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THE GAME BREEDER 



T**. e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Ebited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1919. 

 TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All ForeignCountriesand Canada,,$i.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



RAPID GROWTH OF THE IN- 

 DUSTRY. 



The game breeding industry is grow- 

 ing so rapidly that the laws will soon 

 be made to conform with it. As a mat- 

 ter of fact it is now generally conceded 

 that game farmers own the stock birds 

 they have legally acquired and the eggs 

 and birds produced by industry. Quail 

 and quail eggs, pheasants and ducks of 

 all species are freely sold and transported 

 for breeding purposes in most of the 

 States, and the only reason more game 

 is not seen in the markets is there is a 

 big demand for the birds from game 

 shooting clubs and country places, from 

 new commercial breeders, big and small, 

 and also from enterprising State game 

 officers who wish to see their constituents 

 shoot a few pheasants in the open season. 



The New York market was fairly well 

 supplied with pheasants, mallards and 

 black ducks last season. There will be 

 more game sold next fall. 



MORE ABOUT CIDER. 



In an editorial, "Back to the Land," 

 we remarked among other things : "Our 

 specialty is books and bulletins on game 

 breeding, including the magazine for 

 game breeders, warranted to send people 

 to live in the country on places where 



there is enough freedom to permit the 

 restoration of quail on toast and, pos- 

 sibly a little near cider as a side line." 



We have numerous readers in the 

 House and Senate and to-day we read a 

 headline over a Washington dispatch to 

 a daily paper: "Cider Scares Drys — 

 Decline to List it as a Barred Drink!" 



The Congress acted promptly when we 

 pointed out that the Migatory Bird Bill, 

 as it was introduced, prevented and pro- 

 hibited the production of game birds for 

 sport and for profit and even for food. 

 The bill was amended so as to prevent 

 anyone from interfering with the pro- 

 duction of the desirable food. 



It is appropriate, therefore, for the 

 Congress to permit rural . residents, 

 many of whom now go in for "more 

 game" (in fact for an abundance of the 

 desirable food) to have some cider to 

 go with the birds. The traditional cold 

 bottle having gone out upon the incom- 

 ing of the restored hot bird, it seems to 

 be a fair legislative compromise to per- 

 mit all rural residents, who find it pays 

 to have game on their farms, to have 

 some cider to drink with it. 



There is a nice lot of grapes on one of 

 the farms where we shoot and possibly a 

 little of the amber or ruddy juice of the 

 grapes also may be permitted, provided 

 the percentage of "kick" be not greater 

 than that contained in cider. This seems 

 to be perfectly fair and reasonable. 



Lecky, the author of the History of 

 Morals, tells us that "field sports tend to 

 keep people in the country and form a 

 sufficient counterpoise to the pleasures 

 of the town." Now that the sports of 

 the field are coming back under liberal 

 laws permitting game breeding and it no 

 longer is a criminal offence to profitably 

 produce game on the farms, we have pre- 

 dicted that many people will live in the 

 country. If the Congress shall decide to 

 let them have a little wine and cider to 

 drink with the game the counterpoise, 

 referred to by the historian, will be em- 

 phasized ; the possibilities of a back to 

 the land movement seem to be tremen- 

 dous. It may even become a veritable 



