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THE GAME BREEDER 



bird class. The law now provides that 

 the land owner can protect them if he 

 so desires." 



The Quail and the Farmer. 



Iowa now has a good game breeders' 

 law permitting the profitable breeding of 

 quail and other game. It is , an easy 

 matter for those who wish to do so to 

 have an abundance of quail for sport or 

 for profit. The quail under this law add 

 materially to the value of any farm when 

 they are properly looked after. The 

 farmer who will breed quail in protected 

 fields will find the birds not only useful 

 but valuable. There are a number of 

 shooting clubs in Iowa which have quail. 

 To prohibit quail shooting and quail 

 breeding for profit will decrease the value 

 of the farms since a farm where a valu- 

 able food crop cannot be produced is 

 iiot worth as much as one where it is 

 legal to have the birds to eat, to shoot 

 and to sell. It is pure mischief making 

 to enact laws making it not worth while 

 to look after such valuable food birds. 

 They require some attention, but a very 

 little care and feeding, if proper covers 

 are planted, will keep the birds plentiful 

 although thousands be shot and eaten 

 every season. The farmers of Iowa 

 should insist upon their right to produce 

 quail. Those who do so will have a 

 valuable food for themselves and for 

 others. The shooting clubs which have 

 quail should insist on their right to pro- 

 duce and shoot the most desirable food 

 bird. 



Sport has nothing to gain by laws 

 prohibiting quail shooting and the farm- 

 ers in many states now derive a good in- 

 come from quail and should not be pre- 

 vented from so doing. Recently the quail 

 clubs on Long Island put an end to the 

 nonsense of those who do not seem to 

 know that game easily is made plentiful 

 when it pays to do so and that laws 

 preventing a food producing industry are 

 worse than nonsensical. 



The Game Conservation Society gives 

 prizes of live quail to those who write 

 the best stories about game breeding. 

 One of these prizes went to Iowa last 

 year. Should the owner of the birds who 



will breed them for profit be arrested 

 and fined for such industry ? Nonsense ! 

 Nonsense ! Nonsense ! 



Hundreds of thousands of dollars were 

 sent abroad every year (until the war 

 ended the industry), to foreign game 

 farmers. About $100,000 worth of quail 

 were imported from Mexico by members 

 of the Game Conservation Society last 

 year. They would prefer to send the 

 money to American farmers. 



The Society will send no quail as 

 prizes to states where it is a crime to 

 produce the desirable food profitably. 



Something for Sentimentalists and 

 Fanatics. 



The Iowa warden says, "There are a 

 few who still advocate the indefinite 

 protection of the quail. This agitation 

 does not come so much from people who 

 have personally investigated the ques- 

 tion as it does from those who are still 

 willing to quote some sentimentalists or 

 fanatics who have allowed their preju- 

 dice to carry their statements so far be- 

 yond reasonable facts that no person 

 who would give the subject serious 

 thought would care to be quoted as up- 

 holding such unreasonable statements." 



You are quite right, Warden. No one J 

 but a D fool would prevent the pro- 

 duction of quail. 



Our Feathered Game in Idaho. 



A writer of Twin Falls, Idaho, in 



Forest and Stream gives the following 



account of upland shooting in Southern 



Idaho : 



"Hunting in Southern Idaho is confined 

 mostly to feathered game. There are usually 

 plenty of sage hens in the vast sage brush 

 lands. The hard winter has greatly lessened 

 their numbers, however, and unless something 

 happens contrary to expectations now, sage 

 hens will not be overly plentiful. There is no 



OPEN SEASON. 



"Pheasants are here in great numbers but 

 NO SHOOTING IS ALLOWED HOW in Twin Falls 

 County. There is no open season for quail 

 in Idaho this year. These are the main birds 

 here in Twin Falls County." 



The writer of the foregoing, rosy ac- 

 count of the upland shooting possibili- 

 ties in Idaho simply seems to report the 



