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THE GAME BREEDER 



cessfully rear thousands of pheasants 

 every season. Beginners should write 

 and get a little food before they purchase 

 young pheasants. Often they come to 

 the office of the Game Breeder to inquire 

 about food for pheasants. 



Long, Long Time on the Way. 



A Western reader writes we are satis- 

 fied if we wait for the State to furnish 

 good shooting we will have a long time 

 to wait. We will take the advice of The 

 Game Breeder and start something. 



There is plenty of room. Do not be 

 afraid that anyone will call you a duke 

 or a lord if you provide good shooting 

 for a lot of guns in a place where there 

 would be none without the farmers' per- 

 mission. If anyone calls you names tell 

 him to go to — well, anywhere. The old 

 song, "Shoo fly, don't bother me," can be 

 sung for his entertainment to advantage. 



How to Do It. 



The State Departments are doing the 

 best they can. They cannot perform an 

 impossibility. The farms are posted. The 

 farmers insist that game wardens must 

 protect them against trespassers. The 

 necessity for sportsmen taking our ad- 

 vice and combining to share the expense 

 of some good quail and grouse shooting 

 is evident. Quail shooting is the cheap- 

 est and the best. The dues in some of 

 the quail clubs are only $15 to $25 per 

 year, and the good shooting and the food 

 obtai'ned are well worth the money. 



Be sure and employ some one, at least 

 part of the time, to control the enemies 

 of the game and see that the birds have 

 a little brush or other cover at the fences, 

 and that a little food be planted and left 

 standing. Stop shooting after you have 

 shot a few hundred quail and find there 

 are only enough stock birds left for 

 breeding purposes. If you want a few 

 pheasants in order to have a mixed bag, 

 our advertisers will send them promptly 

 ?nd insure live delivery if you pay a lit- 

 tle extra for the insurance. 



If for any reason your breeding stock 

 gets too low drop a line to the nearest 

 game farmer advertising in The Game 

 Breeder, and he will repair the loss. 



Treat the farmer right, shoot in an or- 

 derly manner and take our word for it 

 you will not sell the bird dogs or will 

 purchase some more if you have already 

 quit the game in disgust and have sold 

 Fido and Don. 



If you find any kickers in the neigh- 

 borhood, inivte them into the game ; give 

 them some good shooting ; point out some 

 posted farms and tell them to get busy. 

 Arrange for the sale of some game if 

 necessary to keep expenses down. You 

 will make the people who eat it good 

 friends of field sports. 



Glad to Support the Game Breeder. 



The Marmot Pheasantry writes : Con- 

 tinue the same space for another year. 

 We are glad to support the movement, 

 and The Game Breeder has brought re- 

 sults. In fact, we have been unable to 

 fill even a small portion of our orders 

 for ring-necks. Week before last we re- 

 turned a check for $2,000 because we 

 could not fill the order, 



We never have been able to establish 

 a market for the ornamental birds and 

 are nearly disgusted with them. 



(We are advising the new game shooting 

 clubs to purchase some ornamental birds as a 

 side line and some of the owners of country 

 places also are doing so. The demands for 

 sporting birds always will be larger than the 

 demand for aviary species, but we believe the 

 demand for the last named will increase. — 

 Editor.) 



Good News. 



One of our readers who went into the 

 service, as many did, writes : 'We sold 

 out everything that we had in the line 

 of birds. We are looking for a .farm, 

 and as soon as we find one that will suit 

 our requirements we will start fixing it 

 up for next season, and we will raise 

 more birds than ever before. We will 

 have a full line of fancy birds and ducks. 



I hope soon to place my ads. in The 

 Game Breeder, as we found that we re- 

 ceived more inquiries through your paper 

 than from any other. I will take pleas- 

 ure in letting you know how we are get- 

 ting along, as I know you always are in- 

 terested in hearing from the - various 

 game breeders in this country. 



