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THE GAME BREEDER 



Don't Buy in Rhode Island. 



People who wish to purchase farms or 

 country places are advised not to buy 

 property in Rhode Island. The arrest 

 of farmer Austin for producing game 

 food on his farm seems incredible but 

 we have it over his signature that he 

 was arrested twice for this remarkable 

 crime — food producing! Think of it! 

 in a land so near the land of the free, 

 Massachusetts, that one can step out of 

 one state into the other. 



"More Game." 



Mr. C. M. Bernegau, President of The 

 Game Breeders' Association sends the 

 following statistics showing there is 

 "more game" in Germany. Over fifteen 

 million dollars worth is some game to be 

 sure, but it is a safe bet that America 

 will make these figures look silly in about 

 three years. Germany is about the size 

 of the American National Parks. We 

 have a few extra prairies, mountains, 

 fields, forests and farms outside the 

 parks, all of which can be made to yield 

 game abundantly. Hundreds of thou- 

 sands of game eggs were produced by 

 private industry and these are the eggs 

 which count. People who buy things 

 seem to do better with them than those 

 who receive small donations from the 

 State. The German figures are interest- 

 ing and instructive. If our parks can 

 be made to produce as much as Germany 

 does what would the returns be if one 

 half of the remaining land should be 

 made to produce game. 



"According to the German Imperial 

 Statitics for 1912, the following game 

 was killed in Germany and offered for 

 public sole: 



The Merry Dachshunds. 



A Chicago reader, writing to the 

 Rural New Yorker, says : 



I noticed the unsatisfactory reply to "A 

 Curse of Rabbits," in Dec. 26 issue. I have 

 been in a similar position but rabbits, skunks 

 and weasels have become rare guests on my 

 poultry farm, as well as rats, since I have 

 bought German dachshunds. These little fel- 

 lows are bred to a size that allows them to 

 enter a badger's or fox's hole, weigh about 

 12 to 15 pounds. They are not able to race 

 a rabbit, but since they have an excellent scent 

 they will dig out every one of them. If they 

 scent a rabbit in a hole you cannot drive them 

 away with a club. On my wood lot rabbits 

 keep themselves mostly under brush and not so 

 much in holes, but skunks have troubled us 

 more. It takes a courageous dog to get a 

 family of skunks out, to brave that blinding 

 srnell, to go in again and again, although half 

 blind, and the saliva running out in white 

 streams from their mouth. It is a pleasure 

 to watch these little fellows bite roots one 

 inch thick with their teeth in order to get 

 nearer to the animals. My German tenant 

 paints all my small fruit trees around the 

 ground with a mixture of lime and cow 

 manure, and claims this prevents damage from 

 rabbits. 



The curious little German dachshund 

 —-a dog and a half long and half a dog 

 high — as a comic paper described it, is 

 quite popular among rabbit shooters. 

 Many good dachshunds are owned and 

 bred in America. Some of our adver- 

 tisers can supply the best. 



my 

 up t' 



Falling Straight Ahead. 



Jay Green — I had a ride in 

 cousin's automobile while I was 

 the city. 



Aaron Allred — Ye did? How'd seem? 



Jay Green — Waal, it felt a good deal 

 like fallin' into a mighty deep well, only 

 ye dropped straight ahead instead of 

 downward. — Chicago News. 



1 



12,870 



pieces 



of red deer, Valu 



8,940 





" bucks. 



62,600 





" roe, 



4,350 





" black game boar, " 



14,950,000 





" hares, 



8,730,000 





" rabbits, " 



5,260,000 





" pheasants, " 



18,970,000 





" partridges, " 



96,400 





" mountain cocks, wood cocks, 



ducks, heath cocks, snipes, etc. 



M. 



772,200= 



. 402,300= 



939,000= 



152,250= 



31,395,000= 



5,238,000= 



7,890,000= 



15,176,000= 



144,600= 



rabout $ 193,050 



: " 100,000 



: " 234,750 



: " 38,060 



: " 7,848,750 



: " 1,309,500 



: " 1,972,000 



: " 3,794,000 



38,150 



Total value of game oflfered for sale. 



Marks: 62,109,350, or about Dollars 15,529,000. 



