THE GAME BREEDER 



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of showing that the game he sold was 

 raised in domesticity .would be a good 

 law. A law that compels correspondence 

 and expenditure of money in red tape 

 as a prerequisite to game breeding is, if 

 you will pardon the expression, damned 

 nonsense, and you never can expect 

 either through The Game Breeder or 

 otherwise to do much toward proper 

 laws and free game until you quit apolo- 

 gizing for proper laws for game breed- 

 ing. 



I noticed that when the Indiana law 

 was first proposed you were inclined to 

 find fault with its wording. Now you 

 are inclined to find fault with it because 

 it gives the people of Indiana an oppor- 

 tunity to raise game. It may interest you 

 to know that I have on file clippings 

 from twenty-seven Indiana papers en- 

 dorsing this law and urging the people 

 to begin game breeding. They take the 

 common sense view, which is not your 

 view. Your view that it will not result 

 in game breeding is wrong. It is already 

 doing so. 



If it is your purpose to pay salaries to 

 officers whether they be needed or not, 

 you are adopting the right course in 

 your editorial department. 



I trust you will give publicity to this 

 letter because I do not want to be mis- 

 understood and I do not want anybody 

 to use my name to mislead the people 

 as to what should be enacted in the form 

 of game laws. 



Yours very truly, 

 John W. Talbot, 

 Secy. Game Bird Society. 



Indiana. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



Some two years ago I wrote an ar- 

 ticle for Outing Magazine in which I 

 discussed this very question, of markets 

 for game under regulations. In this 

 article I endeavored to show that con- 

 siderable areas of our country, not alone 

 in the West, but in the East also, contain 

 large tracts of mountainous and other 

 land that is not and never will be 

 adapted to agricultural purposes but 

 which would support deer and elk and 

 other large game. In Dutchess County, 



New York, the county in which I live, 

 we have sufficient land of this character 

 to keep the entire county in fresh meat, 

 if it were fenced and deer and elk and 

 other animals of this character were pro- 

 pagated upon it. These animals could 

 be raised on such land at almost no ex- 

 pense — the expense indeed would consist 

 of a little feeding during winter months 

 when the ground is covered with snow, 

 and in this part of New York State such 

 periods are short. 



I also endeavored to show in the ar- 

 ticle mentioned that our present restric- 

 tions stand in the way, pretty absolutely, 

 of any investment along these lines. 

 There is no one in this country who is 

 more deeply interested in game preser- 

 vation than myself, but at the same time 

 I believe that our laws should be com- 

 mon sense laws that would permit us to 

 propagate domesticated deer and sell 

 them. Of course, this would have to be 

 under supervision that would be strict 

 enough to eliminate the possibility of 

 wild game being killed and run in upon 

 the market. It seems to me that a law 

 might be framed which would safeguard 

 our wild game and at the same time per- 

 mit the domesticated game to be killed 

 and sold in the open market and shipped 

 from one State to anothen Such a law 

 of course would have to be strictly en- 

 forced. The trouble with a great many 

 of our conservationists is that they are 

 unpractical in their methods, and lean 

 backward in the attempt to walk 

 straight. 



Yours very truly, 

 Dillon Wallace. 



Dutchess Co., N. Y. 



[The New York laws now permit th<^ 

 profitable breeding of deer, pheasants 

 and two species of ducks for sale. Many 

 deer and birds are bred in your county 

 and sold in New York City at excellent 

 prices. We hope you will favor the sale, 

 in the New York markets, of game pro- 

 duced by industrious breeders in other 

 States. — Editor.] 



Editor Game Breeder: 



The bill legalizing pheasants for com- 

 mercial purposes passed both branches 



