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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JUNE, 1915 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 



PUBLISHERS, 150 NASSAU ST., Nkw YORK 

 Telephone, Beekman 36f>5. 



ANOTHER GAME BREEDING 

 STATE. 



Three cheers for Connecticut ! 



Just as we go to press the news comes 

 that the Connecticut legislature has en- 

 acted a game breeders' bill permitting 

 the breeding and sale of deer, pheasants 

 and wild fowl. This has been signed by 

 the Governor and is now a law. 



As is usual in first attempts, an impor- 

 tant subject is approached wrong end 

 first. The law should have permitted the 

 profitable breeding of all species of 

 game. It is absurd to permit the saving 

 of pheasants, which are in no danger of 

 extinction, and to deny the care and at- 

 tention of breeders to the indigenous up- 

 land game which most needs practical 

 protection. 



It is a distinct gain, however, to say, 

 "wild fowl," and to not limit the indus- 

 try to the common wild ducks, "mallards 

 and black duck^," as some statutes do. 

 These birds are in no danger of extinc- 

 tion as the wood-duck and some other 

 wild fowl are. 



We can promise the Connecticut 

 breeders that the New York market will 

 quickly be opened to the foods they pro- 

 duce. The Game Conservation Society, 

 The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies and other associations whose 

 co-operation is assured will soon see that 

 a common sense law is enacted permit- 

 ting the sale in New York of the wild 



foods produced by industry in other 

 States. 



It is absolutely safe to purchase cheap 

 lands in Connecticut to be used for game 

 breeding. Some sales will be made to 

 people who take our advice. There can 

 be no doubt about the matter. The New 

 York market soon will be open to the 

 foods produced. 



Lands can be purchased at $2.00 per 

 acre and up. Pheasants sell readily at 

 $2.50 each; wild ducks sell at $1.50 and 

 $2.00 each for common species; others 

 bring $10.00 per pair and more. The 

 new industry is profitable. 



A FRIENDLY DIFFERENCE. 



We take pleasure in printing the let- 

 ter of Mr. John W. Talbot of Indiana. 

 Mr. Talbot has done something in his 

 State which we believe it would be im- 

 possible to do in many States at the 

 present time. Our admiration for what 

 he has done is unbounded. We certainly 

 had no intention of belittling or criticiz- 

 ing the Indiana law which places game 

 breeding on the same basis as the breed- 

 ing of poultry. This undoubtedly is 

 right on private lands. 



We said we preferred a breeders' law 

 which licensed the industry and we do, 

 for the present at least: 



First — Because we believe it is pos- 

 sible to get such an enactment in States 

 where it would be impossible to go the 

 limit as Mr. Talbot has done. We are 

 willing to back a compromise measure in 

 localities where we are sure the opposi- 

 tion is strong enough to insist on such 

 compromise. 



Second — Because there is a difference 

 between game and poultry. There is, 

 and we hope there always will be con- 

 siderable wild game, which is said to be- 

 long to the State because it has no 

 owner — such as the game in public parks 

 on wild and unposted lands and on pub- 

 lic marshes and waters. The people who 

 are interested in this game firmly be- 

 lieve, and experience has proved they 

 have reason to believe, that if the game 

 produced by breeders is sold legally it 



