THE GAME BREEDER 



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understand modern game laws and game 

 law crimes. 



We thank the Lord that we still recog- 

 nize common sense when we observe it, 

 and we often think the good old dean 

 of sportsmen, Charles Hallock, was right 

 when he called for the present revival 

 of common sense, which has worked 

 wonders in some states. 



It would be an easy matter to keep 

 the Ohio markets full of game fish at 

 reasonable prices. 



Dogs in the Adirondacks. 



The New York law has been amended 

 so as to make the provisions of section 

 193 against the use of dogs applicable, 

 "in the forest preserve," instead of in 

 "the Adirondack Park." The prohibi- 

 tion against dogs is now in force only on 

 State lands within the Blue Line. 



A Bill of Fare. 



The Weekly Report published by the 

 American Association of Commerce and 

 Trade in Berlin, Germany, prints the 

 following bill of fare and says : "In refer- 

 ence to the much talked about food 

 question I can safely say that this mat- 

 ter does not give cause for any fear. 

 Recently I lunched with friends in the 

 famous restaurant of Kempinski, in Ber- 

 lin. Our check was — 

 1 Bottle of Wine (Berncastler).52 cents 

 3 Soups . . ■. 29 cents 



1 Portion Ham 36 cents 



2 Trout 43 cents 



1 Pheasant 22 cents 



1 Goose 36 cents 



1 Fruit Ice Cream 22 cents 



3 Coffees (Mocca) 29 cents 



Total $2.69 



Since the New York Hotels have been 

 purchasing pheasants at $2.50 each and 

 up and they serve fractions of a bird at 

 proportionate prices, 22 cents for a 

 pheasant in Berlin, at this time, must 

 seem reasonable to Americans. 



The Unnaturalized Foreign-born. 



The World. N. Y., says: 

 By prohibiting all unnaturalized foreign-born 

 persons from fishing and hunting in the State, 



the Pennsylvania Legislature comes pretty near 

 making it necessary for some would-be sports- 

 men to go equipped with their birth certificates, 

 marriage certificates and naturalization papers, 

 besides any form of license that Pennsylvania 

 may require, when they want to catch a perch 

 or shoot a rabbit. 



Since the unnaturalized foreign-born 

 had a habit of bagging a Pennsylvania 

 Game Warden occasionally it seemed 

 necessary to prohibit them from taking 

 the field. There was a serious objection 

 made to the law, the claim being made 

 that it was in violation of treaty rights, 

 but the courts have upheld it. 



An Economic Movement. 



The Sportsmen's Review says : 

 Many people are still of the opinion that bird 

 protection is wholly sentimental. Perhaps sen- 

 timent does play a great part in it as it does 

 ' in all important things of life, but when one 

 looks further into the subject he finds that the 

 movement is largely economic. The Rocke- 

 feller Foundation has only recently paid $225,- 

 000 for 85,000 acres in Louisiana which is to be 

 used as a game refuge for migratory birds. 

 There is without a doubt more than pure senti- 

 ment in this, for the promoters realize what 

 these birds mean to the farmer and the agri- 

 culturist, and that it is necessary to keep these 

 birds in order to have those who raise our 

 crops succeed. , 



The property purchased by the Rockefeller 

 Foundation is near Marsh Island, La., which 

 was secured by 1912 by Mrs. Russell Sage for 

 the same purpose. What makes it doubly 

 valuable is the fact that it adjoins a 60,000-acre 

 tract which its owner, Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny, 

 has devoted to bird protection. When the 

 Foundation carries out its intention of acquir- 

 ing all the available nearby land, these bird 

 refugees in Louisiana will become one great 

 game preserve of 500 square miles, covering 

 a frontage of seventy-five miles on the Gulf 

 Coast. 



The Hand Trap. 



The du Ponts are advertising exten- 

 sively the hand trap for clay bird shoot- 

 ing. Since the veteran. Fanning, is about 

 showing how to use this new trap the 

 sportsmen will no doubt soon use it ex- 

 tensively. The game clubs and preserves 

 all have trap shooting and now that they 

 have an abundance of game the members 

 do a lot of preliminary work at the traps 

 in order to be able to shoot well at the 

 game. Many hand traps will be used at 

 the game clubs, no doubt. 



