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THE GAME BREEDER 



T!?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by D WIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK. AUGUST, 1917. 



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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. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotio, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



FOOD PRODUCING PATRIOTIC. 



We have been consulted recently about 

 the formation of several big game pre- 

 serves, two of which it is planned to 

 make bigger food producers than any 

 now on the map. Those who proposed 

 to start these preserves have hesitated, 

 thinking that perhaps it was not wise to 

 undertake sport on a large scale just at 

 this time when the country is at war. 



While there might be some question as 

 to the propriety of those suitable for war 

 duty going in for sport on a large scale 

 we have suggested another way of look- 

 ing at the matter. We have proposed 

 that those who, unfortunately, are 

 rejected for military duty, as the 

 writer was, might well start some big 

 food-producing plants; that an abun- 

 dance of food created by those who can 

 afford to engage in the new industry is 

 highly desirable just now. The harvest- 

 ing of the crop, although it is quite 

 sporty, should be considered a necessary 

 incident to the important industry. Al- 

 though the food, undoubtedly, will com- 

 mand high prices, the argument that 'some 

 cannot afford to buy it amounts to noth- 

 ing since those who prefer game and can 

 afford to eat it will do so, leaving much 

 meat for those who can afford beef and 

 mutton, or who prefer to eat tame meat. 



All of the young men from the ofifice 

 of The Game Breeder are serving in the 

 army and navy, , as many other able 

 young men are, and as many more soon 



will be serving. There are plenty of 

 people, however, who are not eligible for 

 service. We were turned down abso- 

 lutely as too old and we propose to pro- 

 duce a lot of food. Others who are not 

 permitted to enlist can engage in no bet- 

 ter business just now than in the new 

 food producing industry. Let the good 

 work go on. It is as patriotic to pro- 

 duce game food as it is to produce any~ 

 other kind of food. There is no better 

 food for the people than game. Soon it 

 can be made cheap. 



We certainly have plenty of unused 

 and gameless land. 



FARMS AND LAWS. 



Most of the states now permit farmers, 

 to shoot deer, rabbits and other protected 

 game when they are found injurious to. 

 crops. It becomes more and more evi- 

 dent, as time passes, that laws suitable A 

 for one farm are not desirable for an- * 

 other, and many of the laws are highly 

 detrimental to game farming; a most im- 

 portant food producing industry. Hence 

 we say, keep the game laws off of the; 

 farms where game is being made abun- 

 dant. Most capable state game ofificers- M 

 say amen to this, after observing the 

 desolation of the fields and ponds in gen- 

 eral and the swarming game on the game 

 farms. The truth of the matter is, a first- 

 class game officer is not opposed to shoot- 

 ing and deplores the idea of putting the 

 tuneful quail and the drumming grouse 

 on the song bird list. 



NATURE'S BALANCE. 



Nature, we all know, maintains a deli- 

 cate balance. Easily it may be upset in. 

 the wrong direction and disaster results, 

 as surely as the night follows the day. 

 Many plants produce an abundance of 

 seeds on a single stalk. In a state of na- 

 ture many of these seeds are eaten, many 

 are destroyed in various ways and a few 

 take root and become the plants for an- 

 other season. If all of the seeds on a. 

 single stalk of wild wheat fell to the 

 ground and became new plants the 

 ground would not support them. 



Darwin, in one of his simpler experi- 



