy insects. Often there are not 

 enough insects to fully supply the needs 

 of the game and on some preserves it 

 has been found necessary to purchase 

 some insect food and to supply crissel, 

 made by the Spratts, and other animal 

 food for the over-abundant game. As to 

 the rodents on game farms, the pheas- 

 ants, like poultry, will destroy mice and 

 a few smart terriers will destroy more 

 rodents than a good flock of hawks will 

 destroy. The game farmer who pro- 

 duces game for profit or for sport should 

 decide what is beneficial and what is 

 harmful and act accordingly. This he 

 usually does. 



We are by no means in favor of the 

 total destruction of all of the harmful 

 species. We enjoy seeing the high soar- 

 ing hawk and do not object to his striking 

 a game bird once in a while, but we 

 believe he should have to hustle past a 

 pretty good gamekeeper to indulge his 

 appetite for game, and that is just what 

 happens on most game farms and pre- 

 serves. 



Mr. Lippincott complains about an 

 Ohio law. We believe in his own State 

 poison is largely used by the State au- 

 thorities to destroy many species of ver- 

 min and the State has or had a hawk 

 bounty law. We do not pretend to know 



what the laws are at any time in all of 

 the States. They are changed too often 

 for any one to know what they are. 



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Hay Fever. 



The Game Breeder does not accept 

 every advertisement that comes along. 

 Since the magazine is supported by 

 members of the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety it has been deemed wise to care- 

 fully consider an advertisement before 

 accepting it. The hay fever cure adver- 

 tised in this issue has been indorsed by 

 reputable people who have been bene- 

 fited by it. It has been submitted to 

 authorities, National and State, who have 

 decided that it is certainly not injurious. 

 Hay fever comes at a bad time of the 

 year for prairie-chicken shooters and 

 bass-anglers and we would advise the 

 afflicted to write and get the numerous 

 testimonials which have been given the 

 advertiser by those who have been bene- 

 fited. 



The discoverer is a good pheasant 

 breeder and having given the remedy to 

 friends, whose friends in turn wished to 

 try it, an endless chain was soon created, 

 he says, which required too much postage 

 for free distribution. 



Indian Violators in Colorado. 



The year 1914 has been no exception 

 as regards the invasion of Colorado by 

 the Indians from the Uintah and Ouray 

 Reservations in Utah. It has been the 

 custom of these Indians to organize a- 

 band and cross the borders of our State 

 in the vicinity of the Douglas and Pi- 

 ceance Creeks, southwest of Rangely in 

 Rio Blanco County. These trips are 

 usually made in the fall of the year, 

 while the deer are coming down from 

 their summer haunts to the winter feed- 

 ing grounds. 



Early in October the department re- 

 ceived advices to the effect that a band 

 of one hundred Indians, with wagons, 

 tents, and a large number of horses, had 

 crossed our border, and were encamped 

 in the Douglas Creek district. I reported 

 this matter to the Bureau of Indian Af- 

 fairs at Washington, and dispatched sev- 

 eral wardens to the Indian camp, with 



