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THE GAME BREEDER 



lively birds to shoot ; many new game 

 shooting clubs are being started and 

 many more will be as soon as it becomes 

 generally known how easy it is to have 

 excellent duck shooting. Numerous in- 

 quiries come to The Game Breeder from 

 people who contemplate starting com- 

 mercial game farms and some of these 

 places will use mammoth incubators and 

 be prepared to sell many thousands of 

 , excellent wild ducks every season. Some 

 stories about these places will be pub- 

 lished during the year. 



Since many advertisers in The Game 

 Breeder supply thousands of pheasant 

 eggs and the common "near mallards" 

 and their eggs were in great demand it 

 is evident that the demand for trapped 

 wild ducks and for the young ducks and 

 eggs will be tremendous. The fact that 

 it no longer is criminal to produce food 

 on the game farms and preserves and the 

 repeal of the restrictive law preventing 

 the trapping of stock birds, warrant my 

 saying that America in a very few years 

 will be the biggest wild fowl producing 

 country in the world. The State game 

 departments should supply wild ducks 

 and eggs to those who will engage in the 

 new industry, just as agricultural de- 

 partments supply seeds to those who will 

 multiply them. Numerous game shoot- 

 ing clubs quickly can be organized to 

 utilize waste lands, containing ponds and 

 marshes where no wild fowl are ever 

 seen, and the result of such activity will 

 be highly creditable to the departments 

 and highly beneficial to the shooting on 

 all public waters and marshes. The 

 amount of food sent to market will make 

 the State departments popular with all 

 of the people and the sportsmen will be 

 surprised at the improvement of their 

 sport during long open seasons. The 

 best State departments will show the best 

 results. 



Wild fowl, under the new regulations, 

 are in no danger of being placed in the 

 song bird list. 



the State owns a big lot of game pur- 

 chased from game breeders who are 

 members of the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety. 



Those who think the State owns all 

 of the game are sadly mistaken. Penn- 

 sylvania and other States would hardly 

 purchase as much game as they do if the 

 State owned it all. We are confident 

 that our readers have a very important 

 "qualified" ownership in hundreds of 

 thousands (possibly millions) of game 

 birds and some States, like some clubs, 

 find it very handy to buy from the pro- 

 ducers. 



The reason the markets are not yet full 

 of game is the demand for live birds for 

 breeding purposes and the bad shipping 

 facilities in some backward States. 



Good Work. 



"The State Owns the Game." 



In Pennsylvania, where a big lot of 

 game laws are produced every season, 



We still continue to hear from people 

 who have read the booklet of the Her- 

 cules Powder Co. on game farming. 

 Many seem to have decided the subject 

 was interesting and well worth investi- 

 gating. Some say they decided to be- 

 come game producers after reading the 

 booklet and find it pays to have more 

 game for sport and for profit. It would 

 be interesting to compare the figures 

 showing the amount of money expend- 

 ed for ammunition for game bird shoot- 

 ing on the places where game always is 

 abundant and with the figures showing 

 the amount expended -for trap shooting. 

 We are in favor of both heartily and we 

 often observe the traps for trap shooting 

 when we visit the places where game 

 shooting is the chief sport. 



The game shooting clubs preserves 

 and new game farms are the best cus- 

 tomers of those engaged in game breed- 

 ing. To enact "otherwise than by shoot- 

 ing" nonsense would result in depriving 

 the game farmers of many customers 

 and directly tend to prevent the breeding 

 of game on game farms and preserves. 

 We would remind mischief mlakers of 

 the section which says "nothing in the 

 act shall be construed to prevent," etc. 

 The section is quite worth while and 

 very statesmanlike. 



