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THE GAME BREEDER 



with a soft cloth dipped in warm solu- 

 tion — about 1 to 10,000 boric acid and 

 trusted in luck. But luck had deserted 

 me in this instance, for NO EGGS 

 HATCHED. Before burying the eggs 

 for manure I made a hasty, very hasty 

 I will say, examination of all remaining 

 eggs and found most of them addled, 78 

 per cent of the shipped eggs being rot- 

 ten, some 18 fertile but dead in the shell, 

 while approximately 89 per cent of my 

 eggs in the same incubator had been fer- 

 tile but spoiled as a consequence of 

 poisonous gases within the incubator. 

 Taking 65 per cent as a fair hatching 

 average that should have given me 162 

 ducklings out of 250 eggs, the potential 

 value of which 162 ducklings would have 

 represented over $400.00 by September, 

 it was a serious blow financially as well 

 as morally. 



I must here give full credit to the 

 breeder who, when notified of my ill- 

 luck, at once made good to the amount 

 of my order by shipping corresponding 

 number of live birds. 



Is this not a blue-ribbon winner for 

 ill-luck ? 



Yours for more game, 



Z. Ted De Kalmar. . 



Editor Game Breeder: 



As I am a reader of your magazine, 

 The Game Breeder, I would like a little 

 information concerning my ring-necked 

 pheasants. 



REMINGTON ANIMAL CHART. 



The Remington natural history chart of 

 game animals, just issued, combines artistic 

 interest and educational value to a degree sel- 

 dom accomplished in advertising. It is in 

 the form of an art hanger for display in 

 sporting goods stores, hardware stores and 

 sportsmen's clubhouses, and is reproduced by 

 the lithographic process from a full-color 

 drawing by Charles Livingston Bull. The 

 artist, who enjoys a deservedly high reputa- 

 tion for the distinguished, accurate and artis- 

 tic character of his work, perhaps has never 

 yet finished a drawing so interesting, and it 

 surely will add measurably to his renown. 



Thirty-one different North American species 

 are shown, the range being from the cotton- 

 tail rabbit to the giant Alaska brown bear. 

 They are placed in groups, appropriate to 

 geographical distribution and character of the 

 animals, are shown among their natural sur- 



roundings, and many are in action. To those 

 veterans .of the hunting trail who have made 

 first-hand acquaintance with many of them 

 it will be at once apparent that pains have 

 been taken to display the natural characteris- 

 tics of the animals in point of drawing and 

 coloring. 



In addition to the animals, there is an at- 

 tractive and accurate full-color drawing of a 

 target range with a group of shooters enjoy- 

 ing their sport of shooting bull's-eyes with the 

 small-bore rifle, the pistol and the military 

 rifle. 



Recommended Cartridges. 



As embellishments, there are full-color illus- 

 trations of the four most popular Remington 

 auto-loading and slide-action repeating rifles, 

 and forty-four most popular ball cartridges 

 manufactured by Remington U. M. C. Rifles 

 and cartridges, like the animals, are all care- 

 fully marked for identification, and to a cer- 

 tain extent the arrangement indicates the 

 sizes of cartridges recommended as being most 

 suitable for use in hunting the various game 

 animals. 



The new hanger will be supplied to every 

 Remington U. M. C. dealer, of which there 

 are more than 82,700 in this country. In addi- 

 tion, sportsmen's clubs and hunters' resorts 

 will receive them, and no doubt a certain 

 number will find their way into the homes of 

 individual sportsmen. 



Good Cause for Delight. 



A Red Cross man in the recreation 

 room of one of the Debarkation Hospi- 

 tals offered to send a telegram home for 

 a returning wounded soldier. This is 

 what the boy dictated : "Debarked, de- 

 loused, delighted. Jim." 



