T¥. Game Breeder 



VOLUME VII 



MAY, i9t5 



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SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 2 



Hon. W R, Eaton. 



Oklahoma's Opportunity. 



A liberal game breeders' law has been 

 enacted in Oklahoma providing, as all 

 such laws should, for the profitable 

 breeding of all species of game. Okla- 

 homa is a splendid country for game, 

 big and small, and as soon as the people 

 of the State understand how to look 

 after it properly and profitably vast 

 quantities of game birds and deer will 

 be produced. We predict that it will not 

 be long before the game brings large 

 sums of money to those who produce it. 

 There is no good reason why the hun- 

 dreds of thousands of dollars which now 

 are sent abroad for cold storage game 

 should not go to Oklahoma; there is no 

 good reason why a good part of the 

 vast sums which are now sent abroad 



for live game should not go to Okla- 

 homa. 



Some very active members of the 

 Game Conservation Society reside in 

 Oklahoma. A number of pheasantries 

 and game breeding associations will be 

 started and we predict that the sports- 

 men as well as the farmers and those 

 who like to eat game will be surprised 

 and delighted when the results of practi- 

 cal game handling become known. 



Oklahoma Game. 



Oklahoma is one of the best states in 

 the Union for quail and other game 

 birds and deer. Only a few years ago 

 thousands of birds were 'trapped and 

 sold alive at excellent prices. Since no 

 one looked after the birds and everyone 

 shot them who wished to do so, it would 

 not have been long without the game 

 breeders' law before the prohibition of 

 shooting would have become as neces- 

 sary in Oklahoma as it is in Ohio and 

 in many other states which prohibit the 

 profitable increase of game. 



Under the new law thousands of quail, 

 prairie grouse, wild ducks, deer, pheas- 

 ants, and other game, should be pro- 

 duced and sold every year. The people 

 of Oklahoma will bq interested to know 

 that wild ducks can be reared on suit- 

 able marshy tracts and about sloughs 

 and small ponds cheaper than tame ducks 

 can be raised ; prairie chickens and quail 

 and pheasants can be produced much 

 cheaper than poultry can be produced on 

 any farm. Having these facts in mind 

 the people of Oklahoma will be interested 

 to know that the birds named sell readily 

 at the following prices: 



Quail $15 to $25 per dozen in large 

 lot's. 



Pheasants $2.50 to $5 per bird for 

 common varieties. 



