THE GAME BREEDER 181 



stand moisture for several seasons with- the breeders are not eager to have it 

 out rusting. Our idea is that readers known how much game they own. They 

 of The Game Breeder should have the do not care to have game officers visit 

 best of everything from guns and am- them and arrest them or threaten them 

 munition to pole traps, coops and wire as has been done in some instances. Al- 

 and other appliances. We are quite sure though they believe, as we do, that they 

 they are getting the best game birds and own the food they produce, they are 

 eggs from our advertisers and we shall aware that some ignorant game officers 

 be glad to know what wire is the best, are still inclined to make trouble. Un- 

 This only can be determined by those der these circumstances it is highly im- 

 who use wire. portant that we should not publish the 



— names of hundreds of breeders and we 



A member of the Fishers Island Club have decided to only pubUsh the total 



says : "Our pheasants at the club were amount of game owned by breeders in 



doing very well indeed and we had over ^^e different States 



2,800 young birds growing well, but a j^ -^ gratifying to observe that there 



few days ago the same disease struck j^ ^ |^^j^/^ %^ ^f sentiment 



?1T1^^ 1 '^ ^^^l' ^u'^^uJ'" throughout the country and that outside 

 sect that they pick up on the shrubbery ^^ ^ %^ benighted regions where old- 

 cleans them out at the rate of about a f^g^ioned gami officers still hold office, 

 hundred a day and there seems to be no ^^ objection is made to the game breed- 

 cT/find 5^^^'^^'"^ ^^'' '"'^'^ *^^ '""^ ing industry. In many places it has be- 

 rp, ■ ■ ,, u u 1, • J.- J. J t. come popular and is favored not onlv 



ihis matter should be investigated by , ^t, u „„<. ^^^^ <-^ ^.,+ u^■,^■ \^\r 



.u T3 r A • 1 T J ^ r ^1- by those who get game to eat but by 



the Bureau of Animal Industry of the . „ u f^^A t-u^ "^„^^fl^„." o,,/ 



TTCA-ii. 1-nv .. ^ sportsmen who nnd the overflow sur- 



U. b. Agricultural Department. • • i ^.4. *.• 



*' _ ^ prismgly attractive. 



Notes for our game census are com- ^ , _ ,. ~ . , 



ing in more rapidly than they did at O^^ of our Califorma readers writes 



first. We are surprised at many of the that he purchased several thousand wild 



returns. People we believe had only a ^uck eggs last spring ivom our adver- 



few birds report a few hundred. There ^^^ers m three Eastern States. He says 



are far more in the thousand class than o^^ large lot of eggs froni a New Eng- 



we thought there were. Anv one who ^^nd State came through m good condi- 



visits the game breeders and club pre- tion and that sixty-five per cen-t. of the 



serves where there were a few birds last ^SS^ hatched. Another lot of eggs did 



year will often be surprised at the big ^^'^^Y well but one lot of a few hundred 



numbers this season if he visits the e?gs purchased from a third dealer did 



breeding grounds. This is especially "o* produce a single duck. He thinks 



true of the small breeders who are breed- the eggs were held too long before being 



ing for commercial purposes. It also is shipped and that they were shipped too 



true of many small clubs and individual ^^te m the season. As he says m his 



preserves. The number of these is increas- ^^tter Eastern breeders when they receive 



ing rapidly. Our readers are again re- orders from California and other distant 



quested to send in their reports of the States should ship their eggs quickly 



amount of game they own. A post-card after they are laid and they should also 



will do. We are sending out thousands send eggs laid early. 



of letters and thousands of extra copies Contracts for eggs should specify the 



of The Game Breeder but the truth of date of dehvery. It is certainly unfair 



the matter is the work is much bigger, to accept an order for eggs early in the 



more difficult and expensive than we be- season and to not deliver the eggs until 



lieved it would be. June. We had a complaint about such a 



= late shipment of a few thousand pheas- 



In many States which have not yet ant eggs which went to one of the Cen- 



enacted our game breeders' laws we find tral States. 



