T¥. Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July q, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 



New York, under the Act of March 3, iSjg. 



VOLUME VII 



SEPTEMBER, I9J5 



NUMBER 6 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



Good Appointments. 



One of our Ohio readers writes that 

 Dr. W. J. Kirgan, of Cincinnati, and 

 Mr. I. S. Myers, of Akron, have been 

 appointed by Governor Willis as mem- 

 bers of the Agricultural Board to repre- 

 sent the fish and game interests of Ohio. 

 Our correspondent says : "I believe 

 these men are both of progressive ideas 

 and that the matter of game breeding in 

 Ohio will receive much attention on their 

 part." 



Ohio progressed slowly last winter. 

 The laws were amended so as to permit 

 the profitable breeding of pheasants only. 

 The absurdity of permitting the profit- 

 able breeding of foreign fowls, and at 

 the same time preventing the profitable 

 breeding of our native game will per- 

 meate in Ohio, no doubt, before long, as 

 it has in many other States which now 

 have thousands of wild ducks, grouse, 

 deer and other game to illustrate the 

 rapid increase due to the work of indus- 

 trious game breeders. 



We recommend to the Ohio officers 

 that they memorize the good old law 

 Latin maxim, which translated reads : 

 "The laws should aid the vigilant and 

 not the sleeping." 



More Game in Minnesota. 



A correspondent of the New York 

 World says : 



More than 100 residents on the 65,000 acres 

 of land within the Minnetonka game refuge 

 will raise mallard ducks, pheasants and quail 

 next season and if their ejiperiments prove as 

 successful as those of people in other States, 

 these three varieties of game birds may soon 

 be as readily obtainable in the markets as 

 chickens, turkeys and geese now are. From 

 5,000 to 10,000 eggs are to be distributed 

 among those who will encourage the propaga- 

 tion of wild life and if the ratio of young 



birds to eggs holds true, the refuge will be 

 heavily stocked, while outside of it by 1917 

 there should be more birds as fair marks for 

 sportsmen than are now under protection. 



We learned with regret sometime ago 

 that the large area referred to would be 

 added to the big lot of posted farms in 

 Minnesota and closed to shooting. A 

 large part of the shooting area is now 

 posted and, since some sportsmen do not 

 heed the warning signs and persist in 

 shooting until driven off, it is no won- 

 der that the farmers have been in favor 

 of putting the quail and the grouse on 

 the song bird list, and in favor of laws 

 protecting them from the guns at all sea- 

 sons. A license to shoot is not worth 

 much in many States. 



A Low Estimate. 



The estimate of Mr. Frank B. Blair 

 as to what will happen on the Minne- 

 tonka reservation is very low, absurdly 

 so, if any considerable number of the 

 people go in for "more game" for profit. 

 The increase would be still larger if the 

 game could be produced for sport, also, 

 because the sportsmen could furnish a 

 good part of the money needed to pur- 

 chase stock birds and eggs and to pay 

 for gamekeepers. The combined area of 

 a few places near New York very much 

 smaller than the area of the Minnesota 

 reservation will produce next season far 

 more game than the amount named by 

 Mr. Blair. 



We would be pleased to have Mr. 

 Blair inspect some of these places and 

 we can see that he does so if he ever 

 comes to New York and would like to 

 see the results of the "more game" move- 

 ment in this vicinity. 



Mr. Blair's opinion is given in full but 



