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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^ e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited bv DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 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, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



E). W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



lation will be largely increased. Sample 

 attempts in this direction easily indicate 

 that a large circulation quickly will be 

 obtained. Those who read the magazine 

 continually procure new readers. Those 

 who have birds or eggs to sell report 

 splendid results and many advertisements 

 come unsolicited. 



The opportunities for excellent sport 

 soon will be much increased. Sport for 

 all classes has nothing to fear from a 

 great abundance of game, which seems 

 to be assured. The sales of ammunition, 

 guns, dogs and the appliances for game 

 breeding soon will indicate the value of 

 the movement for "more game." 



THE GAME BREEDING 

 OUTLOOK. 



The Game Breeder soon will have a 

 younger and more active editor. Look- 

 ing back over the work accomplished we 

 feel that it has been fairly well done and 

 looking at the vast food producing in- 

 dustry which is now country-wide, we 

 take some satisfaction in the thought 

 that the words "more game and fewer 

 game laws" started a movement which 

 has proved to be quite worth while. The 

 wise old dean of sportsmen, the late 

 Charles Hallock, when he wrote that we 

 were right, predicted it would take a 

 long time to overcome existing preju- 

 dices and that he doubted if it would be 

 possible to accomplish all that the pro- 

 gram called for. The success of the 

 movement is now well known to all of 

 the people. 



As amended, the United States Migra- 

 tory Bird Law is perfectly satisfactory. 

 The Biological Survey undoubtedly is ad- 

 vancing the cause of game breeding 

 which is given full and ample protection 

 by Section 12. There is need for an 

 educational campaign in order that the 

 States may all have a simple law encour- 

 aging and not preventing the profitable 

 production of all species of game. 



The Game Breeder now can be made 

 much better than it has been. Its circu- 



BUFFALOES, GROUSE AND 

 GAME OWNERSHIP. 



There are a little over 3,000 bison or 

 buffaloes in the United States. Approx- 

 imately a little over 2,000 are owned by 

 individuals. 



We believe we are right in saying that 

 all the bison owned by governmental de- 

 partments were procured by purchase 

 from private owners or have been bred 

 from animals so procured. Had it not 

 been for game breeders the species would 

 be extinct. 



A large herd of "bison was sold to Can- 

 ada some years ago because no one in the 

 United States wanted them. There are 

 said to be about 3,500 bison in Canada, 

 and we presume these figures include the 

 wild wood-bison, one. of which was shot 

 by the late Harry Radford on his un- 

 fortunate expedition which resulted in 

 his death. Some of our older readers 

 will remember his account of shooting 

 the wood-bison. 



A law was enacted in Colorado pro- 

 tecting the buffaloes at all times while 

 they still occurred in the State, but the 

 animals became extinct while the law 

 Was in the books. 



The prairie grouse are extinct in 

 States where easily they can be restored 

 and made an abundant food crop as soon 

 as it is possible to procure breeding 

 stock. There probably will be no de- 

 mand for bison as objects of sport, but 

 surely there will be, and is, a demand for 

 the grouse. Fortunately many readers 



