THE GAME BREEDER 



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State." A modern legal absurdity is 

 added to many in the books. 



THE SIBERIAN HARE. 



Our readers will be interested in the 

 Siberian hare matter. It seems to be 

 something like the "Tempest in a Tea 

 Pot." 



The matter had already been referred 

 to our Game Guild, the committee which 

 has charge of all controversies between 

 breeders and purchasers in the United 

 States and Canada. If there was an at- 

 tempt to defraud anybody the Guild 

 soon would make a public report and 

 the Siberian hare advertisements quick- 

 ly would vanish from The Game Breed- 

 er. Those dealing in Siberian hares 

 would not, of course, be permitted to 

 use the mails if it appeared there was 

 any intention to defraud anybody. 



The Guild is fearless and it has dealt 

 swift justice to a number of breeders in- 

 cluding one who seemed to think it all 

 right to ship tame goose eggs, a little 

 antiquated, to those who ordered and 

 paid for wild turkey eggs. But the Guild 

 is also fair. Without wishing to influ- 

 ence in any way the action of the com- 

 mittee we may say that the mere calling 

 of an animal Siberian or using "Siberi- 

 an" as a trade name does not in our 

 opinion indicate any intention to de- 

 ceive. The Arctic freezer is not neces- 

 sarily-manufactured within the Arctic 

 circle. The Australian diamond often 

 is not from Australia. As Mr. Mc- 

 Gillivray well says, the Belgian hare is 

 a rabbit just as the Siberian hare is a 

 rabbit, and he might have added that 

 our conamon little cottontail which lies 

 out on a farm and does not burrow is 

 a small hare and not a rabbit. So we 

 repeat: "What's in a name?" We 

 have no true partridges in America ; ex- 

 cepting those recently imported, but the 

 ruffed-grouse of New England long has 

 posed as "the partridge." 



We are glad to have the origin of the 

 Siberian hare made known. We are of 

 the opinion that many breeders and in 

 fact most of our breeders long have 

 known that both the Belgian and the Si- 



berian hares are true rabbits. We doubt 

 if so many of them were aware that the 

 cottontail has the habits of a hare and 

 well may be considered a small hare. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Game Conservation Soc, Inc. : 



Gentlemen, — I am enclosing $1.00 for 

 subscription for coming year. Keep up 

 the good work and do something for the 

 quail and pheasant breeders of Califor- 

 nia. 



Yours for more game, 



Joseph Ketchum. 

 California. 



[We have been doing all we dan to help the 

 California breeders, and we are pleased to ob- 

 serve their number is increasing. We get new 

 members in your State every week. You can 

 help us get more. You will soon be strong 

 enough to become exempt from "fool laws," 

 which have prevented production. We invite 

 your attention to Miss Rahlman's good letter 

 in this issue. Soon her pheasantry will be able 

 to send you quail and eggs without fear of 

 the police. — Editor.] 



The Game Conservation Society : 

 The book, "Our Wild Fowl and 



Waders," received. I think it a very 



fine work on the subject. 



Fred B. Jones. 

 Massachusetts. , 



E. A. QUARLES, 



Secretary, The Game Protective Associa- 

 tion. 

 Dear Mr. Quarles : 



The pass to- the dinner of the Protective 

 Society which you assured me had been sent 

 the day before the dinner, I find was duly re- 

 ceived at the office of The Game Breeder. I 

 write to thank you for sending it and to ex- 

 press my sincere regret at not being able to 

 attend and see the pictures. An engagement 

 for another dinner took me out of town that 

 evening, and I could not have attended even 

 if I had received the invitation. So many peo- 

 ple have asked me why I did not attend that 

 I shall send a copy of this note to the maga- 

 zine in order that all may know I am heartily 

 in sympathy with the conferring and the din- 

 ing, and I hope to be with you next time. 

 You are doing good work. 



Very truly yours, 



D. W. Huntington. 



More traps, more game, fewer game 

 enemies. 



