THE GAME BREEDER 



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WOODCOCK. 



We have no doubt many of our read- 

 ers will agree with us that the woodcock 

 often disappear from places where their 

 covers are drained and destroyed. They 

 lemain and breed nicely in places where 

 it pays to preserve the covers and where 

 they are kept quiet and safe because 

 other game is bred in the adjacent fields. 

 We have observed woodcock breeding 

 quite near New York beside a pond used 

 for wild ducks and we are told they are 

 fairly plentiful on a number of places 

 where they would vanish if the covers 

 should be drained. 



To prohibit woodcock shooting with- 

 out excepting those who look after their 

 woodcock would be as bad as prohibit- 

 ing turkey or quail shooting without ex- 

 cepting those who look after their game. 

 When we decide to consider game as a 

 desirable food supply and keep our mar- 

 kets full of it, the woodcock will be 

 saved with the other food products. The 

 Biological Survey long has had an ex- 

 cellent opportunity to urge the people to 

 preserve the game in a practical manner 

 so that the people can have plenty to eat, 

 We hope the present inquiry about the 

 woodcock is not preliminary to some 

 more fool legislation similar to that 

 which never has produced any game 

 for the markets and which for very good 

 scientific reasons never can be expected 

 to produce any game for the markets or 

 even to preserve the species as population 

 increases. 



Woodcock have many natural enemies. 

 These should be controlled if we wish 

 to eat the woodcock now eaten by var- 

 mints. There is not enough for us and 

 them. A little additional destructive 

 shooting for example is too much after 

 vermin has freely dined. Hence the 

 necessity for practical protection which 

 will not be undertaken if shooting be 

 prohibited. Darwin was right when he 

 intimated that shooting caused the abun- 

 dance of game in England. 

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The Game Breeder now goes to hun- 

 dreds of game shooting clubs — to all 

 there are in America, we believe — where 

 it is read by thousands of practical game 

 preservers. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A Letter from the Dean of American 

 Sportsmen. 



Editor Game Breeder. 



I have read today your Game Breeder 

 for June. It is a fine number. 



Charles Hallock, 



Washington, D. C. 



Good "Work. 



[The good work of The Game Conservation 

 Society has been recognized in many countries 

 outside of the United States and Canada. Ad- 

 vertisements in The Game Breeder have sold 

 birds in the Sandwich Islands. Recently we 

 have had inquiries from Cuba, South America 

 and two from Russia. The following request 

 is from Kharkow, Russia. We print, also, our 

 reply which, no doubt, will interest our read- 

 ers. — Editor.] 



To the Secretary of The Game Conser- 

 vation Society. 



New York City, U. S. A. 

 Kharhow 211 III (31iv) 1917. 

 Monsieur, je vous prie beaucoup de 

 m'envoger des materioux concernant la 

 protection des Animeiux, des Oiseaux en 

 Amerique. Je vous en remerierdi, 

 parce que cette question m'interesse 

 beaucoup. Mon adresse : Boris Zakharofif, 

 56, Rue Kontorskaia, Kharkow, Russie. 

 Avec consideration distinguee. 



B. Zakharoff. 



THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY, 

 INCORPORATED. 



The Largest Association of Game 

 Breeders in the World. 



150 Nassau Street, New York City. 

 New York, le ISieme juien 1917. 

 Mr. Boris Zakharoff, 



56 Rue Kontorskaia, 

 Kharkow, Russie. 

 Monsieur, 



La Societe pour la Conservation du 

 Gibier encourage I'elevage du gibier et 

 des poissons aux Etats Unis de I'Ameri- 

 que et de Canada. Nous nous permet- 

 tons de vous envoyer notre publication : 

 "The Game Breeder." Nous avons aussi 

 les livres suivants, ecrits par notre 

 editeur : 



"Notre Gibier Plumeaux," "Notre 

 Gibier Grand," "Notre Menu Gibier et 

 Palmipede." En outre nous vandons: 

 "La Propagation de Menu Gibier" par 



