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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1915 



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Entered as second-class matter, July 9, 1915. at the Post 

 Office. New York City, New York, under the Aot of March 

 3. 1879, 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Pbixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



"IN CAPTIVITY" NONSENSE. 



It is quite as absurd to insist that all 

 game must be reared "in captivity" as it 

 was to insist that it must be killed, 

 "otherwise than by shooting." 



The "otherwise" nonsense has been 

 removed from the statute books and we 

 would strongly urge our readers to pre- 

 vent the perpetuation of the "in captiv- 

 ity" nonsense whenever this absurdity 

 makes its appearance. 



Farmers and fruit-growers are not 

 obliged to raise their corn, or hay, or 

 apples in greenhouses. The laws per- 

 mit them to do so if they wish to do so, 

 and thus it should be with game; the 

 breeders should be permitted to rear 

 game birds in captivity or even under 

 glass if they wish to do so, but they 

 should not be compelled by law to rear 

 "in captivity" the species which do not 

 lend themselves to hand-rearing. The 

 most sanitary methods; the best; the 

 cheapest; the most successful methods 

 of breeding quail, grouse, teal and some 

 of our other splendid game birds are 

 wild breeding methods far removed from 

 the ideas of "in captivity" cranks. Many 

 readers of The Game Breeder now rear 

 and shoot thousands of quail every sea- 

 son under the most natural conditions. 

 Some of our readers now rear thou- 



sands of grouse wild in their woods. 

 Unfortunately it is difficult to get them 

 to write stories about their successful 

 enterprises since they wish to escape the 

 attentions of their "in captivity" friends. 

 They believe, as we do, that they own 

 the grouse and quail and ducks which 

 they produce. They harvest them in big 

 numbers and fortunately, in most cases, 

 they escape the attention of "in cap- 

 tivity" mischief makers. 



The laws do not provide that one must 

 rear his turkeys in the way which is 

 sure to produce "black-head," or his 

 chickens in a way which seems certain 

 to produce roup. If he prefers to rear 

 them in a sanitary way least likely to 

 produce diseases he is permitted to do so. 



We are by no means opposed to the 

 many interesting experiments which are 

 being made with hand reared quail and 

 grouse. Similar experiments have been 

 made with the gray partridges and red 

 grouse in Europe; but the big numbers 

 of these birds annually shot, marketed, 

 and eaten are reared wild in protected 

 fields and woods. The pheasants and 

 the mallards are hand-reared abroad in 

 big numbers just as they now are in 

 America. 



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A BIG MISTAKE. 



It is a mistake of large proportions 

 to say that game breeders can only deal 

 with deer and foreign fowls and the 

 more common species of wild ducks. 

 This nonsense has appeared in several 

 states following the compromise in New 

 York, where the celebrated Bayne bill, 

 intended to prohibit the sale of rabbits 

 was amended so as to permit the sale 

 of deer, pheasants, mallards and black 

 ducks. We urged at the time that it 

 was even more important to encourage 

 the practical protection of quail and 

 grouse and the vanishing wood-duck and 

 woodcock. Mr. Roosevelt, the chairman 

 of the Senate Committee, recognizing the 

 fact that it was "going some" to make 

 a bill intended to prohibit the sale of a 

 rabbit read so as to permit the sale of 

 deer and game birds, remarked to the 

 writer that in the future the law un- 

 doubtedly would be further amended so 



