T^^ Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July g, tqis, at the Post Office, New York City, 



New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME XI 



JUNE, I9J7 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 3 



The North Dakota State Sportmen's 

 Association. 



The prospectus of the North Dakota 

 Sportsmens' Association, "now incorpor- 

 ating," has been received. The ofificers 

 of the preliminary organization are C. 

 H. Parker, president; Thos. Forde, 

 treasurer; Dr. J. R. Pence, secretary; 

 Hon. E. B. McCutcheon, former chief 

 game warden, will act as preliminary 

 organizer. 



A Warning. 



The prospectus contains the following 

 timely warning addressed to the sports- 

 men : 



Do you realize you narrowly escaped a close 

 season on native birds ; that a bill nearly 

 passed preventing the use of dogs ; that Sun- 

 day shooting was nearly eliminated ; that cer- 

 tain kinds of guns and the use of automobiles, 

 for hunting, were nearly barred? Do you 

 realize that unless we wake up, these things 

 will be slipped over next session? Can you 

 not see that we have been killers not breeders 

 of birds? 



We wish to warn the new association 

 that if they go in for more game laws 

 every season they will surely get what 

 they go after, and that they may expect 

 to acquire not only the restrictions re- 

 ferred to in the warning but also the 

 prohibition of sport. 



History Repeats Itself. 



Some serious minded people may 

 imagine that shortening the season, limit- 

 ing the bag, and the many other re- 

 strictions, will produce "more game" 

 but the evidence is cumulative in other 

 states that good shooting has not been 

 produced in this manner. As the num- 

 ber of guns increases the bag limit will 



be reduced from twenty to ten, from ten 

 to five, from five to three, and the next 

 step will be a close season for five years. 

 This usually is found attractive to 

 farmers and easily it can be renewed for 

 another term. Meantime all the good 

 setters and pointers, owned by sports- 

 men die a natural death, and many a 

 man in middle life has passed to the 

 happy hunting grounds waiting for the 

 quail season to be opened up again. 



"Remember the Buffalo and Save the 

 Grouse" 



This slogan of the North Dakota As- 

 scoiation with an absurd cut of a buffalo 

 skull suggests that a lot of small lawyers, 

 as usual, may be employed yearly to re- 

 cite little pieces to the legislative com- 

 mittees beginning, "Where are the buf- 

 falo, where are the wild pigeons ?" etc. 

 We have heard this oratory for nearly 

 two score years and we have seen. the 

 game vanish as if it was frightened by 

 the noise. 



The buffalo were saved by a man who 

 decided they were passing and that he 

 would save a few. He soon had a big 

 herd and offered them for sale. No 

 one in the United States wanted them 

 but he sold to Canada and realized about 

 $200,000, or some other good sum. The 

 story appeared in The Game Breeder. If 

 any one wants any buffalo we can fur- 

 nish a few car load lots at reasonable 

 prices and if proi^erly looked after they 

 will multiply more rapidly than the Al- 

 derman thought the gondolas would in a 

 city park if a male and a female gondola 

 be purchased. We doubt if there are 

 many farms in America where the 



