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THE GAME BREEDER 



about to sail on the Old Dominion line to 

 look at some land in Virginia and who 

 decided not to visit the State at present. 



We regret to see the new officer start- 

 ing out badly on the old theory that it is 

 criminal to produce food on the farms 

 of his State. 



One of our readers is conducting a 

 good sized game farm in Virginia and he 

 sells annually large numbers of wild 

 geese and ducks and their eggs. He has 

 been in the business many years. A num- 

 ber of other members of the Game Con- 

 servation Society, both men and women, 

 are rearing game profitably in Virginia. 

 It will be interesting to observe if the 

 new officer is far enough behind the 

 times to attempt to make the State abso- 

 lutely a prohibition State in so far as 

 game farming is concerned. 



If our memory serves us one of our 

 Virginia readers recovered a judgment 

 that he was clearly right. We sincerely 

 hope the first breeder arrested will re- 

 cover ample damages. 



Virginia. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I am forwarding the enclosed com- 

 munication to you and after you have 

 finished with it will you kindly return it 

 to me. 



Thanking you for your information 

 in this matter 



I remain very truly yours, 



F. A. W. Shaw. 



Monisunk Farm, N. Y. 



Mr. F. A. W. Shaw, Monisunk Farm,' 



New York State. 

 Dear Sir: 



Yours 11th to this department, and 

 yours same date to Mr. L. T. Christian, 

 re breeding game in Virginia for sale. 



We beg leave to advise you that the 

 laws in this State do not provide for 

 breeding game in captivity by private 

 firms and positively prohibit the sale of 

 same. 



An effort was made at the last session 

 of our General Assembly to insert a pro- 

 vision in our game laws providing for 

 breeding game, but. failed to pass. 



This being the situation, this depart- 



ment can offer you no encouragement 

 so far as this State is concerned. 

 Yours very truly, 

 Dept. Game and Inland Fisheries, . 



By M. D. Hart, 



Chief Clerk. 



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Editor The Game Breeder: 



Your August issue speaks of a new 

 duck trouble experienced by Mr. C. H. 

 Shaw, of the Arden Game Farm. 



I have raised some blacks and mallards 

 in Massachusetts and believe that I have 

 seen ducklings affected as described by 

 Mr. Shaw, although I do not known what 

 the disease is. I am inclined to believe 

 this disease is a result of two much sun 

 and also perhaps from rearing brood 

 after brood on the same ground. Prob- 

 ably a change of quarters attended by 

 scrupulous cleanliness of food and drink- 

 ing dishes and plenty of shade would 

 check the malady. 



It is certainly good to get your maga- 

 zine down here on the border. There 

 are plenty of blue doves in this region. 

 Can you tell me their true name? 



J. H. Harwood. 



With Massachusetts National Guard, 

 El Paso, Texas. 



[The doves are probably the white- winged 

 dove. We are sending you a book, "Our 

 Feathered Game," written by the Editor of 

 The Game Breeder, which has pictures and 

 descriptions of all the American pigeons and 

 doves. You will have no trouble in identify- 

 ing all the doves and the scaled and other 

 interesting quail which you should see in the 



El Paso region.] 



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Quail Breeding. 



We shall publish in the October num- 

 ber three well illustrated articles about 

 the artificial rearing of quail in America. 

 These remarkable stories are the last 

 word about the hand-rearing of Ameri- 

 ca's best game birds and they bring the 

 subject up to date. One of the writers 

 who has a novel brooder says he now 

 finds quail breeding so easy "it is a joke." 



These hand-rearing experiments, taken 

 in connection with the wild breeding 

 methods now successfully in operation on 

 many game farms conducted by readers 

 of The Game Breeder, promise quickly to 

 make the bob whites and the California 

 quails very abundant and soon we shall 



