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THE GAME BREEDER 



that others should not provide shooting 

 on places where there was none and 

 never would be any without industry. 

 The Dukes and Lords argument ad- 

 vanced by game politicians and profes- 

 sional game savers became a back num- 

 ber when the inexpensive quail clubs 

 proved how easy it is to have inexpensive 

 shooting in States where the quail is not 

 a song bird. They have been able to 

 keep the bird off of the song bird list and 

 always will be able to keep the quail 

 shooting good. 



To get back to advertising. The Game 

 Breeder only wants advertisers who get 

 results and who are willing honestly to 

 stand up for the right and sustain a good 

 cause, which surely has put game breed- 

 ing on the map and which promises 

 quickly to make North America the big- 

 gest game producing country in the 



world. 



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The Game Market. 



Reports coming to The Game Breeder 

 indicate that the fall market for live 

 game opened strong with comparatively 

 few birds being offered, although many 

 more birds have been reared this season 

 than ever before — many thousands more. 



Breeders seem to be waiting to see 

 what the prices are and we have many 

 inquiries, both in the mail and from pre- 

 serve owners, game-shooting club mem- 

 bers and commercial dealers who call at 

 the office when in New York. 



Several small breeders who have been 

 in recently said they had from three to 

 eight hundred pheasants. All seemed 

 disinclined to say just what their price 

 was and they wished us to suggest the 

 figure. A few who desired to sell part 

 of their birds quickly, intending to hold 

 the rest for better prices, suggested $4 

 for hen pheasants and $3 for cocks. 

 There was one offer of a lot of cock 

 birds as low as $2 each. Shooting clubs 

 should take up birds at this price quickly 

 since they will sell readily for $2.50 each 

 in the market after the shooting and 

 probably for more. 



We predict that the price soon will be 

 $5 for hens and $3 and $4 for cocks 

 and that it will go up as the season ad- 

 vances. 



There is much uncertainty, however, 

 since the crop reported throughout the 

 country is very large and if many of the 

 big breeders, who have large numbers of 

 birds, should decide to sell promptly and 

 not wait for better prices the market 

 might be temporarily affected. We know 

 about eighty new places, shooting clubs 

 and shooting places owned by individuals 

 who want a good lot of birds, that we 

 feel confident that every bird offered in 

 The Game Breeder will be sold at a sat- 

 isfactory price. 



The cost ' of labor and feed having 

 been high, the birds must bring good 

 prices and we are sure they will. 



Aviary Species. 



The prices of ayiary species are about 

 the same as last season. There seems 

 to be as much variation in price as there 

 was last year. Some breeders having 

 an unusually successful lot of one or 

 more species being willing to dispose of 

 them at a reasonable price. 



We have letters from game-clubs and 

 preserve owners which indicate that they • 

 have decided to take our advice and pur- 

 chase some aviary species as a side line. 

 There seems to be a strong demand for 

 Reeves, due no doubt to our suggestion 

 that a few of these would look well in 

 the bag. Several new "shoots" will give 

 them a trial. We have a new scheme 

 which will put up the prices when we 

 announce it, as we will soon with some 

 illustrations. 



Wild Ducks. 



There seems to be even more uncer- 

 tainty about the duck prices than there 

 is about pheasants. The liberal oppor- 

 tunities for trapping ducks, under the 

 Federal permits which cost nothing, sug- 

 gests that large numbers of ducks prob- 

 ably have been trapped and many more 

 will be when the birds come from the 

 north. There are hundreds of places 

 where skilled labor is employed which 

 are visited by wild fowl, attracted by the 

 birds bred on the ground and by the 

 abundant food, and were it not for the 

 fact that we have started a lot of new 

 places we would be inclined to think that 



