THE GAME BREEDER 



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are again good for foreign game birds 

 it might be a good plan to import a few 

 thousand pigeons and give them a trial. 

 We suggest to the importers that the 

 numerous game breeding associations 

 and game shooting clubs affiliated with 

 the Game Conservation Society are in a 

 mood to buy any targets wearing feath- 

 ers, provided, of course, they be edible, 

 and the wood pigeon is said to be very 

 good to eat. 



There is no law against shooting and 

 eating wood pigeons and it would be 

 interesting to see if these birds rapidly 

 would become abundant on the club 

 grounds and would fly all over the coun- 

 try to be shot by an admiring populace. 



We doubt if a few birds liberated in 

 one place would escape our numerous 

 hawks, cats, et al., but some of a good 

 lot of birds might pull through and 

 become established. Any club which 

 acquires these birds will, of course, not 

 shoot them all the first season, and it 

 seems likely if they thrive at all they 

 will thrive abundantly. 



If some of our enterprising importers 

 will bring over a lot of wood pigeons we 

 will boom the product with some reading 

 notices and we know it is easy for us to 

 make game birds fashionable. 



All the blue quail offered for sale 

 last season were sold although no one 

 yet knows if they can be introduced in 

 the North successfully. 



Send in a reading notice if you import 

 any wood pigeons and we will put it in 

 free. We think more about making 

 America a big game producing country 

 than we do about making money. 



If our readers who would like to try 

 wood pigeons will write to our larger 

 advertisers who import birds they, no 

 doubt, will get the pigeons. 



More Gray Partridges. 



We can announce on good authority 

 that good big importations of gray part- 

 ridges (often called Hungarians in 

 America although they are abundant in 

 England and also in other continental 

 countries besides Hungary) soon will be 

 coming this way. Readers who want the 



so-called Hungarians can get their check 

 books ready. They soon can send money 

 to the importers with the assurance that 

 they will get the birds. As usual we 

 can forecast coming events in the game 

 bird industry. 



Advice to State Game Officers. 



State ganie officers who wish to pur- 

 chase job lots of Hungarians would do 

 well to write to the Game Conservation 

 Society and get some good advice about 

 how to turn these birds down success- 

 fully so they will become established. 

 Heretofore thousands of dollars have 

 been expended to feed vermin with the 

 innocent imported birds. We can plan 

 the introduction so that it will probably 

 be successful and there are vast tracts 

 of land in America where public shoot- 

 ing is perfectly proper and where it 

 should not be necessary to rely on the 

 prohibition of field sports for terms of 

 years to insure some good partridge 

 shooting. — ,, _„,>** 



In Connecticut where an attempt was 

 made to introduce some thousands of 

 dollars worth of Hungarians by turning- 

 down a few pair of birds here and there,, 

 a game warden reported that a hawk 

 took one of a pair of birds he liberated, 

 before he left the field. There is a way 

 of turning down partridges which we 

 feel sure will be successful. Game offi- 

 cers who are subscribers can get some 

 good advice if they will let us know 

 when they get the partridges. 



Our Best Game Bird. 



English gamekeepers who have made 

 our American quail, the bobwhite, 

 abundant and who keep it so in places 

 where big bags of quail are shot every 

 season, say that bobwhite is the best 

 game bird in the world. Often they 

 have referred to the way our quail per- 

 forms before dogs. It will be an easy 

 matter for some inexpensive quail clubs, 

 or syndicates as they say in England, 

 to restore quail shooting in Ohio and 

 other prohibition states on many of the 

 posted farms. All that is necessary is to 



