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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 

 NEW YORK, JULY, 1915 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



Telephone, Beekman 8685. 



CANADIAN CLUBS. 



The Canadian Province of Quebec 

 properly leases shooting and fishing 

 rights to clubs and individuals. Many- 

 citizens of the United States and of the 

 other provinces of Canada are members 

 of these clubs which properly look after, 

 protect, and in some cases propagate, the 

 game and game fish and see that they 

 are always abundant. 



The Supreme Court has decided that 

 the right of fishing in inland waters be- 

 longs to the owners of the lands in front 

 of, or through which such waters flow. 

 The unsettled territory of the Province 

 of Quebec is enormous and notwith- 

 standing the fact that over five hundred 

 leases have already been granted to 

 sportsmen, there are thousands of miles 

 of good sporting territory still available 

 for private preserves. There are besides 

 vast areas where the public, resident and 

 non-resident can shoot and fish and the 

 shooting and Bshing on these lands and 

 waters are benefitted, we are told, by 

 the protection afforded to the game and 

 fish by the clubs. 



Many readers of The Game Breeder 

 are members of one or more of these 

 Canadian clubs and we hope to interest 

 them in breeding wild ducks on the club 

 grounds. Easily they can make the 

 ducks very abundant and by housing a 

 few stock birds in winter they always 

 can have breeding stock in the spring. 

 It would be a good plan after the ducks 



are well established to band some of 

 them and let them go South for the 

 winter. No doubt many of them will 

 return safely to nest beside attractive 

 ponds where food is made plentiful. 

 Some of our readers who let their ducks 

 go South for the winter report that 

 many return in the spring. We shall 

 publish a number of illustrated articles 

 about the attractive clubs and preserves 

 in the Province of Quebec. 



HARMONY. 



The Game Breeder is growing. New 

 members join the Game Conservation 

 Society daily and we often wonder how 

 they heard about it when their applica- 

 tions and the money comes in the mail. 



The interest taken in the work of the 

 society by prominent scientific men; the 

 requests from libraries and scientific as- 

 sociations for the publication of the 

 society and the prompt notices which are 

 received when for any reason a copy 

 of the magazine does not reach a mem- 

 ber, all indicate a gratifying interest in 

 our work. 



We are pleased to observe that the 

 National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties has created a department of ap- 

 plied ornithology, which is intended to 

 encourage the profitable breeding of the 

 wild food birds as well as to encourage 

 the practical care and protection of the 

 song birds and the smaller insectivorous 

 birds which, of course, should not be 

 killed because they are not good to eat. 



We are pleased to observe that the 

 American Game Protective Association 

 has given some attention to game breed- 

 ing and that it favors it. 



The Game Conservation Society does 

 not give as much attention to the non- 

 edible species of birds as the Audubon 

 Association does, but it is interested in 

 these birds and is aware that they are 

 tremendously benefitted by the practical 

 protection given to the edible species. 



We are pleased to observe that the 

 many game protective associations, 

 formed to secure restrictive laws in- 

 tended to save the game, no longer op- 

 pose the activities of the game breeders 

 and rapidly thev are becoming aware 



