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northern States) a cheap shed is all the 

 shelter they will need. Many birds can 

 be permitted to migrate. Some will be 

 shot within the State; some without the 

 State, no doubt, but the number which 

 will return to nest in the Spring will be 

 found to be quite satisfactory when the 

 fact that the Winter feeding has cost 

 nothing is considered. The danger is not 

 that the birds will be too wild but that 

 they will become too tame. By letting 

 them fly about and by not feeding them 

 too much this difficulty easily is over- 

 come. The State would do well to en- 

 courage every farmer who has any water 

 (the smallest creek or pond will do), 

 to rear wild ducks for sport and for pro- 

 fit. Sportsmen can be found who will 

 enjoy the shooting. The people who eat 

 will furnish the money to pay for the 

 sport. 



Raising Deer in Connecticut. 



The Norwich Bulletin says: 



There appears to be good reason back of 

 the bill which would give the people of Con- 

 necticut the right to raise deer for the market, 

 and it is not surprising that the hearing thereon 

 should have brought forth no objection, but 

 many advocates. At the present time the State 

 of Connecticut is engaged in the business of 

 raising deer at the expense of the individual 

 raisers of crops, but it is against the law to 

 kill them except under certain conditions, and 

 the placing of the venison on the market is 

 absolutely prohibited. 



What is sought under the proposed legisla- 

 tion is the right to establish a new industry. 

 The right to raise deer the same as other live 

 stock, in an enclosure which would give them 

 the proper protection, does not appear to be 

 an unreasonable request. Cattle and sheep are 

 to-day raised for the market and the business 

 returns a good profit to a large number of 

 farmers. Why shouldn't it be possible for 

 them to raise deer under proper conditions? 

 There can certainly be no more objection to 

 the raising of deer to kill than there can be 

 for doing likewise by domesticated animals. 

 Though there may be less sentiment in behalf 

 of the provision in the bill which would allow 

 a person engaged in such business to sell 

 shooting rights for sportsmen seeking deer be- 

 cause of the thickly populated conditions, there 

 can be no apparent objection to the idea of con- 

 tributing to the supply of fresh meat through 

 the raising of deer. In fact, it would have 

 been better if the State's activities in behalf of 

 deer had been confined to that privilege which 

 is now being sought. 



The venison crop undoubtedly would 

 soon be a big and profitable crop in Con- 



necticut and it could be made to utilize 

 much land which is now of little value 

 and unused, provided the American 

 breeders can have the same freedom 

 which foreign breeders enjoy. We have 

 seen wagon loads of imported deer go- 

 ing from the docks to the dealers in New 

 York, but if any Connecticut breeder 

 should send his meat to this excellent 

 market the food would be seized and the 

 dealer who handled it would be arrested. 

 Even if the State game officers should 

 tag the deer and notify the New York 

 game police that it was the personal 

 property of a Connecticut breeder who 

 had the right to sell the food, this would 

 make no difference. New York denies all 

 wild food producers in other States the 

 right to sell their food. The people have 

 a Statue of Liberty but foreigners have 

 the liberty in the New York market. 



Persistent Rumors. 



During the last few days there have 

 been persistent rumors, to the effect that 

 Germany was seeking the Remington 

 Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Com- 

 pany and some of the minor concerns in 

 America "not so much," the Commercial 

 Financial World says, "on account of any 

 shortage of ammunition for its own 

 armies, as with a view to putting an end 

 to the tremendous shipments which are 

 going forward to the allies." 



Mr. Samuel F. Pryor, Vice-President 

 and General Manager of the Remington 

 Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co., 

 was emphatic in asserting that there was 

 not the slightest foundation for the 

 rumors. Mr. Pryor added that the addi- 

 tions to the plant did not constitute a 

 mere temporary expedient, but were 

 largely made in accordance with the gen- 

 eral policy of expansion adopted by the 

 Company before the beginning of the 

 war and this policy would not be inter- 

 fered with even if the war were to come 

 to an end to-morrow. 



This is good news. What would 

 sporting America be without the Rem- 

 ingtons ? 



The Game Conservation Society is now 

 the largest association of game breeders 

 in the world. 



