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THE GAME BREEDER 



Caught 51 Rats One Week 



1 2 one day in one trap, (resets itself) • 

 Catches daily, always clean, lasts for years, 

 22 inches high, made of galvanized iron, can't 

 get out of order, weighs 9 pounds. When 

 rats and mice pass device they die. Cheese 

 is used, doing away with poisons. One sent 

 prepaid on receipt of $3. Mouse trap 10 

 inches high, $1. Money back if not satisfied. 



M. D. SWARTS 



Inventor and Manufacturer 

 Universal Rat and Mouse Traps 



Box S66 Scranton, Pa. 



and is now a law. It did not include 

 wild ducks. There was much opposition 

 due no doubt to the fact that the propo- 

 sition is entirely new, if not radical. 

 The argument was used, and with good 

 effect, that during the open season next 

 fall, ducks would be slaughtered in the 

 marshes by parties who had previously 

 procured a breeders' license, and who 

 would thus be protected. Ducks will nr 

 doubt be included next .year if no unsat- 

 isfactory results follow the pheasant ex- 

 perience. 



We are putting out a considerable 

 number of birds and hope to distribute 

 15,000 to 20,000 eggs. 



Thanking you for kindly interest in 

 our work, 



Very truly yours, 

 . John C. Seaks, 



Columbus, Oho. Chief Warden. 



Editor. Game Breeder : 



Answering your letter of April 26th. 

 It is my belief that closing the market 

 to game was a radical step in progress, 

 and the only way for getting together 



all loose ends of the question. Now 

 that this has been done, the next step 

 in progress will consist in allowing game 

 producers to raise their very desirable 

 food supply in great quantities, and to 

 have such game animals and birds enter 

 the market under the supervision of a 

 State department. 



Robert T. Morris, M. D. 

 New York. 



MY LITTLE BOB-WHITES. 



- By Mary C. Wilkie. 



The story of my little quail does not 

 end so well as that of the wild turkeys 

 but I have always thought that, but for 

 the interference of a white Leghorn hen, 

 their career would have been fully as suc- 

 cessful. We took a dozen eggs out of a 

 quail's nest and set them under an ordin- 

 ary Plymouth Rock hen. While she was 

 a good setter, she broke egg after egg, 

 until only six remained. All hatched and 

 the little ones were tiny downy balls, with 

 the loveliest markings I ever saw. At 

 first they ate potato bugs, flies and seeds, 

 and had learned their foster mother's 

 cluck. I kept her confined in a wire 

 coop while the little Bobs ran in and 

 out at will. I moved the coop around 

 and the young birds grew tame and ate 

 readily from my hand. I could easily 

 have had the coop in the garden, but 

 never dreamed of harm. One day a 

 White Leghorn hen came along and 

 gobbled them up, every one. 



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four years of age and then continue 

 breeding^ — how long we do not know — 

 some of my best breeders are well past 

 fifty years of age and show no apparent 

 signs of senility yet. 



We sell the young pairs, when fully 

 grown, at $8 the pair and I offer a few 

 mated breeding pairs, due to breed this 

 spring as well, for $15 the pair and will 

 cheerfully exchange any of these pairs 

 after the second year, if they fail to 

 breed, provided they are given a proper 

 chance to nest. 



