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THE GAME BREEDER 



•owners will consent to have herds of 

 buffalo introduced as sporting animals 

 for the general public. We think the 

 new North Dakota Association will do 

 well to drop the, "Where are the buffalo" 

 business and the buffalo skull device and 

 to get down to practical business. The, 

 "Where are the buffalo" people are ger- 

 ting scarce in the Eastern States. 



Restrictions and Production. 



We would advise the new association 

 to go slow on restrictions and to spend 

 their money and energy on game produc- 

 tion. Each local organization should have 

 its game farm or "shoot" for all the 

 members. A good noisy refuge where 

 thousands of birds are killed every sea- 

 son will be found far more interesting 

 than a quiet sanctuary which after all is 

 only another posted farm. There are, 

 no doubt, enough posted farms in North 

 Dakota to answer as refuges. Remember 

 that one restriction will be followed by 

 another; confirmed mischief makers 

 surely will endeavor to pass them off on 

 the association and to induce it to favor 

 them. 



In some of the states close shooting 

 was prohibited to give the doves a 

 chance. Later the close dove season be- 

 came permanent. Next came the short 

 closed seasons for quail, renewed from 

 time to time. 



Stop the use of one kind of gun and 

 the mischief maker will soon propose 

 stopping the use of another kind; the 

 excuse will be that the birds are still 

 vanishing. As a matter of fact it makes 

 very little difference what kind of guns 

 are used provided there are enough of 

 them and provided the natural foods and 

 .covers of the birds are destroyed and 

 the natural enemies be un-controlled. 

 , We have shot big bags of grouse in 

 North .Dakota, with double guns and 

 pump guns, but we never expect to see 

 a grouse on vast areas where the cover 

 is plowed under and the birds are left 

 to stand on' bare mud during a long 

 season, and, later, in emerald fields of 

 growing wheat, where every hawk and 

 every "varmint" easily can discover and 

 take them. There will be no grouse on 



most of the land in North Dakota until 

 some natural covers and foods are re- 

 stored and made permanent. This easily 

 can be accomplished provided the state 

 and national sportsmen's associations 

 will look after such matters and the ex- 

 pense can be covered by the sale of a 

 few birds alive or dead. Dead birds 

 make the people smack their lips and 

 say, "field sports are all right." The 

 game market has saved sport in other 

 countries. 



A Choice. 



The sportsmen of North Dakota can 

 take their choice. They can spend a lot 

 of money every year getting more game 

 laws and they will, no doubt, bag what 

 they go after, or they can put their 

 money in "more game" and they will 

 be surprised at the excellent shooting 

 during long open seasons. 



The dues for an association which goes 

 in for game should be a little larger than 

 those of the association which simply 

 wants more laws, but the members of 

 the game association will get some ex- 

 cellent meat in exchange for their dues 

 and there will be no danger of laws pro- 

 hibiting the use of dogs. 



Bills that Failed in Minnesota. 



Important and desirable bills which 

 failed to reach final passage were the 

 game breeders' bill, authorizing raising 

 of game by private individuals, and a oill 

 to provide for commercial fishing in 

 Red Lake. A provision to permit mak- 

 ing two express shipments of fish by 

 licensed non-resident anglers. Represen- 

 tative Frye's frog conservation bill, and 

 a bill to extend commercial fishing to 

 the lower part of the Minnesota river, 

 were not reached for final passage. 



One Effect of Protection. 



Often we have pointed out that those J 

 interested in game protection might be- " 

 fore long get more protection than they 

 wanted. The writer is somewhat re- 

 sponsible for giving the game protection 

 idea a good start in Ohio. Many years 

 ago, when the wild turkeys occurred in 

 Ohio, we put this food bird on the song 



