THE GAME BREEDER 



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but so thin-shelled nothing short of an 

 incubator could hatch them, but this 

 year I solved that problem and my eggs 

 look to have good shells. I will write an 

 article for The Game Breeder in a few 

 weeks and I think I have learned some 

 things about teal, at least, that are not 

 found in any of the books on the breed- 

 ing and rearing of wild ducks. 



A. F. Warren. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I am interested in anything pertaining 

 to bird or wild animal life, and I pre- 

 dict for you great success, both for your 

 paper and the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety. 



Denver, Colo. W. F. Kendric. 



A DEER TROUBLE. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



In reply to your inquiry as to how I 

 keep and feed my deer I will say that I 

 keep them in a four-acre lot of natural 

 timber of several different kinds of 

 trees, such as oak, elm, ash, basswood 

 and box elder, but the trees are large so 

 the deer cannot reach very many of their 

 leaves. And the ground is covered with 

 all kinds of weeds that would grow in 

 natural timber, also wild gooseberries 

 and buck bushes. It seems to me it 

 would be an ideal place for them. They 

 have plenty of salt and fresh water. 



In winter I give them clover hay and 

 cornmeal and bran mixed with a little 

 condition powder that is recommended 

 for horses, cattle and sheep. The lot 

 they run in also contains blue grass, tim- 

 othy and white clover. They show no 

 symptoms of sickness and will eat well 

 until they get so weak that they cannot 

 stand up. The season of the year don't 

 seem to make any difference. 



My deer are the North American 

 white-tailed deer or natives of this part 

 of the country. My idea of the matter 

 is that they get too much blue grass and 

 timothy and would do better in a dry 

 lot the whole year round. 



When I bought these deer they were 

 kept in a small lot that did not contain 

 any green vegetation and they were fed 

 alfalfa hay and bran and meal. They 



were sleek and fat but when I turned 

 them in my lot they just seemed to go 

 downward until I have lost about half 

 of them. 



I also have a herd of buffalo and would 

 like to know if they require salt or not. 

 My buffalo are in very fine condition at 

 present. 



John Reinhart. 



[We believe the trouble must be with the 

 food (possibly with the condition ponder). 

 The fact that the place is overgrown with 

 weeds and gooseberries indicates that the deer 

 do not eat these. If they did they would 

 soon clear the lot. Evidently they can not 

 reach the trees and they certainly would do 

 better in a brush lot full of small trees. Mr. 

 James W. Greggs, a successful Iowa breeder, 

 says "blue grass and timothy are useless." He 

 plants red clover, mustard, rape and seeds of 

 different kinds of weeds and says corn is the 

 principal grain he feeds. A number of deer 

 breeders say that pure running water is highly 

 desirable for deer. Mr. Reinhart's letter has 

 been submitted to a number of successful deer 

 breeders and we hope to print their opinions 

 as to the cause of the trouble. — Editor.] 



[We hope to print the article referred to in 

 our October number. — Editor.] 



What do you know about this? At 

 the Minnesota State Fair we understand 

 $250 will be given in prizes for wool 

 and $900 for dog prizes. — Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



Quite a sporting affair. — Game 

 Breeder. 



• 



Lady (at the telephone) — I want my 

 husband, please. 



Voice from the Exchange — What 

 number, please? 



Lady — He's my third, if you wish to 

 know, you impudent thing. — Australa- 

 sian. 



♦ 



"Why do you think he has a family 

 tree?" 



"Because he's a nut." 



"Is that dog of yours intelligent?" 

 "Yessuh," replied Erastus Pinkley. 

 "He kin do everything but talk, an' 

 sometimes when he's heen out late wif 

 me in de evenin' I's kind o' skeered dat 

 he might take a sudden notion to do 

 dat." — Washington Star. 



