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THE GAME BREEDER 



Bounty Figures Are Shown. 



Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the Penn- 

 sylvania game commission, writes : 



"It will be of interest to you to know 

 the result of our bounty work during the 

 last fiscal year, June 1, 1918, to May 31, 

 1919, inclusive, which has just been tab- 

 ulated, and as a matter of comparison, 

 give you below data on this work for the 

 four years we have been operating the 

 bounty division. 



"The year 1915, as below listed, in- 

 cludes the animals killed and presented 

 from April 15, 1915, up to May 31, 1916, 

 inclusive, and the remaining years given 

 are the fiscal years from June to June. 

 This data complete being as follows : 



"Animals presented : 



1915 1916 1917 1918 



Wild Cats 792 432 297 459 



Gray Foxes ... 4,748 3,758 3,287 4,446 



Red Foxes 4,911 3,360 2,790 4,351 



Minks 4,014 6,022 4,248 5,549 



Weasels 28,225 44,631 30,397 31,944 



Bounty $56,309 $67,481 $48,581 $57,841 



"Under the new bounty act which be- 

 came effective June 1st, as you have al- 

 ready been advised, all skins no matter 

 before what official presented, must come 

 to this office without mutilation. The 

 bounty on the wild cat has been increased 

 two dollars and on the weasel one dollar 

 so that this next year the amount of 

 money required for this purpose will no 

 doubt be approximately $35,000 more 

 than during the present year, because of 

 the increase in the county and the addi- 

 tional interest that will be created in the 

 killing of these animals. 



"It occurred to us that this data would 

 be of considerable interest to your sports- 

 men readers. — In the Open. 



killing and possessing one robin in vio- 

 lation of the act. 



Judge Trieber in 1914 in the case of 

 the United States against Harvey C. 

 Shauver, decided that the migratory-bird 

 law approved March 4, 1913, was un- 

 constitutional. The present law repealed 

 the act of 1913. 



Federal Migratory Bird Law Held 

 Constitutional. 



The constitutionality of the federal 

 migratory-bird treaty act approved July 

 3, 1918, is upheld in an opinion rendered 

 by Federal Judge Jacob Trieber of the 

 eastern district of Arkansas in the case 

 of United States against E. D. Thomp- 

 son, of Memphis, Tenn., charged with 



Sage Cock. 



Young birds of the year that have fed 

 largely on grasshoppers and other insects 

 are regarded as being a choice food, and 

 are esteemed as highly as the ruffed 

 grouse or bobwhite. 



That the young are quite as good as 

 any game bird in the land was proven to 

 me by the delicious repast set before me 

 by some of the good people of this arid 

 country — T. Gilbert Pearson, in Bird 

 Lore. 



You are quite right, Professor. We have 

 shot and eaten hundreds of these birds. Why 

 not suggest some good big sage cock ranches 

 where the birds can be produced inexpensively 

 and sold reasonably to a delighted people 

 after they have afforded the excellent sport 

 you no doubt are familiar with? — Editor. 



The Dove. 



Our dove is an excellent game bird. 

 It is bred abundantly in the northern 

 states to be shot when it goes south 

 where the people know a good thing 

 when they see it. 



Audubon says : "The flesh of these 

 birds is remarkably fine, when they are 

 obtained young and in the proper season. 

 Such birds become extremely fat, are 

 tender and juicy and in flavor equal in 

 the estimation of some of my friends, as 

 well as in my own, to that of the snipe or 

 even the woodcock; but as taste in such 

 matters depends much on circumstances, 

 and perhaps on the whim of individuals, 

 I would adivse you, reader, to try for 

 yourself. These birds require good 

 shooting to bring them down, when on 

 wing, for they fly with great swiftness, 

 and not always in a direct manner. It is 

 seldom that more than one can be killed 

 at a shot when they are flying, and rarely 



