50 THE GAME BREEDER 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Gambel's Quail Vanishing in New Mexico and Increasing in New York. 



The Hon. Thomas P. Gable, the newly been taken out. Some of the quail per- 

 appointed State Game Warden for New ished. It was desired to procure a few 

 Mexico, writes: "I am sorry that I will additional stock birds in order to con- 

 be unable to comply with your request tinue the scientific work on a larger 

 for quail and am obliged to return your scale this year. 



check. The hard cold winter was so se- The Long Island Association now has 

 vere on the birds that in some localities the largest number of Blue Quail, Gam- 

 they have been entirely depleted. I am bel's Quail and Bob Whites ever assem- 

 making every effort to purchase fish and bled in America for experimental work, 

 game for restocking this state, and now and it is to be hoped as the shooting fails 

 have parties in El Paso and Mexico who in New Mexico it will be conducted on 

 are trying to secure quail for me from an increasing scientific scale on many 

 that locality. At present I cannot hold places associated with the Game Con- 

 out any hope of shipping you quail from servation Society. 



this state ; in fact, there is no law author- Covies of Gambel's quail have been 



izing the game warden to sell quail or seen crossing the road some distance to 



ship them out of the state except for the east and also to the west of the 



scientific purposes." farms of the Game Breeding Associa- 



Our request for quail was for scien- tion, and beyond its boundaries. Nu- 



tific purposes. The birds were to be do- merous cats and other vermin also are 



nated to the Long Island Game Breeders' reported and the Association is collecting 



Association, where the most important these enemies by scientific methods. Al- 



scientific experiments ever undertaken though it is too early to say if the Gam- 



with quail are conducted. Gambel's bel's quail has been thoroughly estab- 



quail from New Mexico were bred sue- lished on Long Island, N. Y., and we 



cessfully on the farms of this Associa- fear the cats are too numerous when 



tion last year and the experiment in- compared with the game, it can not be 



eluded the most important part of such denied that the birds still occur, although 



experimental work, the harvesting of some scientific harvesting occurred last 



the crop, "by shooting." fall. It seems likely more birds will be 



What possibly can be more scientific produced this' summer and harvested 



than the transfer of quail long distances ; next autumn. By keeping the game laws 



the hatching of their eggs in incubators off of the farms and preventing the 



and under hens; the rearing of many enactment of the laws and regulations 



birds, and the harvesting of the food most fatal to all game (laws preventing 



crop in a highly scientific manner with shooting, which destroy the inducement 



the Parker and Remington guns and am- for production), the scientific character 



munition. The scientific experiment was of the work has been emphasized and 



even carried to the cooking and eating made known to many intelligent people, 



of the food in New York City, where We hope in time some of the game 



the serving of quail on toast has been breeding associations affiliated with the 



somewhat unusual : as we have pointed Game Conservation Society will be able 



out, the cooking of game properly is now to supply the State officer of New Mex- 



regarded as a science as well as an art. ico with quail and that he will not have 



The Association had some losses of to reach out and secure his birds in 

 breeding stock. Thirty Gambel's quail Mexico, sending money abroad which 

 were liberated by a cow which scratched should go to American farms. The 

 open the door of their inclosure. The Game Conservation Society does not sell 

 death of a game keeper left a lot of birds game in competition with the game farm- 

 exposed in a pen, made especially un- ers who advertise in The Game Breeder, 

 sanitary by a bantam which should have It is actively engaged .in creating new 



