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see the day when they can have the same believe this plan in many States will 



freedom in America that such gunners work, 



have in other civilized countries. We Ohio is next door to Indiana. The 



know that there is a big prejudice against best that could be done in that State this 



these good old honest souls which some- year, we are told, was to permit the 



how does not attach to similar charac- profitable breeding of pheasants only 



ters who take fish for us to eat. We under a law providing for a 50-cent li- 



have been willing to compromise and let cense. If , Mr. Talbot can reform his 



the market gunners be kept out of their neighboring State, Ohio, we will shout 



homes in the country until such time as for joy. 

 those who wish to destroy game for fun * " 



produce enough to help fill the markets. CORRESPONDENCE. 



The reason market gunners can sell Editor Game Breeder: 

 game abroad is, no doubt, that the farms This is for publication if you can give 



and other private lands are made to pro- it space. 



duce game as they should. It has al- I thank you for the publication of my 

 ways seemed strange to us when a "true portrait in your May issue, but I would 

 sportsman" remarks that the people own have been more grateful to you if you 

 the game and therefore no one can have had taken a sane view of the Indiana law 

 any but him. "I will consent," he says, in that issue instead of criticising that 

 "to a law that even I cannot give any law. It is no pleasure for me to see my 

 away." Is it no longer more blessed to portrait publisheci in conjunction with a 

 give than to receive? Game is a highly principle or argument that I know to 

 valuable food for invalids. Any physi- be absolutely wrong, because it seems to 

 cian will say that it has a special value lend my sanction to the erroneous views 

 besides tempting the appetite. When a expressed by you concerning legislation, 

 "game hog" who had shot a few more Your idea of only permitting game 

 birds than he needed proved that he had breeding by private individuals for profit 

 sent them to a hospital the great ex- under a license from the State is en- 

 pounder of the "game hog" idea, Shields, tirely wrong. Your idea that game pro- 

 f rankly said :^^ "That is an extenuating duced by private individuals should not 

 circumstance. be sold except after having been tagged 

 We are willing to go the limit, or after a permit has been received from 

 Brother Talbot, and we sincerely hope some State officer is entirely wrong, 

 you will join us when we restore the Your views on this matter will not make 

 good old wild fowlers to their cabins by it right and it is your views on this mat- 

 the sea. As a matter of compromise, ter that keep The Game Breeder from 

 however, we consent for the present to being the success that it should be. 

 delay them until game becomes so If no one could raise ducks or chick- 

 abundant that everyone can have it, ens without a State license, practically no 



cheaper than poultry," just as the in- farmer would raise them. If no one 



habitants of other civilized countries could sell ducks or chickens without 



^^^ ^\- first obtaining a tag or a permit from 



Again we say we are delighted that State authorities, there would be very 



Indiana is in advance of the more game few offered for sale. Your ancestors 



possession. We shall observe the in- who first domesticated animals did so d 



dustry in that State and we hope to re- because they were not hampered by any ■ 



port It fully. Our difiference is simply license foolishness or tag foolishness. It 



one of expediency and we believe we is all nonsense to say that such laws 



know what can be done and what can- safeguard wild game. They do nothing 



not be done just now in some localities of the kind. Laws prohibiting the kill- 



Ijetter than Mr. Talbot does. We are ing or selling of wild game and placing 



wUhng to make haste slowly since we upon any person prosecuted the burden 



