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April 20th from aviary birds, and, as 

 may well be guessed, they are in splendid 

 plumage long before guns or beaters 

 are ready for them on October 1st. I 

 find it a great advantage to put some 

 long wire runs, the same width as those 

 supphed with the foster mothers, so as 

 to give the birds as much ground to 

 run and fresh air as possible. I see 

 that the keeper's hut is close at the back 

 of the foster mothers, so that the man 

 on duty can see to the lamps in the 



foster mothers at any time. And the 

 new method of fostering surpasses the 

 old, as no coops are required; foxes and 

 other night vermin are powerless where 

 the foster mothers are used, and the 

 only period of night- watching (which 

 the old style of rearing enforced so 

 long) is when the birds are turned out 

 to the coverts, and this is brought down 

 to the lowest possible allowance if, as 

 I before advised, the birds go into an 

 aviary. 



SPORT PRODUCING AND SPORT ALLURING. 



By The Editor. 



If we are right in our opinion that 

 several million game birds will be pro- 

 duced this season and shot and eaten by 

 readers of The Game Breeder next fall 

 it would seem that game shooting soon 

 will compare favorably with trap shoot- 

 ing, both in the number of those en- 

 gaged in the sport and in the number 

 of targets. 



Since probably five or six shots are 

 fired for every bird "dead" in the first 

 named sport, it assumes an importance 

 to those who make and sell guns and 

 ammunition rivalling the "sport alluring." 



Many of the game clubs, nearly all 

 of them, we believe, have traps and 

 trap shooting and we are quite sure the 

 trap shooting often is lively at such 

 places. A club member at a Massachu- 

 setts club said to the writer that he had 

 shot more ammunition at the trap on 

 the day of our visit than he had shot 

 in five or six years. He was getting 

 ready for the bird shooting. Recently 

 at a quail club on Long Island, com- 

 posed largely of farmers, we observed 

 a trap for clay bird shooting and we 

 are convinced that the game shooting 

 everywhere stimulates an interest in trap 

 shooting. At the game club last men- 

 tioned the dues are $5.00 per year. 



We hope it will not be long before 



many of the trap shooting clubs in the 

 rural towns and villages will become 

 game shooting clubs and will have good 

 game shooting during long open seasons, 

 as they can under the game breeders 

 laws permitting them to have game. 



Easily game can be made plentiful on 

 ground where no game now occurs, and 

 if the game is bred wild in protected 

 fields, the expenses can be kept down 

 so that the annual dues need not be 

 large. The sale of some of the game 

 will go a long way toward paying all 

 the club expenses if the place be man- 

 aged properly. 



It should always be remembered that 

 when the target is edible there is an 

 oflfset to the cost of the ammunition and 

 the club expenses. In some cases I 

 have known club men to stop a butcher's 

 bill equal to the amount of the club dues. 



The country is large. There is plenty 

 of room for all those who want good 

 game shooting and The Game Breeder 

 is always willing to give advice to those 

 who contemplate starting new shooting 

 clubs. 



Now that it is fashionable and patriotic 

 to produce food, we hope more people 

 than ever before will get intO' the "sport 

 producing" and that they will have much 

 "sport alluring" on the side. , 



