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ing to stand for increased revenues, and 

 more wardens to see that the laws are 

 executed. When the sportsmen become 

 aware, as they have in some States, that 

 a great variety of restrictive laws 

 does not result in an increase of game ; 

 when they become aware that so long as 

 any good shooting is permitted such 

 legislation can not produce good re- 

 sults but that it must result in extermi- 

 nation, they no doubt will decide to 

 go in for fewer laws and for "more 

 game." In many places where the 

 profitable production of game has been 

 encouraged by legislation the sports- 

 men who look after the game shoot big 

 bags during long open seasons and they 

 sell some of the game to help pay ex- 

 penses. The result is that much of the 

 game on the "noisy sanctuaries" departs 

 to restock the surrounding country and 

 the producers being fair minded and lib- 

 eral are glad to see the game shot on 

 unprotected areas, and they are glad to 

 see the laws restricting sport repealed 

 so that the shooting seasons can be long 

 for every one. The shooting on Long 

 Island, quite near New York, is improv- 

 ing because a number of clubs keep up 

 the stock of game. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I promised to let you know how the 

 experiment with duck eggs from the 

 East turned out. 



One lot, shipped here fairly early, 

 hatched fairly well — sixty-five per cent, 

 of the total number. The next lot, two 

 weeks later and not carefully packed, 

 hatched only fifteen per cent. Still later 

 we hatched twenty-five per cent. These 

 eggs were from Connecticut. 



The best results were with an incu- 

 bator, and quail eggs in the machine at 

 the same time made an eighty per cent, 

 hatch. 



A lot of eggs from Wisconsin pro- 

 duced only eight per cent. 



A lot of 300, shipped from New York 

 on June 30th, and all placed in an incu- 

 bator, failed to show life in a single egg. 

 A few quail eggs in the machine for the 



same period all hatched to-day. Do you 

 think I should pay for this lot of eggs? 



My conclusions from the experiment 

 are that if the eggs are shipped from the 

 East while still fresh, and early in the 

 season, with some care on the part of 

 the express company, they can be 

 hatched here and produce good birds. 



I certainly wish to try it another year 

 on a large scale, if I can have any as- 

 surance of obtaining the eggs early, and 

 that they will be sent as fast as gathered 

 instead of being held there a couple of 

 weeks to accumulate a large number. It 

 is a long way to send them and the deal- 

 ers ought to give special consideration 

 to a customer at this distance, instead of 

 leaving him till the last. There is a great 

 field for this business here as the wild 

 ducks have greatly diminished in number. 

 It is the lack of a home-breeding stock 

 which has made the mallard a scarce 

 bird here although it furnished a large 

 part of the shooting ten years ago. 

 Very truly, 

 California. C. H. Shaw. 



The Best. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



The July and August numbers of The 

 Game Breeder came duly to hand. Al- 

 low me to state it is the best magazine 

 of its kind I have ever read, and my 

 hope is that it will reach all the good 

 sportsmen in the country, and that even 

 those who are not sportsmen will read it 

 and become interested and that it will 

 open their eyes to the vanishing game of 

 our country and they will talk the subject 

 up with their neighbors and co-operate 

 to save what is left by propagation and 

 protection. D. H. Selden. 



Richmond, Va. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I have just renewed my subscription 

 to The Game Breeder. 



I have not forgotten that you asked 

 me to write something of my experience 

 with American green-wing teal ducks in 

 captivity. I have a female teal duck in- 

 cubating now on 6 or 7 eggs and barring 

 accidents I shall be successful I think 

 this year. Last year I got fertile eggs 



