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THE GAME BREEDER 



Praise for the Indiana Breeders' Law. 



The American, in a long article prais- 

 ing the new game breeders' law, secured 

 for Indiana by Mr. J. W. Talbot, says: 



Give private parties the right to rear quail 

 as a business and the interested persons will 

 protect, feed and care for them, and as a con- 

 sequence they will multiply. They will be 

 reared and frequently sold to clubs and indi- 

 viduals who will liberate them for stocking 

 purposes. Private and State hatcheries make 

 possible the restocking of our fishing grounds. 

 All the protective laws did not increase the 

 number of fish. ' 



A man will protect his money, and if his 

 money is invested in quail he will protect the 

 quail. It was Buffalo Jones who saved the 

 buffalo in this country, because he bought a 

 few specimens and kept them for their in- 

 crease. It is not always the hunter that kills 

 and exterminates game. Disease, starvation 

 and lack of proper care is the biggest factor in 

 game destruction. In a wild state it is esti- 

 mated that it required all North America to 

 support two hundred thousand Indians, and it ' 

 is estimated the population of this continent 

 was two hundred thousand when Columbus 

 discovered it. But civilization and comfort 

 enable more people to live in a given territory 

 than can live in the same territory in savagery. 

 What is true of human beings is true of game. 



Also, the time is rapidly passing when farm- 

 ers who own and cultivate the land will tolerate 

 laws made solely to permit some loafer with a 

 gun to tear down fences, destroy crops, shoot 

 domestic animals, kill human beings and out- 

 rage generosity for the purpose of calling him- 

 self a sportsman and killing game that the 

 farmer's land has protected and the farmer's 

 grain has fed. 



New Instructions Concerning Naked 

 Ducks. 



The following are the new "instruc- 

 tions sent to the collectors of customs 

 April 10th": 

 The Collector of Customs : 



The attention of the Department has been 

 called to the delay and inconvenience caused 

 to passengers returning from Canada having 

 wild ducks or other game birds in their pos- 

 session by the requirement that they give a 

 ■ bond for the destruction of the plumage of 

 the birds, which plumage is prohibited importa- 

 tion under paragraph 347 of the tariff act. It 

 is represented that in order to give the bond 

 required by the Department's regulations con- 

 tained in T. D. 33944, it is necessary for the 

 passengers to leave the train and in many in- 

 stances wait over another train, thus missing 

 connections for the remainder of their trip. 



You are hereby authorized in such cases to 

 permit a cash deposit to be taken by inspectors 

 on the train, thus avoiding the delays com- 

 plained of. Such deposit should be in an 

 amount double the value of the ducks or other 



birds, but not less than $10 to be carried as a 

 special deposit and refunded upon the produc- 

 tion of evidence that the plumage had been 

 destroyed. 



Respectfully, 



(Signed) A. J. Peters, 

 Assistant Secretary. 



The U. S. Treasury officials should not 

 be blamed for enforcing the .law pro- 

 vided they have interpreted it properly. 

 Those who secured its passage say they 

 did not intend any such absurdity as has 

 resulted. 



The trouble is too many laws are 

 made hastily and soon they are found to 

 belong in the "fool law" class. We in- 

 vite the attention of Congress to this law 

 and we hope it soon will be amended so 

 as to permit wild fowl to come in in a 

 presentable condition. We predict an 

 early amendment, and when you see any- 

 thing in The Game Breeder it usually 

 happens, sooner or later. 



A Fair Price for Eggs. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



I would not care to sell any eggs at 

 $12.00 per dozen, as I can make more 

 money by raising wild turkeys. Another 

 year I will keep over twenty-five extra 

 hens for the purpose of having the eggs 

 for sale. I will then advertise. 



H. P. B. 



Baltimore, Md. 



[We have just had a request for sev- 

 eral hundred wild turkey eggs but could 

 not secure them. The demand is increas- 

 ing and we hope all the wild turkey 

 breeders will arrange to sell eggs next 

 season. It should pay to gather eggs 

 at $1.00 each.— Editor] 



More Pheasants. 



A letter from the New York Game 

 Commission says pheasant eggs were dis- 

 tributed by the State last year to more 

 than two thousand persons. Granting 

 that many do not know much about 

 breeding the birds there should be "more 

 pheasants." 



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Members of the Game Conservation 

 Society are requested to purchase from 

 those who advertise. 



