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THE GAME BREEDER 



Wild ducks $2.50 to $3.00 each for 

 common varieties. 



Wood-duck, teal and others, $10 to 

 $30 per pair. 



Prairie chickens $8 to $10 per pair. 



We can put the Oklahoma game bred- 

 ers in touch with customers who will 

 take thousands of birds at the above 

 prices. 



We can furnish the names of people 

 who have purchased thousands of birds 

 at the above prices and who want many 

 thousands more. There is a demand for 

 hundreds of thousands of birds and the 

 business of producing them is most in- 

 teresting work for women as well as for 

 men. We can give the names and ad- 

 dresses of some women in other states 

 (where the laws are not so favorable as 

 they now are in Oklahoma) who are 

 making a lot of money selling game 

 birds and their eggs. Miss Helen Bart- 

 lett, of Michigan, Miss A. Hope Pick- 

 ering of Rhode Island, who advertise in 

 the magazine, are successful game breed- 

 ers. Mr. W. J. Mackensen, of Yardly, 

 Pennsylvania, can furnish many names 

 of customers who are successful in 

 breeding for " sport. 



Oklahoma a Good Egg State. 



Hundreds of thousands of game eggs 

 are now bought and sold by readers of 

 The Game Breeder every year. The de- 

 mand is increasing far more rapidly than 

 the supply is increasing. The eggs are 

 now sold by the thousand at the follow- 

 ing prices : 



Wild ducks, mallards, $25 per 100 

 eggs. 



Wood ducks, $100 per 100 eggs. 

 Other species, $50 to $100 per 100 

 eggs. 



Pheasants, common varieties, $25 

 per 100 eggs. 



Pheasants, other species, $50 to $200 

 per 100 eggs. 



It is not a difficult matter to gather 

 and sell wild duck and pheasant eggs 

 when you know how to keep the birds 

 laying well. Quail eggs can be sold 

 readily at $6.00 per dozen and more. It 

 is an easy matter to have an abundance 

 of quail nests and penned birds persist 



in laying when their eggs are gathered 

 so that each little hen should produce 

 more than $15 per year for its owner, at 

 a low estimate. 



The eggs of prairie grouse will bring 

 fabulous prices for some time to come 

 and by selling the eggs thet birds quickly 

 should be made abundant and kept so 

 on many farms. They should be kept 

 abundant for the very good reason that 

 it will pay to keep them abundant on 

 game farms. 



The New Oklahoma Law and the 

 Sportsman. 



The sportsmen of Oklahoma will re- 

 joice in the new law as soon as they 

 understand it and take advantage of it. 

 They should remember that it is an abso- 

 lute natural law that when any check 

 to the increase of game (shooting for 

 example), is added to the ordinary 

 causes of destruction (hawks, snakes, 

 foxes and other natural enemies) the 

 game must vanish from the earth, as it 

 always has, because nature's balance Is 

 upset. It is necessary, therefore, for those 

 who would shoot to persistently destroy 

 the natural enemies of the game to make 

 a place for the shooting. In Ohio the 

 sportsmen are not permitted to do this 

 because field sports are prohibited and 

 of course no one will look after the game 

 when it can neither be shot nor sold. 

 In Oklahoma the sportsmen have a rare 

 chance to form inexpensive shooting 

 clubs and to shoot all the game they can 

 eat and some for those who do not shoot. 

 Quite near New York our readers have 

 formed quail clubs which haye excellent 

 quail shooting every year at a cost of 

 from $10 to $15 per gun. This is far bet- 

 ter than the prohibition of shooting 

 which is favored by those who see the 

 game vanishing in many states. 



Every gun club and every trap-shoot- 

 ing club in Oklahoma should have a 

 game shooting ground. The Game 

 Breeder will furnish information about 

 the organization of the game breeding 

 Associations of various kinds which now 

 have excellent shooting every year. The 

 magazine contemplates offering a sub- 

 stantial prize for the Oklahoma club 



