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THE GAME BREEDER 



probably, as could be expected, consider- 

 ing the number of big shoots in New 

 York State and the absurd restrictions' 

 preventing clubs and preserve owners in 

 other states from sending their game to 

 the New York market. There will be 

 much more game sold as food next fall 

 than was. sold last season, we feel sure, 

 since the number of breeders has in- 

 creased rapidly and vast numbers of 

 eggs will be sold this spring. 



Wild Duck Foods. 



Vast quantities of wild rice, celery, 

 wapato, sago pond weed and other wild 

 duck foods were sold last season and one 

 of our larger advertisers writes that his 

 orders this season are twice as large 

 as they were last year. The work of 

 planting ponds and marshes with foods 

 for the ducks is interesting and profitable, 

 but the industry is attacked by prevent- 

 ive legislators in Wisconsin as it was 

 not long ago in North Carolina. The 

 law there, we are told, was repealed 

 promptly. 



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Food Prices and Production. 



Since the prices of all foods are ad- 

 vancing and will continue to do so, we 

 strongly urge all of the clubs and pre- 

 serve owners to breed much' more game 

 this season than ever before. Game 

 farmers, clubs and individual preserve 

 owners, who only saved a few hundred 

 stock birds, will do well to purchase a 

 few thousand eggs and to employ addi- 

 tional help for the keepers so they can 

 produce much more game than they did 

 last season. It is not only a pleasure, 

 but it becomes a patriotic duty for those 

 engaged in the game breeding industry 

 to push their plants to their fullest 

 capacity. 



We feel sure that game officers who 

 interfere with breeders will not be pop- 

 ular and that their superiors will curb 

 their activities. 



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Wisconsin Duck Foods. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



There has been introduced recently in 

 the Wisconsin Legislature a bill in both 

 Houses similar to the one which was 

 introduced in North Carolina several 



years ago and repealed two years after- 

 ward. These bills propose to restrict 

 the distribution and gathering of wild 

 celery, duck potato, or wapato and other 

 wild duck foods, which are known to 

 furnish food for game birds in Wis- 

 consin. A copy of the ^ills are en- 

 closed. 



These measures seem very unwise and 

 show no thought on the part of those 

 who introduced them. The wild ducks 

 of this country travel from the far 

 north Hudson Bay region to the Gulf of 

 Mexico and even South America, and 

 the more food we have in every little 

 pond and stream along their entire line 

 of flight, the more game it will be pos- 

 sible for us to have in this country. 



Speaking from my examinations of 

 some of the best ducking places in 

 America, Wisconsin has a greater abund- 

 ance and a greater variety of natural 

 game bird food, especially wild duck 

 foods, than any other state I know of. 

 Such an attitude is a very selfish one 

 for Wisconsin to take, while there are 

 hundreds of tons of good planting ma- 

 terial going to waste within her do- 

 mains. It can result only in harm to 

 allow such a measure to be passed. 

 This measure means less game. More 

 food everywhere throughout the country 

 means "more game." 



The Wisconsin Game Laws are now 

 undergoing a pornplete revision. I am 

 sending you a copy of Bill 46 S. This 

 bill repeals practically all the former 

 game laws and puts the njeasure indi- 

 cated in their place, providing the bill 

 passes. However, I expect there will be 

 a good many changes before our legis- 

 lators get through with it. 



With best wishes, yours for more 

 game and fewer game laws, 



Clyde B. Terrell. 



Expert Opinions. 



State of New York Conservation Com- 

 mission, 

 Albany, N. Y., March 2, 1917. 

 Mr. Clyde B. Terrell, 



Oshkosh, Wis. 

 Dear Mr. Terrell: 



Receipt is acknowledged of your let- 

 ter of Feb. 28th, enclosing copy of the 



