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THE GAME BREEDER 



T**5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1916. 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $i 25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotio, Treasurer, 



J. C Huntington, Se< retary. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



"The State owns the game." — Game 

 Protectionist. 

 Does the State own the snakes ? 



game by ambush or by a stealthy ap- 

 proach. We hope the story about the 

 attempt of the blacksnake to run down 

 a wild turkey will prompt other readers 

 to contribute to our snake lore. 



Ever since Warren Leach, an Illinois 

 game breeder, pointed out that the State 

 did not own his buffaloes, elk, deer, wild 

 geese and other game, there seems to 

 have been a decided doubt everywhere 

 if the State owns all of the game. Many 

 game farmers now show more game per 

 acre than the State ever dreamed of and 

 the States wisely are permitting the 

 owners of game to sell it. "More sales, 

 more game," of course. 



AN INTERESTING REPORT. 



We are especially interested in the re- 

 ports from the Portage Heights Game 

 Farm, published in this issue. 



The proprietor wrote some time ago 

 that he had expended about ten thousand 

 dollars on game protection, "foolishly as 

 I see it now. Your paper opened my 

 eyes." 



It must be gratifying to the eye to ob- 

 serve 3,000 pheasants and a big lot of 

 wild turkeys on a farm where a few 

 years ago there were only game law re- 

 strictions which prevented the owner 

 from having any game. We hope before 

 long to hear of the sale of a few thou- 

 sand quail from this interesting place. 

 Easily they can be bred wild in the fields 

 and woods now that the "woods-cats," 

 snakes and other vermin are vanishing 

 before an armed force of three guns. 



Three thousand quail easily will sell 

 for $5,000. The force now on the" ground 

 can produce them since if "the keepers 

 look after the vermin the game will look 

 after itself," as Owen Jones said about 

 the gray partridges. 



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"MORE" SNAKES. 



The more game we have the more 

 snakes will surely be destroyed, no matter 

 who owns them. Mr. Williams did a 

 public service when he sent the article, 

 "Snakes and Snakes," which was pub- 

 lished in The Game Breeder for June. 



Last, month we heard about what the 

 snakes do in North Carolina ; in this issue 

 breeders in New York and Ohio tell us 

 about their (?) snakes. The' pursuit of 

 a young wild turkey by a snake is espe- 

 cially interesting and timely now that the 

 wild turkeys are becoming abundant as 

 a sporting bird. We have always known 

 that the snake was speedy but in most 

 cases we observed that he secured his 



OUR QUAILS OR PARTRIDGES. 



We are more and more convinced not 

 alone from experiments made by the 

 editor of The Game Breeder but also 

 from the practical results obtained _ by a 

 large number of quail clubs and inter- 

 ested preserve owners that the best 

 method of breeding quail or partridges 

 for sport is to breed the birds in a wild 

 state in protected fields which have been 

 made especially safe and attractive. The 

 partridges of the old world have been 

 made tremendously abundant in many 

 places by the methods we advise and 

 these birds are similar in their breeding 

 habits to our American species. 



Wild birds, undoubtedly, produce the 

 healthiest offspring just as wild trout and 

 other fishes do. The young birds in the 



