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THE GAME BREEDER 



Lease Wanted. 



The Game Breeder: 



Will you please send me a form for 

 a shooting lease. I contemplate form- 

 ing a game breeders' association. 



E. A. W. 



Oklahoma. 



[We are sending a copy of the lease used 

 by one of the best game breeding associations 

 in the Middle West. We think this lease can 

 be shortened and simplified and that the 

 declaratory clause at the beginning well may 

 be left out. It states a well-known fact, but 

 it does not strengthen the legal document in 

 our opinion. Since leases for various terms 

 of years must be recorded in the proper office 

 in the States, requiring records, we always 

 advise that new game breeding associations 

 employ a competent attorney familiar with 

 the laws of the locality. We believe the lease 

 can be made very short and simple and we 

 will publish a form in a booklet about creating 

 game breeding associations which is in prep- 

 aration. Our advice, however, will be to let 

 the local attorney (who should be a member 

 of the "shoot") make any changes in the 

 form which may be needed in the locality.] 

 The Game Breeder, 



150 Nassau Street, New York. 



Big Business. 



My ad in your paper, by which I advertised 

 to purchase certain stock, brought satisfactory 

 results. I soon found that most everybody 

 wished to buy, and if I had advertised game 

 birds and animals for sale instead of to pur- 

 chase I would have had an overwhelming de- 

 mand. This gave me an insight into the rapid 

 growth of the business. 



Robert Hutchinson. 



Colorado. 



1 Sharks. 



Stanford University, Cal., 



Aug. 16, 1916. 

 Editor of The Game Breeder: 



Referring to your note on sharks on 

 page 134 of your August number, per- 

 mit me to say that the only shark that 

 is yet positively known to be a man- 

 eater is the great white shark, Carcha- 

 rodon carcharias. This is found in 

 tropical seas and goes north once in a 

 while in the Gulf Stream. It has never 

 t>efore been taken nearer New York than 

 the south shore of Cape Cod, but a 

 young one has been lately caught in New 

 "York harbor, probably the one that has 

 done the mischief to bathers. I have 

 great doubt whether the presence of this 

 specimen is anything more than an acci- 



dental running off the track. I do not 

 think that it has anything to do with 

 the killing of the swordfish, nor have I 

 ever known a case in which a swordfish 

 has attacked a big shark. 



Thirty-six years ago I caught one of 

 these white sharks, thirty feet long, at 

 Soquel, in California. It had a young 

 sea lion, weighing about 100 pounds, in 

 its stomach. I heard of one in Hawaii 

 which made way, not all in one piece, 

 with a dead horse which had been 

 thrown into the sea. 



Very truly yours, 



David Starr Jordan. 



Wolves. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



On a farm that this house operates, 

 approximately twenty miles north of the 

 city, a considerable number of wolves 

 are causing trouble. I write to inquire 

 as to the most efficient method of ex- 

 terminating this pest. In addition to the 

 wolves there are some foxes and mink 

 that should also be exterminated. 



Enclose addressed and stamped en- 

 velope and will appreciate an early re- 

 ply. Thanking you in advance for this 

 courtesy. 



S. Kruse. 



Hotel Radisson, Minnesota. 



Muskrats. 



The Game Breeder: 



Can you give me any information of 

 anyone raising muskrats in an enclosed 

 slough, and if there are any such places 

 in operation, and if more than one that 

 you know of, give me the address of 

 the closest one to Minnesota? 



I have a large slough (120 acres) and 

 there was taken off of this slough 2,000 

 muskrats which got me to thinking that 

 raising muskrats might be made a profit- 

 able proposition. 



Enclosed find stamps for a reply and 

 thanking you in advance. 



Minnesota. 



Wilfred D. Oleson. 



[Write to the man whose name we are 

 sending. We shall be glad to have any of our 

 readers answer the above. — Editor.] 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



