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THE GAME BREEDER 



found more difficult to establish as wild 

 breeding birds in England than pheasants 

 procured from preserves where all the 

 game is bred wild are. The Long Island 

 Game Breeders Association will experi- 

 ment with scaled quail and the result 

 will be published in The Game Breeder. 



A Fair Sized Order. 



The secretary of the game commission 

 of Pennsylvania reports the purchase, 

 since April, 1918, of 163 deer, 87 wild 

 turkeys, 6,390 ring-necked pheasants, 200 

 rabbits, 60 varying or snowshoe hares, 26 

 fox squirrels, 197 Gambel's quail. 



Practically all of this game was sold by 

 readers of The Game Breeder. 



The commission ordered 300 deer, 150 

 wild turkeys, 12,000 pheasants, 12,850 

 pheasant's eggs (7,664 were received), 

 1,500 rabbits, 800 hares, 450 fox squir- 

 rels, 35,000 bob-white quail and 1,296 

 Gambel's quail, but the secretary says, 

 "As has always been our experience the 

 shippers invariably overestimate the 

 number they are actually able to deliver.' 



The secretary should remember there. 

 are many private customers who get their 

 orders in early, as soon as The Game 

 Breeder appears usually. 



Pheasant Business Improving. 



Every one in the game breeding indus- 

 try knows that pheasant breeding is 

 booming and the prices are highly satis- 

 factory. Hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars now go to the gamie ranches and 

 preserves of the states which have liberal 

 laws encouraging game breeding. It 

 must seem peculiar to the game officers 

 of unprogressive states that big checks 

 and money orders go continually through 

 their states in one direction and big lots 

 of desirable food birds pass through the 

 state in the other direction, while little 

 or no business is done in their jurisdic- 

 tion. 



The reason why the pheasants are pro- 

 duced abundantly is that the people are 

 not arrested for such industry. Quai' 

 and grouse can be produced more abun- 

 dantly and more cheaply than pheasants 

 are when the laws permit the profitable 

 production of quail and grouse. 



That the pheasant industry is grow- 

 ing is evidenced by the following state- 



ment of the secretary of the Pennsyl- 

 vania commission : 



"You will note that the number of ring-neck 

 pheasants secured for releasing this spring is 

 over twice the number heretofore secured in 

 any one year, although some of our most re- 

 liable shippers fell down considerably in the 

 number they had hoped to supply us. We are 

 laying our plans now to secure not less than 

 ten thousand (10,000) for this coming year if 

 that is possible." 



The state game officers are beginning 

 to rely more and more on members of 

 our game conservation society to supply 

 them with "more gamle." Considering 

 the fact that our readers have many 

 private customers who pay a little bet- 

 ter prices and who must be served first, 

 it is evident that America is becoming 

 a big game producing country rapidly. 



Reaching Out for Cottontails. 



The Pennsylvania secretary thus com- 

 ments on cottontails : 



"Concerning cottontail rabbits, beg to advise 

 that we have reached out in all directions in 

 an endeavor to secure desirable cottontail rab- 

 bits in goodly numbers, but find that the same 

 conditions that exist in Pennsylvania prevail 

 in many other eastern states, so that this year 

 we will not be able to secure cottontail rabbits 

 as we had hoped to do. 



"Concerning the order for Snowshoe hares, 

 regret to advise that the shipper is having con- 

 siderable difficulty in getting these animals to 

 us in good shape and it may be that unless 

 he is able to get these hares to us in better 

 shape we will be compelled to cancel further 

 attempts. 



"Concerning the order for Bob-White Quail, 

 beg to advise that the order given is a maxi- 

 mum of three separate orders." 



Often we have been surprised at the 

 scarcity of live rabbits in the markets. 

 Since the animals are regarded as a 

 nuisance in Kansas and some of the 

 other western states we would suggest 

 to state officers the importance of is- 

 suing bulletins telling their people there 

 is a demand for rabbits at good prices. 

 Tell them to try an advertisement in 

 The Game Breeder and watch results. 

 We desire to be helpful to the Pennsyl- 

 vania game officers and also to hundreds 

 of game shooting clubs whose members 

 read the magazine. 



Reaching Out Generally. 



The Pennsylvania secretary evidently 

 goes in widely for "more game." He 

 says: 



