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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 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 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



OUR GAME CENSUS. 



Work on the game census is proceed- 

 ing rapidly and we are more and more 

 surprised as the returns come in at the 

 amount of game now owned by indi- 

 vidual breeders, game farms and shoot- 

 ing clubs. When Charles Hallock, the 

 dean of sportsmen, wrote us stating that 

 in his opinion our long fight for more 

 game and fewer game laws had been 

 won we could hardly believe that this 

 keen old observer was right. The game 

 law industry in many States which re- 

 sulted in* the enactment of hundreds of 

 new restrictions appeared to be still 

 flourishing and at times it seemed to 

 offset the game breeders'enactments. We 

 were not fully aware how many breeders 

 there were in some States where the in- 

 dustry had been legalized and we were 

 not as fully posted as we now are about 

 hundreds of game breeders in States 

 where they appear to be conducting their 

 industry without waiting for the enact- 

 ment of breeders' laws. 



It appears that hundreds of thousands 

 of game eggs were sold by breeders last 

 spring and since the increase of game is 

 geometrical when it is properly looked 

 after it is safe to say that in two or three 

 years at most America will be the biggest 

 game producing country in the world. 



The pheasants and wild ducks appear 

 to be the most abundant according to re- 



turns thus far received but this is quite 

 natural since in some States it still is 

 criminal to look after quail and grouse 

 profitably. 



There are, however, hundreds of thou- 

 sands of quail on the game farms and 

 preserves conducted by our readers and 

 the bags run over a thousand birds at 

 many places. 



Enough elk and deer are now owiied 

 by breeders to quickly supply the New 

 York markets with venison as soon as 

 the law permits the sale of this desirable 

 food. 



The figures of our census will prove 

 a valuable aid to those interested in se- 

 curing permissive legislation. They 

 should disarm the pessimists who lament 

 the loss of the game and seek large ap- 

 propriations in order to secure more re- 

 strictions. 



MORE GAME IN MINNESOTA. 



No good reason can be assigned why 

 Minnesota, the land of sky-tinted waters, 

 with its thousands of lakes and ponds 

 which reflect the image of the sky, should 

 not have wild fowl, grouse, quail and 

 other game birds and venison cheap and 

 plentiful in the markets during six 

 months every year. There is an abund- 

 ance of land and water suitable to the 

 game which was abundant and if a very 

 small part of the vast area of the State 

 can be utilized to profitably produce the 

 desirable food the State game depart- 

 ment can be made of great economic im- 

 portance, the people can have plenty 

 of game to eat at moderate prices and 

 the sportsmen of all classes will be tre- 

 mendously benefited as they have been 

 in other States which have enacted game 

 breeders' laws and which are already be- 

 ginning to have game for sale in their 

 markets. 



There is no reason why the sportsmen 

 should continually face an impending 

 prohibition of sport. They should get 

 busy and go in for "more game and 

 fewer game laws." 



We refer especially to Minnesota be- 

 cause it appears just now there is a 

 movement in that State for the profitable 

 production of game. The other States 



