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Island wild duck breeders and the Long 

 Island quail breeders who shoot their 

 quail abundantly, but not in cages into 

 which no wild game can enter. 



At a recent hearing before the New 

 York Commissioner cumulative evi- 

 dence was offered to show that the quail 

 breeders not only introduced and re- 

 stored the quail on the farms lised for 

 breeding but also that they protected the 

 game from its natural enemies and kept 

 it. so plentiful that it resulted in good 

 shooting for all comers in places where 

 there would be no quail provided the 



game farms be closed as they surely 

 would be should the law require their 

 owners to roof them over. 



It is not unusual that a little nonsense 

 has been incorporated into the new Penn- 

 sylvania statute. It is the counterpart 

 of the nonsense which appeared the first 

 year in the New York statute which re- 

 quired producing sportsmen to take their 

 game, "otherwise than by shooting." The 

 nonsense vanished quickly after a car- 

 toon appeared in The Game Breeder 

 showing a sportsman taking his wild 

 duck with a hatchet. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



By Our Readers. 



Game Breeding Experiments. 



The Game Conservation Society is con- 

 tinually making experiments with live 

 game. Recently 20 one-day-old pheas- 

 ants were shipped from the Lavanna 

 Game Farm in New Jersey to Riverhead, 

 Long Island, N. Y. The birds were 

 shipped on Monday at 8 a. m. They 

 reached Riverhead (our report says), 

 Thursday at noon. This seems to be an 

 unreasonable delay on the part of some- 

 body. Two of the chicks were dead 

 and two have died since. The rest were 

 pretty weak, but are looking better. 



The express company clearly is liable 

 for the chicks lost in transit, but the mat- 

 ter is too small to make the collection of 

 damages worth while. The package was 

 marked : "Live pheasant chicks" and it 

 should have traveled faster. 



Brook Trout for Japan. 



Of the shipment of 100,000 brook 

 trout eggs sent to the Japanese Govern- 

 ment for the lakes and rivers of Chosen, 

 608 eggs died in transit; the remainder 

 began to hatch two or three days after 

 their receipt, and the young fish are 

 doing well. — Sportsmen's Review. 



More Owls in British Columbia. 



Mr. J. H. Mclllree of Victoria, B: C., 

 in an entertaining letter to -the-''Dcart 



Charles Hallock, says : "Our game birds 

 suffered badly last winter; we had a 

 large influx of great horned owls with 

 quite a few snowy owls and they played 

 havoc with the quail and pheasant, made 

 well nigh a clean sweep in some sections. 

 In consequence a close season for both. 

 "Fishing has been poor so far, salmon 

 are very scarce." 



A New Game Farm. 



A new game farm, purchased by the 

 State of New York, will be maintained 

 by Cornell University. Game breeding 

 experiments on a large scale will be un- 

 dertaken and instruction will be given 

 in scientific game farming. 



There is a big demand for capable 

 game-keepers and practical game farmers 

 in the United States and Canada and The 

 Game Breeder quickly can find places 

 for all who may graduate at the new 

 game school and farm, at excellent 

 wages. It is to be hoped that the breed- 

 ing of quail, grouse and wild turkeys in 

 a wild state in protected fields and woods 

 which are made attractive and safe will 

 be taught. 



We continually get reports of losses of 

 quail and other indigenous game wherl 

 attempts are made to breed these birds 

 in caj)tivity and we have' splendid reC'^ 

 ords from all the places where the birds 



