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THE GAME BREEDER 



ducks, quail, grouse, pheasants and other 

 game, and to fix the seasons for shooting 

 them.. It is fine to feel that arresting 

 officers can give their entire time to pub- 

 lic lands and waters, which need their 

 attention, and to know that the game 

 laws providing for the shooting of three 

 birds in a season (or none as they provide 

 in many states) do not apply to game 

 farms and licensed breeders. It is a good 

 plan to shoot enough so as to send some 

 to market and let the dear people, who 

 are said to own the game, have some 

 to eat. Quickly they will cease to be 

 enemies of sport. 



Trout Tags. 



As we predicted, the New York law 

 has been amended so as to provide that 

 the tags used for identifying the trout 

 sold by breeders shall be supplied at cost, 

 instead of at three cents each. This will 

 reduce the price of trout in the markets, 

 no doubt, because the cost of the tags is 

 very small. Mr. Charles J. Vert is en- 

 titled to the credit for securing this im- 

 portant amendment. 



officers do not favor the arrest of food 

 producers and that they are in favor of 

 game breeders' enactments intended to re- 

 move all doubt about the legality of an 

 industry which promises to make the de- 

 partments of great economic importance, 

 representing all of the people, and not 

 mere governmental side-shows. 



It is fair to say that the Rhode Island 

 officers are not members of The Game 

 Conservation Society and that they do 

 not read The Game Breeder. It is not 

 surprising, therefore, that they should be 

 working in the old fashioned way and 

 that, possibly, they still believe that the 

 right way to make food abundant is to 

 arrest the producer. We would suggest 

 that they get in touch with the Massa-' 

 chusetts, New York, New Jersey, Ver- 

 mont, Colorado, California and other 

 State Commissioners, who have had a 

 chance to observe the operation of laws 

 encouraging the profitable breeding of- 

 game. It might not be a bad idea for 

 them to join The Game Conservation So- 

 ciety and to read its publication, The 

 Game Breeder, regularly. 



Game Tags. 



Game breeders in New York and 

 some other states, are required to pay 

 five cents for each tag placed on a bird 

 or part of a deer sold. The cost of these 

 tags should not be more than the cost of 

 manufacture, a small fraction of a cent 

 per tag. The laws relating to tags for 

 game birds undoubtedly will be amended 

 so as to conform to the trout law as soon 

 as the attention of the legislature is called 

 to the matter. Game production should be 

 encouraged and not restricted or ham- 

 pered more than is necessary to satisfy 

 those who believe that the breeder's game 

 should be distinguished from the state 

 game on public lands and water. 



Friendly Advice to Rhode Island. 



Most of the State game officers in the 

 United States and some of the provincial 

 officers in Canada, are members of the 

 Game Conservation Society and read its 

 publication, The Game Breeder. It is 

 gratifying to observe that these game 



The Modern Evil of Giving. 



Urging a still further catch limit, Mr. 

 J. W. Stuber of Sidney, Ohio, in Sports- 

 men's Review, says where many fish are 

 caught, "there is a tendency on the part 

 of some to risk a violation by sale or by 

 GIVING THE BASS AWAY." 



This would seem to indicate that it is 

 not only an evil but a crime to give a 

 fish to a friend in Ohio. How would it 

 be if two fish were served at a friendly 

 dinner by an angler? Would a game 

 warden rush in and arrest him if he per- 

 mitted his friend to eat one of the fish 

 because it wis given away just as the 

 warden seized a New York man who 

 was about to eat a bird sent to him by a 

 friend who was shooting in Scotland? 

 Should the shake-down be $100 per fish, 

 the amount charged for each of the 

 grouse sent as a gift to the New York 

 man? 



We were taught that it is more blessed 

 to give than to receive, but often we are 

 told that we are too old fashioned to 



