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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Ebjted by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JUNE, 1919. 

 TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All ForeignCountries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



As the prohibition of drinking comes 

 in the prohibition of game eating seems 

 to be going out. Already there are in- 

 quiries if the game dinners of the Con- 

 servation Society, which were suspend- 

 ed during the war, will be resumed. They 

 will be. 



Quail on toast surely is coming back. 

 Members of the society report that thou- 

 sands of quail will be produced this year 

 on the game farms and preserves in the 

 free states and the toast we have al- 

 ways had with us. 



"And when the pie was opened the 

 birds began to sing." Suggestive of quail 

 pie in Ohio when these birds now on 

 the song-bird list become an abundant 

 food. It will not be long. Common 

 sense is returning. 



BACK TO THE LAND. 



The World says : A speaker at the 

 convention of booksellers in Boston held 

 out the cheering prospect to the trade 

 that Prohibition after July 1 would com- 

 pel many people to seek solace in read- 

 ing, which is all right in its way, pro- 

 vided the publishers quit manufactur- 

 ing novels warranted to drive people to 

 drink. 



Our specialty is books and bulletins 

 on game breeding; including the maga- 

 zine for game breeders, warranted to 

 send people to live in the country on 

 places where there is enough freedom to 

 permit the restoration of quail on toast 

 and possibly a little near cider as a side 

 line. 



A FEELING IN THE BONES. 



Mr. Aldo Leopold, a New Mexico 

 reader, says : "I feel it in my bones that 

 to make food production one of the main 

 objects of game conservation will even- 

 tually lead to trouble." Many years ago 

 we had the same feeling in our bones, 

 but we have learned that our bone ba- 

 rometer was faulty. Under the impres- 

 sion that the sale of game hastened its 

 disappearance and that the game laws 

 were not properly executed we joined 

 one of the strongest and best equipped 

 game protective associations in America. 

 This association employed detectives to' 

 discover and lawyers to prosecute game 

 law violators, and among many others 

 we arrested and convicted the hotel 

 keeper where we often dined. 



We secured many restrictive laws and 

 we placed the wild turkey on the song- 

 bird list so that no one could even shoot 

 it. We closed the quail shooting for 

 terms of years. During the time when 

 turkey shooting was prohibited the tur- 

 key became extinct. The quail vanished 

 rapidly on our favorite shooting grounds 

 after the sale of the birds was prohibited 

 and prevented and notwithstanding the 

 fact that most of the farms in the neigh- 

 borhood were posted and tlie farmers, 

 did their best to keep out the shooters — ■ 

 including ourselves. A little pond where 

 we shot ducks was drained and the place 

 where we often shot a few dozen jack 

 snipe also was drained. Houses were 

 built along a little river once frequented 

 by many ducks and there was probably a 

 gun in every house. The duck shooting 

 ccame to an end because every one was 

 willing and eager to destroy any fowl 

 that put in an appearance and no one 

 knew enough to look after the ducks. 

 Quail shooting in the state is now pro- 

 hibited forever. 



