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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, APRIL, 1915 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 

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THE ATTITUDE OF THE CAMP- 

 FIRE CLUB. 



Ernest Thompson Seton, ex-President 

 of the Camp-fire Club, the best and most 

 widely known naturalist in the club, in 

 a letter to the Eitor of The Game 

 Breeder, says : "The way to make 

 American game abundant is to commer- 

 cialize it." 



Many other prominent members of 

 the Camp-fire Club are members of The 

 Game Conservation Society and have 

 said they favor the sale of game by all 

 breeders in the best market, New York. 



Professor Pearson, Secretary of the 

 National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties, has endorsed this proposition. 



Mr. Marshall McLean, at Albany last 

 week, representing (or misrepresent- 

 ing?) the Camp-fire Club as its attorney, 

 opposed the Machold bill which provides 

 for the sale (in New York) of game pro- 

 duced by breeders in other states only 

 when the game is properly identified, 

 tagged and shipped with the authority 

 of the State Game Officers. 



We believe the majority of the mem- 

 bers of the Camp-fire Club are in favor 

 of the idea expressed in Mr. Machold's 

 bill. If so why should their attorney 

 oppose it? 



Here is a chance for the organ of the 

 club to grind out one little tune. Is 

 Field and Stream willing to have the 

 tail wag the dog or should the dog wag 

 the tail ? R. S. V. P. 



WRONG END FIRST. 



One of our Boston readers wrote that 

 the professional game protectionist 

 usually tackled the subject wrong end 

 first. The wrong way of handling an 

 important; subject recently has been em- 

 phasized by the attitude of the profes- 

 sional restrictionists towards the propo- 

 sition to permit the game breeders in 

 sister states to sell the food they produce 

 in the New York markets, where the 

 prices are the best, of course. Hun- 

 dreds of thousands of deer, pheasants, 

 wild ducks, quail and other game, mam- 

 mals and birds are now owned by Ameri- 

 can breeders. Some could send five or 

 ten thousand birds, and even more, tb 

 the market every season. There are 

 hundreds of elk and deer on many game 

 farms. 



It is proposed that the State Game 

 Officers in the states where this food is 

 legally produced shall properly identify 

 the animals as the property of the breed- 

 ers and tag the same with an official tag ; 

 it is proposed that before any shipment 

 IS made the shipper shall notify the New 

 York State Game Officers about the 

 .-shipment so that they can investigate it 

 and see that the food belongs to the ship- 

 per and that it is properly and legally 

 shipped. 



A few professional protectionists 

 claiming to represent two clubs, or the 

 Game Law Committees of these clubs, 

 say such shipments and sales of food 

 should not be permitted under any cir- 

 cumstances no matter what safeguards 

 may be proposed. 



It can not be denied that during the 

 last three years there has been one vio- 

 lation of the New York Game Laws re- 

 lating to the sale of game produced by 

 industry — an important violation, which 

 resulted in a fine of $20,000 being col- 

 lected. The fact, however, that there has 

 been one violation should not be made 

 the excuse for strangling a great food 

 producing industry throughout the na- 

 tion. Because a stolen diamond occa- 

 sionally finds its way to a pawn shop we 

 do not insist that there shall be no bor- 

 rowing or lending. We do not close every 



