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THE GAME BREEDER 



ers will report in response to this re- 

 quest they will reduce the amount of our 

 work and our expenses in connection 

 with the game census materially. 



We shall be obliged to our readers if 

 they will state if we may mention their 

 names in connection with their reports 

 or if they wish simply to have the 

 amount of game they own included in 

 our total estimates. We wish to have 

 the number of each species stated and 

 in no case will we publish the names of 

 the owners unless permission is given to 

 do so at the time the report is sent in. 



We have a general knowledge, of 

 course, about what many hundreds of 

 breeders are doing and about how much 

 game they own. We know enough to 

 know that our readers will be surprised 

 when they read the total amount of 

 game owned by breeders in the United 

 States and Canada. 



We shall be obliged to State game offi- 

 cers if they will send us an estimate of 

 the total number of game mammals and 

 birds owned by breeders within their re- 

 spective States if they have or can pro- 

 cure any such estimates. It should be 

 an easy matter to have the wardens re- 

 port the number of game animals owned 

 in their district and it will be interesting 

 to compare the State reports with the 

 totals furnished by members of the Game 

 Conservation Society. 



We request the State game officers, 

 most of whom are subscribing members 

 of the Game Conservation Society, to 

 report, also, the number of game birds 

 reared this season on the State game 

 farms in the States which have State 

 game farms. We would suggest that all 

 estimates be made as early in August 

 as possible. They should be addressed 



to THE GAME CENSUS, THE GAME 

 BREEDER, 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK. 



Notes from the State Game 

 Departments. 



Henry Rief, a State game warden of 

 Washington writes: 



I have been engaged in the breeding 

 of wild life for many years. I have 

 made a life study of this and know of 

 what you speak. 



It is absolutely necessary to propagate, 

 consequently you are making a step in 

 the right direction, but allow me to sug- 

 gest that while advocating propagation 

 you place reasonable safeguards around 

 protecting game so that it will not open 

 the gates for the poacher to go out in, 

 the fields and destroy what is still left. 

 This is an angle that should not be over- 

 looked. I am with you on all of your 

 good efforts. 



Game can be propagated in captivity 

 as easily as domestic birds and animals. 

 They are even more hardy than the do- 

 mestic creatures, but at the same time 

 ninety out of every hundred make a 

 failure of them for the reason that they 

 do not consider nature. Important 

 things to consider are — first, cleanliness. 

 Second — feed according to natural hab- 

 its and prevent close confinement. If 

 these are observed there is no reason 

 why propagating game in captivity 

 should not be a success. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



Your reader should have no difficulty 

 in keeping at least fifty deer in a 200 

 acre inclosure. This is a very conserva- 

 tive number for a tract of that size. 



All our deer are the common Ameri- 

 can white tail deer. We have sold a few 

 from time to time as our herd became 

 too large. 



E. I. Philbrick, 



Supt. Dept. Parks, 



Virginia, Minnesota. 



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