T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XV 



AUGUST, W9 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 5 



The Farmer and the Law. 



Farmers' organizations that attempt a 

 co-operative business face uncertainty as 

 to where they will stand under national 

 and state anti-trust acts. In several 

 states one bureau is urging the organiza- 

 tion of co-operative associations while 

 another department is threatening to out- 

 law these combinations as being a re- 

 straint to trade. In . New York, for in- 

 stance, the Bureau of Markets encour- 

 ages farmers to co-operate while at the 

 same time the dairymen's league is 

 threatened with prosecution. In nearly 

 every particular the rapidly changing 

 conditions resulting from the develop- 

 ment of collective bargaining and co-op- 

 erative marketing are complex and puz- 

 zling and there has been no central clear- 

 ing house to which farmers and legisla- 

 tors could turn for the facts. 



The American Association for Agricul- 

 tural Legislation has tackled this job of 

 getting some sort of order out of the 

 chaotic mass of laws and court decisions 

 on the subject. This organization is 

 made up of agricultural leaders, farmers 

 and educators, and is modeled somewhat 

 after the American Association for Labor 

 Legislation, which has accomplished much 

 good work. Under Dr. Liberty H. Bai- 

 ley, of Cornell, as president and Rich- 

 ard T. Ely, of Madison, Wisconsin, as 

 secretary the association is rapidly organ- 

 izing its work to cover questions of food 

 production, land settlement, rural educa- 

 tion, taxation, credits, roads and mar- 

 kets Anyone interested may become a 

 member. 



It might be supposed that some Fed- 

 eral department should be charged with 



this duty of digesting and systematizing 

 our medley of conflicting laws, but it is 

 palpable that if anything is to be done, it 

 must -be by a nonpartisan organization 

 of agricultural leaders, such as are in- 

 cluded in the membership of the Amer- 

 ican Association for Agricultural Legisla- 

 tion. This organization deserves sup- 

 port.— The Country Gentleman. 



We shall support this association. 

 Some years ago, when the "more game 

 and fewer game laws" idea was proposed 

 Dr. Bailey wrote to the editor of The 

 Game Breeder a letter which was given 

 wide publicity and which did much to ad- 

 vance the "more game" cause. He said 

 that our fundamental idea that the farm- 

 ers' interests must be considered in our 

 game law making was sound. Later he 

 requested the editor to write the article 

 on the game laws for his excellent en- 

 cyclopedia of agriculture. 



There can be no doubt that laws con- 

 cerning shooting on the farms should be 

 made by the farmers who own the farms, 

 and not by the sportsmen who can not 

 enter them without permission The ab- 

 surdity of sportsmen making the profit- 

 able production of food on the farms a 

 criminal offence long has been evident 

 and soon the nonsense will be ended as it 

 has been in some states. 



Death of a Game Farm. 



Edward T. Martin, in Hunter-Trader- 

 Trapper, describes the "Mistakes in 

 Game Farming," and the death of a 

 state institution. 



The Game Farm of the State of California 

 is dead and sleeping a dreamless sleep in the 

 grave of oblivion. No child was ever born 

 under prospects so fair as this same Game 



