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THE GAME BREEDER 



Game Markets. 



As to game markets, the game owned 

 and produced by industry should be sold 

 of course under proper regulations. The 

 Game Breeder often has said that game 

 farmers and breeders will fare better if 

 the sale of the game from public lands 

 and waters be prohibited than they will 

 if it be permitted. 



Mr. Leopold jumps at the conclusion 

 that game farmers wish to have compe- 

 tition. His erroneous ideas are based 

 on the statement that in free countries 

 the market gunners own the game they 

 legally shoot and trap and they sell it 

 as a matter of course. Here is a pro- 

 vision for the impecunious sportsmen, 

 Mr. Leopold, which enables them to pur- 

 chase ammunition and have a good time. 

 We have mentioned the matter simply 

 to illustrate the mistaken ideas of those 

 who try to arouse the people to go in 

 strongly for more laws by assuring them 

 that only dukes and lords shoot in Eng- 

 land. There are many shooting syndi- 

 cates formed to share the expense of 

 keeping up some sport. We agree that 

 it is wise to confine the sale of game in 

 America to game produced by industry, 

 because the sale of public game would 

 undoubtedly result in too much being 

 shot, at least until game becomes very 

 abundant. There is no controversy here. 

 Mr. Leopold simply misunderstands why 

 we mentioned the freedom of the poor 

 in the free countries. We can see why 

 they should give way in America until 

 game is more abundant just as we see 

 why the quail should go on the song 

 bird list. We never have been able to 

 see any moral turpitude in a poor man's 

 living out on the beach and supporting 

 his family by taking fish from the waters 

 and fowl from the air. We have put 

 in some time shooting with these indus- 

 trious people and it has always seemed 

 to us when we observed their healthy, 

 happy children, that they were better off 

 than they would be in a crowded' tene- 

 ment in the city. In countries where 

 game is properly looked after they can 

 sell the food they secure to the people 

 at absurdly low prices. Sportsmen who 

 own country homes and sportsmen who 



rent shooting on the posted farms see 

 no more objection to market gunners 

 than they see to market fishermen. 



Much as we sympathize with and ap- 

 prove of the conduct of the good old 

 gunners who formerly sent game to the 

 markets we can see that this was as 

 much overdone as the quail shooting was 

 and that excepting in places where game 

 is produced both the sporting- vocation 

 of the wild fowler and the shooting of 

 quail for fun will not be permitted. 



M. G. or F. G. That's the Question! 



We have tried the sport of getting 

 more game laws and in fact worked hard 

 at it some years ago. We find the in- 

 dustry of producing more game far more 

 interesting and there can be no doubt 

 that we have increased our opportunity 

 for good bags of quail and other game. 

 Since the food procured goes a long way 

 towards offsetting the cost of production 

 we have ascertained that anyone can 

 have excellent shooting during a long 

 open season if he wants to. We know . ' 

 some people who frankly say there is 

 more money in the game law industry 

 and who point with pride to their lead- 

 ers who take in a surprising amount of 

 coin. All we ask is if we do not inter- 

 fere with this money-making game that 

 the money-makers be not permitted to 

 prevent the breeding of game on game 

 farms and shooting grounds where our 

 game shooters have a big lot of sport 

 every season and where game farmers 

 produce game birds and eggs profitably. 

 We like the shooting and we are glad it 

 is coming back everywhere in the free 

 states. 



Game Wanted 



If you want any game or game eggs 

 by all means put in a small advertisement 

 stating just what you want. If our ad- 

 vertisers can not furnish it you, no doubt, 

 will hear from those who can. 



Those who have not tried an adver- 

 aisement in The Game Breeder should 

 do so. They will get in touch with the 

 best customers in the countrv. 



