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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 EoiTED BY DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK. JULY, 1917. 



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



Postage 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. HwNTiNGToN, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



QUAIL BREEDING AND SHOOT- 

 ING SAFE ON LONG ISLAND. 



We never for a moment believed that 

 the industry of the many quail breeders 

 on Long Island, N. Y., would be pro- 

 hibited. Under the law, the Game Con- 

 servation Commissioner has the right to 

 proclaim a closed season in any part of 

 the State when it appears that the game 

 is vanishing and that such action will 

 be beneficial. 



The quail on Long Island are there 

 and the shooting remains fairly good for 

 the simple reason that there are many 

 quail clubs and individuals who look 

 after the birds properly, protect them 

 from their natural enemies, and feed 

 them in winter. Thousands of birds 

 have been purchased and liberated and 

 no greater outrage could be conceived 

 than the putting an end to the food pro- 

 ducing industry of the Long Island quail 

 breeders. 



Some of our readers accepted our as- 

 surance that there was no possible 

 danger and purchased and liberated 

 many quail this season in order to offset 

 a partial loss due to climate last year, the 

 weather having been unfavorable during 

 the breeding season. The dealers report- 

 ed, however, that others who intended 

 buying stock birds did not do so, be- 

 cause they feared the birds would only 

 be for foxes, cats and other vermin. 



All sportsmen who enjoy shooting and 

 eating quail will be pleased to learn that 

 quail shooting will remain good quite 



near the great city of New York. The 

 people interested in breeding, and sell- 

 ing and training setters and pointers will 

 be glad to know that quail shooting can 

 be perpetuated, not only on Long Island, 

 but elsewhere throughout the United 

 States when proper methods are applied, 

 as suggested in The Game Breeder. 



The makers of guns and ammunition 

 will be glad to know that the readers of 

 The Game Breeder, who have adopted 

 and put in practice the proper methods 

 of game conservation have set an ex- 

 ample which will be followed, no doubt, 

 throughout the country, and that quail 

 shooting soon will be restored in States 

 which now prohibit it. 



The Game Conservation Commissioner 

 has done exactly right in not prohibiting 

 sport which really is a food producing 

 industry. Those who urged him to put 

 an end to sport seem to be entirely un- 

 aware of the scientific reasons for the in- 

 crease and decrease of any species of 



game. 



The Long Island decision is import- 

 ant since it will have an excellent effect 

 in aiding the work of the Game Conser- 

 vation Society throughout the country. 

 Many State game officers, who must be || 

 chagrinned to see an end put to sport by 

 prohibitive enactments, will be glad to v 

 see the laws amended so that the people M 

 can have quail, grouse and other game ^ 

 in abundance with the same freedom that 

 pheasant and duck breeders now have 

 these birds. 



We became converted to the game 

 farming idea after an excellent day's 

 shooting on Long Island outside of an 

 inexpensive club ground where quail al- 

 ways are plentiful. We have used Long 

 Island repeatedly as an exhibit when 

 urging the sportsmen in other States 

 not to give up quail shooting, but to 

 form numerous inexpensive quail clubs 

 similar to those which have saved to 

 sport our best game bird, on Long 



Island, N. Y. 



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Every game keeper in America and 

 Canada, we believe, is a member of The 

 Game Conservation Society and reads 

 The Game Breeder. 



