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There seems to be a very large demand 

 as we have received a great number of 

 inquiries for both eggs and birds, and 1 

 should think that another year would see 

 the demand increased, as there will be 

 more going into game breeding when all 

 fohe boys get out of the service. 



Egg Importations. 



A number of breeders report that they 

 will import some eggs of various species 

 next season. Possibly eggs again will 

 come in good numbers from England, as 

 they did before the war. We are inclined 

 to believe, however, there are more 

 pheasants in America than there are in 

 England and that both pheasant and 

 wild duck eggs will be produced next 

 season in sufficient numbers to fully sup- 

 ply the demand. Some of the places 

 which now have hundreds of breeding 

 birds will have thousands, and places 

 which were regarded as big a few years 

 ago will have to move rapidly if they 

 keep up with some of the new commer- 

 cial farms which we are told will be 

 started with an abundance of capital. 



Some of them already are asking for 

 the rates for advertising space. 



New Customers. 



The Game Breeder sees the importance 

 of creating many new shooting custom- 

 ers for the advertisers. Although the 

 business is so good now that some say 

 they do not find advertising at all neces- 

 sary, if the creation of game farms only 

 is promoted and no shooting clubs are 

 created to take their products the busi- 

 ness soon will be overdone. 



The State game officers have been 

 stimulated to become good customers by 

 the "more game and fewer game laws" 

 breeze, but the limit of their capacity 

 soon will be reached, since in many 

 States there are State game farms in- 

 tended to produce all the eggs and birds 

 needed. 



Our activity will largely be devoted to 

 creating new shooting customers. We 

 have plans for several in hand now, in 

 as many States, and all will need stock 

 birds and eggs, which will be purchased 

 from our advertisers if they heed our ad- 



vice and help those who have made game 

 breeding possible by supporting the 

 cause with their advertising. 



Peculiar Industry. 



It seems peculiar to some advertisers 

 that the game protectionists and "other- 

 wise than by shooting" enthusiasts are so 

 eager to pursuade them not to advertise 

 their game birds. The reason why re- 

 wards are offered to people to induce 

 them to desert the cause and its magazine 

 should be evident. The arguments are 

 plausible and the time given to them indi- 

 cates the alarm which exists. We man- 

 age to keep well posted on the perform- 

 ances of people who are in favor of game 

 farming but opposed to game shooting. 

 We know that the shooting is the induce- 

 ment to production. The Game Conserv- 

 ation Society is the only society actively 

 engaged in creating new shooting clubs 

 and in planning country places for their 

 owners so that they will produce game in 

 abundance for shooting. 



We can see the necessity for short sea- 

 sons, small bags and even for putting 

 quail and grouse on the song bird list. 

 We do not oppose such legislation, but 

 ask simply that a clause be added stating 

 that game-shooting customers as well as 

 game farmers be excepted from the laws 

 intended to save the vanishing State 

 game. 



We prefer to see the quail season kept 

 open for everybody, as it is on Long 

 Island, New York, where the quail clubs 

 not only keep up the quail supply on 

 their grounds, owned or rented for 

 shooting, but also on other lands open 

 to the public. 



Often we have pointed out that the 

 noisy game refuge is better than any 

 quiet refuge where shooting is prohib- 

 ited. The noisy places provide good 

 shooting for all the guns the land can 

 carry and more than could safely shoot 

 on the area were it not for the practical 

 protection given to the game. Quiet 

 refuges only add to the number of farms 

 posted against shooting, and we think 

 there are enough of these in most of the 

 States. The number evidently is in- 

 creasing. Few sportsmen now insist 



