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THE GAME BREEDER 



T!?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1916. 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Hcntington, Secretary. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



REFLECTIONS ON A SHARK 

 NOTE. 



We are sure our readers will be inter- 

 ested in the note about sharks, written 

 by the distinguished naturalist, David 

 Starr Jordan, Chancellor of Leland- 

 Stanford Junior University, California. 



Always we are gratified when readers 

 of ability send us timely notes. We have 

 long known that the triumph of the so- 

 called "more game" movement was large- 

 ly due to the big number of able men 

 who are members of the Game Conser- 

 vation Society or readers of its publica- 

 tion. The quiet influence of men of real 

 ability has been worth much to the cause. 



any legislative body to single out this or 

 that for special taxes and to carry the 

 idea to extremes ? 



One great curse of the country is ill- 

 advised legislation. All the great legal 

 authorities in the land are aware that 

 there are far too many laws. The game 

 of the country has felt the effect of 

 thousands of foolish enactments and 

 America is the only civilized country in 

 the world where the people do not eat 

 cheap game. 



We believe that a special raid on the 

 makers of powder is especially ill-advised 

 if we would encourage preparedness. 



TAXING GUNPOWDER. 



The Congress proposes, in a new bill, 

 to place a special tax on gunpowder of 

 8 per cent, on the gross reecipts. 



We fail to see why powder should be 

 singled out for a special tax. We have 

 always entertained the idea that it was 

 a mighty good thing for a country to 

 have powder manufactories as well as a 

 lot of good sportsmen skilled with the 

 gun. As the little man said, who "bought 

 him a big bass drum": "Who can tell 

 when a war will come ? and if I'm called 

 on to fight for my land I want to be 

 ready to play in the band. Boom ! Boom ! 

 Boom !" 



But seriously, is it not a mistake for 



A CALIFORNIA OUTRAGE. 



We still have complaints from Califor- 

 nia breeders. Here is a fine sample from 

 an industrious lady who would like to 

 produce some food on her premises with- 

 out danger of arrest: 



"I am having trouble to even get a 

 permit to keep my quail. I have about 

 seventy-five fine, thrifty California 

 Valley quail which I hatched from 

 birds given me by some friends who 

 have quail in their aviaries here; also 

 a few eggs were given me. I have 

 written Mr. Pritchard, game commis- 

 sioner at Los Angeles, and he only 

 wants to give me a permit to keep a 

 limited number and I wish to keep my 

 seventy-five." 



MARY RAHLMAN. 



We have advised the lady not to move 

 from California but to stay just where 

 she is; to keep all of her quail and to 

 sell her birds and eggs. 



We doubt if there is a game policeman 

 in California with nerve enough to lay 

 hands on this lady or to arrest any game 

 farmer for the crime of food producing 

 provided the stock birds have been legally 

 obtained. We raised a few hundred dol- 

 lars quickly to defend a case not nearly 

 so shocking as that of Mary Rahlman. 



We have asked the lady to telegraph 

 The Game Conservation Society, of 

 which she is a member, if she has any 

 trouble with the game officer and we havt 

 assured her that within an hour after 

 she is arrested a local bank will hand her, 

 with the compliments of the Society, am- 



