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l)ank in the country because money some- 

 times has been loaned on stolen col- 

 lateral. 



The remedy, of course, is to stiffen 

 the criminal laws; to put the criminal 

 ■out of business (by revoking his license) 

 and in jail; if necessary. The innocent 

 and worthy producers of food should 

 not be the sufferers on account of the 

 wrong doing of one or even a half dozen 

 wrongdoers, if that number should ap- 

 pear during the next three years. A 

 State Game Department that can not 

 liandle a few dealers has no excuse for 

 its existence. 



The people who make a business of 

 game protection are well paid for their 

 activities, no doubt, but there is no good 

 reason why they should persistently 

 "handle the subject wrong end first. 



economic importance and that they 

 should represent all of the people, es- 

 pecially the food producers and food 

 eaters. 



GRATIFYING REQUESTS. 



Often we receive unsolicited requests 

 for The Game Breeder from libraries and 

 scientific and educational institutions. 

 This is gratifying. The story of the 

 *'more game" movement, as it runs 

 through the magazine, we are told is 

 well worth binding, and we are asked to 

 prepare an index and title page for this 

 purpose. From time to time we shall 

 publish the portraits of prominent 

 sportsmen, naturalists and successful 

 game breeders who are contributing to 

 make America the biggest game produc- 

 ing country in the world. 



QUAIL ON TOAST. 



We predict it will not be long before 

 an almost forgotten dish, "quail on toast" 

 is restored and we believe the quail soon 

 will be as abundant and cheap in our 

 markets as the gray partridges are 

 abroad. Many readers now^ are aware 

 that game produced by industry from 

 stock birds legally procured legally be- 

 longs to the producer and that such 

 game is not governed by the game laws. 

 Intelligent State Game Officers do not 

 often arrest breeders for producing food 

 and we are glad to observe that many 

 have accepted our idea that the State 

 Game Departments should be of great 



INCREASING PREJUDICE. 



The State of New York may prevent 

 the farmers in other states from selling 

 the game they produce in New York. 

 The State may insist that hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars must be sent abroad 

 annually for cold storage game, much 

 of which is not very good to eat because 

 of its long rest in foreign mausoleums 

 before it is shipped to America. In 

 some parts of the West it is the fashion 

 to say, "We must keep moving or soon 

 we will be as far behind the times as 

 they are in New York." A lecturer re- 

 cently made this statement from the 

 platform. 



Other states may possibly enact re- 

 taliatory measures and refuse to receive 

 New York products. Wc do not think 

 they will. They are too fairminded to 

 indulge in such performances. Because 

 New York goes wrong is no reason why 

 more liberal states should go wrong. It' 

 can not be denied that a decided pre- 

 judice exists in some parts of the coun- 

 try against New York. The refusal to 

 permit farmers to sell the food they pro- 

 duce will not tend to allay this prejudice. 



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A WARM RATION. 



Mr. Chas. J. Vert handed the Conser- 

 vation Commission some rather hot 

 stuff, at the Albany hearing, when he 

 pomted out the fact that they said they 

 needed the tax of from 18 to 24 cents 

 on all trout sold. No other countries 

 tax foods at this rate. 



Having helped Mr. Vert get the fish 

 question properly settled, as we did at 

 the start, we are counting on Mr. Vert 

 to help us put game on the same basis. 

 Trout are now freely sold by the breed- 

 ers of all states in the New York 



markets. 



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EXCITEMENT. 



We have a note from the President 

 of the American Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation in which he says he was mis- 



