THE GAME BREEDER 



elaborate magazine, issued by the state 

 department during the year. The com- 

 mission thinks the people prefer poultry 

 and poultry rearing. 



If California will open the San Fran- 

 cisco markets to game produced by our 

 members in Oregon, Washington and 

 some other states for one season and will 

 give us a little notice in advance we 

 will guarantee to flood the market with 

 game for the people to eat; and the re- 

 sult will be that our members referred 

 to will have more game than ever since 

 they will re-invest the proceeds of the 

 sales. 



If the commission does not want any 

 game produced in the state it would be 

 a good plan to open the markets to 

 game produced in other states. The 

 people will enjoy the food ; our readers 

 who produce game in more civilized 

 states will be glad to have the money. 



California can go on in its old-fash- 

 ioned, sleepy way of protecting game if 

 it wishes to do so; a large number of 

 politicians (they should stop interfering 

 with producers) can be kept on the pay- 

 roll of those unproductively employed 

 and the people, we are sure, will enjoy 

 eating the food our readers in other 

 states will sell them, A new lot of game 

 officers can be specially employed to in- 

 spect and identify the food and see that 

 no citizen of California has had any 

 hand in the breeding business. Our read- 

 ers will stand all the. expense for the 

 new army of game protectors no matter 

 what political party they may belong 

 to. We are non-partisan in such matters. 



We saw a letter recently which was 

 written by a California state senator in 

 which he says that a law passed recently 

 was reconsidered since it prevented 

 pheasant breeding. How about the laws 

 preventing quail breeding for sport and 

 for food? Will the California commis- 

 sion sleep right through the more game 

 and fewer game laws movement? 



Those who are opposed to field sports 

 and go in for preventive laws should re- 

 member that shooting is the big induce- 

 ment to production. Why should the 

 game protection societies claim to favor 

 game breeding and also seek to destroy 

 the inducement. 



Since it is safe to say that five or 

 ten cartridges are shot for every bird 

 bagged and more at the preserves which 

 have trap shooting also it is evident that 

 our readers use a vast amount of am- 

 munition. Some places use mpre than a 

 country store. We trust they all use the 

 kind advertised and we believe they do 

 since they are interested in seeing more 

 game and fewer game laws and are will- 

 ing to purchase from those who help 

 the cause. 



The game conservation society con- 

 templates starting a school for game 

 keepers on one of its experimental farms. 

 There is a big demand in America for 

 skilled labor on game farms and pre- 

 serves at attractive wages. The new in- 

 dustry promises to furnish agreeable em- 

 ployment for thousands of young men in 

 the country and many farmers, no doubt, 

 soon will learn that it is desirable to 

 have game as a farm asset and to em- 

 ploy some one who knows how to pro- 

 duce it and to look after it properly. 



The society also has been considering 

 the idea of starting a shooting school 

 where young men can learn how to shoot 

 game flying. Trap shooting is inter- 

 esting and desirable, but the best place 

 to learn to shoot game is in the field 

 where game is plentiful. 



No one can expect to learn to shoot 

 flying in places where it is only legal to 

 shoot three cock pheasants in a year and 

 with the chance of the bag limit being re- 

 duced it hardly seemis worth while to 

 own a gun and certainly it is not worth 

 while to own a dog. 



Readers who have not tried advertis- 

 ing in The Game Breeder should do so. 

 They surely will receive an interesting 

 mail and get in touch with some good 

 customers. 



The more we think about it the more 

 we think it is a good plan to have "more 

 game and fewer game laws." 



