10 THE GAME BREEDER 



forward or backward. He had starved because we do not let foxes, hawks, dogs, 



to death. cats and many other kinds of vermin 



We secured two foxes, as you will ^^^ j^_ j^e Game Breeder has given 



see, and the hawks shown m the other , cnrrerf pHvire and we all ire 



. , /-^ • 1 J i 1 us tne currcct auvice diiu. we dii circ 

 pictures. Our game is abundant because 



we look after it and feed it in winter and much interested in the magazine. 



A NEW JERSEY PHEASANTRY. 



With Some Comment on the Laws of the Empire State Which Require New 



Jersey Pheasants to Be Shipped to Liverpool and Back Before They 



Can Be Sold as Food in New York. 



[This is the twenty-second of a series of two hundred articles about American game farms 

 and preserves. — Editor.] 



Unless the New York game laws of what he succeeded in trapping, a 

 which make it imperative for a Haddon- naturalist. So it was quite consistent 

 field pheasant to travel all the way to that, on his new quest, the idea of 

 Liverpool and back across the broad At- adopting game of some kind and rear- 

 lantic before it can appear for sale in ing it appealed to him. He always had 

 the market of the Empire State are been interested in the pheasant, princi- 

 changed, the Legislature at Albany will pally because of the difficulty of rear- 

 find itself facing a serious situation, ing it • in captivity, so the gamey bird 

 Already the Governor has been ap- was decided upon and the hobby hunt 

 pealed to and his attention drawn to the ended, and the Reeves pheasant farm 

 infringement by the game laws of his started. 



State of the rights guaranteed under From a few small pens it grew until 



the Federal Constitution, and he has it covers nearly a half-acre under wire, 



been requested to suggest to the Legis- with many buildings and coops to ac- 



lature that it do away with the double commodate the 80 or 90 birds kept on 



transatlantic voyage of the American- hand for breeding purposes. And dur- 



born game bird, thus shortening the trip ing all these years Reeves has refused 



of the New Jersey pheasant from some- to commercialize his hobby. He started 



thing like 6,000 miles to 60. with the idea of making his pheasant 



As the representative of the New farm a producing home from which the 



Jersey pheasant the initial step toward product would go to stock the wooded 



this important reform in the New York district of South Jersey, and hundreds 



laws was taken a few days ago by S. of birds have been liberated through 



V. Reeves, of No. 114 East Park ave- that section of the State by him in the 



nue, when he brought this violation of past quarter. 



the comity of States to the Governor's But even hobbies sometimes show a 



attention. Since then he has been busy disposition to become unmanageable, and 



with the campaign which, it is expected. Reeves found that, while it was easy to 



will result in relieving the New Jersey supply the wilds with birds, something 



bird from the danger of being confis- more was needed. One thing in partic- 



cated when on sale in a New York mar- ular attracted his attention, the market 



ket unless an official foreign passport, conditions and marketing restrictions, 



guaranteeing its legal right to be there This led him to investigating the game 



is found tucked under its wing. laws of other states and one of the 



Thirty years ago Reeves felt the need things he discovered was that New York 



of a hobby. When a boy he had been excluded the New Jersey pheasant while 



a famous trapper of small game and it admitted those shipped from European 



birds and had become, through his study ports, and, what was still more interest- 



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