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THE GAME BREEDER 



Shooting." Scintincut Neck Reservation 

 contains about 1,000 acres; Great Island 

 Reservation contains 600 acres. Other 

 Massachusetts State reservations and 

 their approximate areas, where the State 

 prohibits shooting, are: Marblehead 

 Neck, 300 acres ; Andover Reservation, 

 1,200 acres; Hingham Reservation, 5,000 

 acres; Marshfield Reservation, 5,000 

 acres; Tyngsborough Reservation, 150 

 acres; Millis, 2,000 to 3,000 acres; Hub- 

 bardston, 3,000 acres ; Lynnfield, 750 

 acres; Mansfield-Foxborough, 1,800 

 acres; Bare Hill, 1,740 acres; Taunton, 

 2,750 acres ; Pittsfield, 368 acres ; Tyngs- 

 borough, additional, 335 acres. 



In addition to the foregoing quiet and 

 non-food-producing areas there are the 

 Island of Martha's Vineyard, closed to 

 heath hen shooting, and the Myles Stand- 

 ish State Forest, about 7,000 acres, which 

 the State has just arranged to post 

 against all shooting. 



Proper Management. 



Looking at the closed areas in Massa- 

 chusetts anyone familiar with game 

 breeding and its possibilities, would 

 say that easily many tons of game can 

 be produced annually on such areas and 

 that some might be opened for orderly 

 shooting. 



The State easily could provide some 

 inexpensive shooting, and the shooting, 

 paradoxical as the statement may seem, 

 would keep the game abundant and the 

 food cheap in the Massachusetts markets. 



It would do a lot of good if some of 

 these clubs would invite some of the 

 game-law hunters to see • the shooting. 

 It probably would be a great surprise 

 to many game-law hunters to learn that 

 setters and pointers still are used in 

 many places to hunt quail and other 

 game. 



We hope the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety at one of its new places may be 

 able to keep the shooting, also, open for 

 inspection and professional game-keeper 

 on the grounds can give instruction in 

 the handling of dogs and in wing shoot- 

 ing to the younger generation who have 

 been taught to hunt nothing but game 

 laws and clay pigeons. What the Boston 

 trap-shooting club can do will clearly be 

 possible for some of the game shooting 

 clubs, but the work is especially suitable 

 for the associations affiliated with the 

 Game Conservation Society, since at 

 such places the sportsmen can learn all 

 about the best guns and ammunition for 

 bird shooting as well as the comparative 

 merits of pointers and setters. 



Some Progressive Ideas. 



The Montclair Gun Club, a new Boston 

 organization, has the right idea. Its traps 

 will be open all day with a professional on the 

 grounds to give instruction, just as the golf 

 club professional does. The club will be con- 

 ducted along the lines of the modern golf 

 club. Cards will be placed in the hotels telling 

 of the club, where it is located, etc., and every 

 hotel clerk will be posted about the club. 

 What Boston can do Philadelphia, New York, 

 Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and other 

 large cities can do. Everything depends upon 

 the trapshooters themselves. — National Sports 

 Syndicate. 



Many of the game-shooting clubs 

 should be glad to have visitors see the 

 abundant quail, pheasants, wild ducks, 

 etc., at any time during the breeding 

 season. 



Mr. Warren R. Leach of Rushville, 

 Illinois, who is well known to many of 

 the older readers of The Game Breeder 

 who read his articles on breeding, writes 

 that he received inquiries in answer to 

 his advertisement, but that the big and 

 small game in his park has not been sold. 

 The advertisement was only for one 

 time and so states. Those in charge of 

 The Game Breeder 'think far more of 

 doing some good in the world than they 

 do about making money. Mr. Leach 

 says it is likely that some people thought 

 I merely claimed to be ill. 



We have known what the trouble is. 

 We were sorry to have Mr. Leach say 

 in his letter, "I'll be 'going West' some 

 day in the very near future." But he 

 adds, "I would be just as happy and 

 care-free if I knew it was to come before 

 this letter reaches you." 



There is a much bigger demand for 

 birds than there is for bison and other 

 big game, but Mr. Leach's stock is ex- 

 cellent. We hope it will be sold. We 

 are running his ad a second time without 

 pay and without an order. We hope it 

 will benefit Mr. Leach. 



