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THE. GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 EoiTED BY DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JUNE, 1917. 



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10 Cents a Copy— $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Pastage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Hhmtington, President, 



F. R, Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



We hope in the future the Audubons will 

 try and think what their great leader would 

 do if personally present and that they will 

 consider the quail 'better as a "broiler" than 

 as a singer. 



A big economic question is presented just 

 now. Thousands of quail quickly can be pro- 

 duced for food and at a very small expense, 

 provided they be bred wild in protected fields. 

 They surely should be protected from hawks 

 and other natural enemies if we would eat 

 them. 



REMEMBER SWOPE'S SWIPE. 



Although Dr. Swope is an Audubon 

 agent we hardly think the national asso- 

 ciation should be blamed for not except- 

 ing breeders when the shooting of quail 

 was prohibited for all time in Ohio. We 

 are reliably informed that the Audubon 

 Society is in favor of the profitable pro- 

 duction of game foods and we are quite 

 sure they will favor exceptions permit- 

 ting the production of food when swipes 

 such as occurred in Ohio are pulled off. 

 There often are cases where agents ex- 

 ceed their authority and we believe this 

 is one of them. The matter seems to 

 have been taken out of Swope's hands- 

 and rushed through. The law can ■ be 

 amended as soon as the legislature meets 

 and the Game Conservation Society and 

 the Audubon Society can work together 

 to this end. The great Audubon un- 

 doubtedly was right in placing the quail 

 in the food bird list and the way to make 

 the food abundant is, of course, to make 

 it profitable. 



The people of Ohio and throughout 

 the country long will be saying "Remem- 

 ber Swope's swipe," just as the people 

 in Texas said "Remember the Alamo." 

 The swipe has made Swope a national 

 figure, but we do not envy his notoriety. 



Suggested by the Swipe. 



We never felt the need of more 

 money than we did when we learned 

 about Swope's sudden swipe. The Con- 

 servation Society is well organized in 

 many parts of the ~ country where a 

 swipe affecting breeders would be im- 

 possible. If we had a State agent in 

 Ohio with plenty of money, as the Audu- 

 bons have, we could have amended the 

 law so as to permit food production. 

 We must have more money. Large 

 checks should be made to the treasurer. 

 Small bills may be sent safely in the 

 mail at our risk. We guarantee safe 



arrival. 



♦ 



The more we think about the matter 

 the more we become convinced that game 

 breeders, ignorantly guilty of petty mis- 

 demeanors, should not suffer greater 

 penalties than those awarded to mur- 

 derers, burglars, forgers, thieves and. 

 other real criminals. The police of New 

 York seem to take their employment too 

 seriously. 



MORE FOOD. 



The agitation for the production of 

 more food which is country^wide has 

 resulted in many people increasing the 

 size of the areas tilled and even many 

 small gardens have been started in places 

 where there were none last year. 



We pointed out in the May Game 

 Breeder the patriotic duty of all game 

 breeders to push their plants to their 

 fullest capacity and 'we learn with muck 

 satisfaction that some breeders who have 

 many breeding fowls are purchasing 

 eggs and will produce much more game 

 this season than ever before. . 



Many new. bree'ders are starting and 

 'there can be no doubt that this year 

 will be a banner year for game breeding 

 in America. 



Although it is said often that many 

 people can not afford to eat game at 



