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THE GAME BREEDER 



♦ per pair in the markets and the sports- 

 men should pay fair prices for the shoot- 

 ing provided they can sell a lot of the 

 ducks to secure the money for the shoot- 

 ing rental. It seems idle to urge a 

 farmer to pay taxes on such properties 

 simply that he may entertain licensed 

 trespassers. The duck shooting surely 

 will be ended when the marshes are 

 drained and it would be far better for 

 the sportsmen to form many shooting 

 clubs and preserve many of the marshes. 

 Where thousands of ducks are reared 

 many will fly away to the rivers and 

 other public waters where the public can 

 shoot. The Game Breeders' Association 

 when it reared ducks on Long Island, 

 N. Y., furnished at least a thousand 

 ducks for the waters outside the preserve 

 in one season. 



Pheasant Breeding in Ohio. 



It seems likely that Ohio will enact 

 a game breeders' law permitting the 

 breeding of pheasants for the market. 

 The Sportsman's Review, quoting a Co- 

 lumbus paper says : "The pheasant 

 weighs about four pounds and would 

 now bring in the open market $1.50 and 

 the demand is unexhaustible according 

 to General Speaks. It is a most prolific 

 bird, the hen laying about forty eggs 

 and the spring hatch is ready for the 

 table by fall, thus bringing a quick re- 

 turn. The flesh is light and very palat- 

 able. The bird is sold in all the markets 

 of Europe just as poultry is sold, and the 

 demand there gives hundreds a living 

 with comparatively little work." 



General Speaks, the Ohio Game War- 

 den, predicts that within five years a 

 large number of people in Ohio will be 

 raising the birds for the market. 



The Prices of Pheasants in New York. 



"The Ohio people will be interested to 

 learn that the pheasants bring $2.50 each 

 in New York, when sold to dealers and 

 hotels in large lots. The Astor Hotel 

 purchased all the pheasants a big club 

 wished to sell and one of our readers 

 who has a farm in Dutchess County, sold 

 three hundred birds last fall to a game 



dealer for $2.50 each. Most of the 

 hotels and clubs could not get any phea- 

 sants. There is a demand for hundreds 

 of thousands in New York City.. 



Game Breeding in Canada. 



We predicted that Canada soon would 

 feel the "more game" breeze which has 

 been blowing with increasing velocity in 

 the United States, and which assumed 

 cylonic importance in Indiana, recently, 

 when it ceased to be a criminal offence 

 to rear any species of game for profit. 

 The Free Press, London, Ontario, men- 

 tions, among the entirely new sugges- 

 tions made to the fish and game com- 

 mittee of the legislature, "a provision 

 for the sale of imported game or that 

 raised in captivity; permits to take game 

 for propagation purposes and to trans- 

 port the same." 



We are told there is a possibility that 

 after this year no wild ducks will be 

 offered for sale in public markets of the 

 province. 



The Sale of Trout and the Price of 

 Tags. 



It is only a few years ago that the 

 New York League of Sportsmen, in 

 convention at Syracuse, was asked to en- 

 dorse a proposed law favoring the sale 

 of trout produced by industry. The 

 editor of The Game Breeder was present 

 and, of course, favored this common 

 sense measure. 



Dr. Dutcher, the President of the 

 Audubon Society, spoke in opposition to 

 the measure and termed it "an entering 

 wedge." If such a law should be en- 

 acted he said, in another year these gen- 

 tlemen will be here urging a measure to 

 permit the sale of game. Our feathered 

 friends will be in danger, etc., etc. He 

 did not have to wait another year since 

 on the following day the editor of The 

 Game Breeder, who had been invited to 

 address the convention, read a paper 

 advocating the selling and the eating of 

 the edible "feathered friends." when 

 produced by industry. The sale of trout 

 was soon permitted, and not long there- 

 after the sale of certain food birds and 

 deer was permitted provided they be 



