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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^ e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JULY, 1919. 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C Huntington, Secretary. 



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DEATH OF A BENEFICIAL. 



When a "beneficial" red-shouldered 

 hawk takes "a perfectly healthy female 

 brook trout 13 inches long," as reported 

 in the Massachusetts annual report, it 

 would seem that he had acquired a per- 

 verted appetite and that the death pen- 

 alty was properly imposed. In the case 

 reported, however, it seems that the 

 trout was discovered after the penalty 

 was inflicted and that the culprit was 

 shot on suspicion, as it were. However, 

 we all learned something from the event 

 and even if the red-shoulder is a pro- 

 tected species — "the king can do no 

 wrong," and the killing was a state af- 

 fair, and besides it seems sort of mean 

 in the hawk to take a female brook trout. 



WE'RE ALL DOING IT. 



"There is a nationwide determination 

 that something must be done," says Mr. 

 Leopold. 



Game breeders everywhere are doing 

 it on a large scale. State game officers 

 also are doing it. They are purchasing 

 thousands of game birds and game eggs 

 from game breeders. 



They are controlling a lot of vermin 

 on the farms where they produce "more 



one night by the "beneficial skunks" at 

 a Massachusetts game farm lends em- 

 phasis to the idea that "something must 

 be done." Something, no doubt, was 

 done to the skunks. 



A record of 147 pheasants eaten by 

 pigs at a meal also suggests a new ac- 

 tivity. There are many interesting 

 things which must be done. 



One reason why game breeding is so 

 interesting to thousands of people is the 

 numerous unusual things which must be 

 done. 



Owen Jones, an Oxford graduate, who 

 says he was destined for the church but 

 decided to become a game keeper, says 

 he found many interesting things to be 

 done ; he found the control of vermin 

 good sport. 



"We're all doing it," and none of us 

 are rueing it. 



game. 



The record of forty pheasants taken in 



RULES OF THE TRADE. 



As the game breeding industry has 

 become a big one trade rules and cus- 

 toms are beginning to be considered and 

 discussed. Numerous interesting prop- 

 ositions are put to The Game Breeder. 



It is a well established rule with most 

 game farmers that the cash must accom- 

 pany the order for game birds and quad- 

 rupeds and eggs. The shipping usually 

 is at the risk of the purchaser. Often 

 an extra charge is made for the guar- 

 antee of live arrival. 



Many of the controversies relate to 

 the fertility of eggs and breakage due 

 to bad packing. A vefy large number of 

 cases have been handled by the game 

 guild this year. When the eggs are re- 

 ceived by a capable gamekeeper or an 

 expert game farmer the fertility is easily 

 ascertained, and in many cases satisfac- 

 tory settlements have been made. In 

 one case the eggs were very bad and 

 blew up when placed in an incubator. 

 The shipper made a settlement. 



The dealings of game farmers with 

 each other has been discussed in our 

 mail and our opinion has been asked 

 about the proper prices in such cases. 



In most industries where one dealer 

 buys from another in order to re-sell a 



