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THE GAME BREEDER 



a bad state for the industry and the 

 game commissioners recently decided 

 that they were simply police officers 

 without the right to encourage industry. 



Our Best Guess is Hasenpfeffer. 



The following from Bend, Oregon, is 

 from The World, N. Y. : 



E. D. Prescott of Seattle has been in town, 

 and his mission here was one that holds out 

 possibilities that are staggering, not in the 

 way of increasing the payroll of Bend but in 

 bringing new money into the country. 



Mr. Prescott came here to establish a place 

 of business wherein he may negotiate with the 

 farmers, ranchers or others for the purchase 

 of the common, everyday jackrabbit — the one 

 for whose scalp the State pays a bounty — the 

 jackrabbit that pesters the homesteader and 

 rancher. 



Mr. Prescott proposes to pay 10 cents for 

 the rabbits, but they must be fresh, and in 

 order to make his staying here worth while it 

 will be necessary for him to arrange to buy 

 at least 300 to 400 rabbits daily. He can use 

 more than that if he can get them. His com- 

 pany is now receiving thousands of rabbits 

 from Idaho and other States in the West, and 

 they can use about 12,000 daily. The rabbits 

 are used in the manufacture of a dish that is 

 popular with German and French people. 



Our best guess is that the dish it is 

 proposed to make plentiful is hasen- 

 pfeffer. 



Quail Breeding on Long Island, N. Y. 



There were two hearings before 

 Conservation Commissioner Pratt of 

 New York, who will decide {{ quail 

 shooting and, quail breeding are to be 

 prohibited on Long Island. Those who 

 wish to have the shooting prohibited 

 claim that the quail were not as plentiful 

 last season as they should be on account 

 of losses due to climate. 



The breeders of quail, who are to a 

 large extent responsible for the occur- 

 rence of these birds on the Island, since 

 they have purchased and Hberated thou- 

 sands of quail there, and have, properlv 

 protected them from their natural 

 enemies, claim that an end should not 

 be put to their industry. Some have 

 purchased and liberated birds this sea- 

 son; others have been incHned not to 

 purchase and rear birds this year because 

 of the doubt about their right to con- 

 tinue to shoot and eat the food pro- 

 duced. 



A proper solution of the matter would 

 be to defer any action until the laws can 

 be amended so as to permit profitable 

 quail breeding on the Island and to dis- 

 tinguish the abundant game produced by 

 industry from the wild or state game 

 which vanishes because no one looks 

 after it and provides the proper foods 

 and covers which are necessary for its 

 existence. Many thousands of quail are 

 reared on Long Island in protected 

 fields. We have reared several hundred 

 in a season on one farm from stock 

 birds purchased in another state. 



We can hardly believe just at this 

 time such industry will be prohibited. 



We believe if it is that it may be many 

 years before anyone will again under- 

 take to look after the quail in New York 

 State. We fear that the best sport 

 known to sportsmen may be prohibited 

 forever on the Island as it seems to have 

 been prohibited in other parts of the 

 state. 



The hearings were on April 30, at 

 the Board of Trade and Transportation, 

 New York, and May 7, at the Court 

 House, Riverhead, Long Island, N. Y. 



Good Meat Runs Wild in Duchess Co., 

 N. Y. 



The high cost of living can't be very 

 pressing in the old county of Dutchess, 

 up the river. There is good meat run- 

 ning around wild in that county in the 

 form of jack rabbit, and so superabund- 

 ant that the natives have appealed to 

 Representative Piatt to enlist the services 

 of the Federal Biological Survey. 



Movements of Keepers. 



David Gordon has gone to the Pabst 

 preserve in Wisconsin. J. H. Wise has 

 accepted the position of head keeper of 

 the Will preserve in New York. M. 

 Rogers has gone to the De Ford pre- 

 serve. 



There are several requests for under- 

 keepers from excellent preserves, in- 

 cluding several large clubs. 



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