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THE GAME BREEDER 



Bob whites in New York City. 



The quail in the upper part of New 

 York City and in Van Cortland Park 

 seem to be thriving. We heard a num- 

 ber of cock birds whistling in fields ad- 

 jacent to Jeromfe Avenue^ Sunday, June 

 16th. 



Elephant Hunting. 



^ Elephant hunting is said to be good in 

 the hill country west of Springfield, 

 Mass. The big game was furnished by a 

 circus from which five elephants es- 

 caped. Four elephants have been taken 

 recently, "otherwise than by shooting," 

 which should delight those who believe 

 in restricting field sports. The hunt for 

 the extra elephant was reported as still 

 active. 



Another Society. 



Mr. Morgan Wing, Mr. R. A. Chiles, 

 Mr. E. A. Quarles and a few other game 

 breeders have formed a new society to 

 promote the interests of commercial 

 game breeders; to protect purchasers 

 from exploitation; to disseminate infor- 

 mation useful to members. 



The Game Conservation Society long 

 has looked after the interests of com- 

 mercial breeders and also it has at all 

 times, had the sportsmen's interests in 

 mind. Our activties are extended to the 

 creation of shooting clubs and the crea- 

 tion of many new customers for the 

 commercial breeders. 



Competition is the life of trade and we 

 welcome the new society and wish it all 

 the good luck possible. Since all of the 

 members of its board of directors are 

 members of the Game Conservation 

 Society all are readers of The Game 

 Breeder and advertise in it when they 

 have anything to sell, the two associa- 

 tions should think and act much alike, in 

 fact, in perfect harmony. The dues of 

 the new society are $25.00 per annum. 



Subscribe to The Game Breeder, $1.00 



a year. 



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Now is the time to advertise Birds 

 and Deer. 



Pheasants Increasing in Colorado. 



From Live News Notes, The Remington 

 Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. 



According to W. J. Morrill, Colorado State 

 Forester, the Chinese Ring Necked Pheasants 

 liberated a few years ago by public-spirited 

 Coloradans, are becoming very plentiful in the 

 agricultural district around Denver, north to 

 the Wyoming state line and extending east- 

 ward from thefoothills to a distance of 50 or 

 more miles. Recently, Mr. Morrill rode in an 

 automobile from Fort Collins to Greeley, about 

 30 miles ; while no count was made, probably 

 not less than 100 of these beautiful birds were 

 observed in the fields close to the road. They 

 are so indifferent to passers-by that they will 

 barely walk out of the road when an automo- 

 bile approaches. 



One pair of birds evidently make their home 

 on the campus of the Colorado Agricultural 

 College, on the outskirts of Fort Collins. 



Five Years' Protection. 



If absolute protection is continued to be 

 given to these pheasants during the next five 

 years, undoubtedly the area inhabited by them 

 will materially increase to the eastward, and 

 eventually all of the plains region of eastern 

 Colorado will become well stocked with one 

 of the most beautiful and gorgeous species of 

 pheasants the Creator eVer developed. 



Their chief food during the summer is 

 grasshoppers, of which Colorado has an abun- 

 dant crop ; in fact, the grasshopper plagues of 

 forty or more years ago, known as "grasshop- 

 per years," are said to have originated on the 

 plains of eastern Colorado. Possibly the 

 stocking of these plains with pheasants, to- 

 gether with the cultivation of vast areas under 

 non-irrigated farm practice, will be a powerful 

 and even determining factor which will pre- 

 vent a similar occurrence of grasshopper years. 



War Time Food Supply. 



With areas as well stocked with pheasants 

 as some in this vicinity, the time is fast ap- 

 proaching when a little shooting, perhaps, can 

 be permitted during a few days each fall ; al- 

 though at present it would seem from the 

 standpoint of sport much like shooting hens in 

 a barnyard. It is said, however, in Oregon 

 that hunting these birds causes them to be- 

 come wary and shrewd in baffling hunters. 

 The majority of the citizens here, however, 

 are at present contented to see the birds half 

 tame and to forego the pleasure of shooting 

 them, as is shown in the action of the last 

 session of the Legislature, which refused to 

 open a season. If the war should eventually 

 bring about famine conditions, the people in 

 this vicinity have a supply of many hundreds 

 of thousands of pheasants to draw upon. 

 There appears to be no reason why vast areas 

 of the south and southwest could not be as 

 successfully stocked with these pheasants as 

 is this region, and provide fine hunting for 

 everybody. 



