THE GAME BREEDER 



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world with the magnitude of their princely 

 value. Thy skirt of fleecy cotton is be- 

 spangled by the needles of the long-leaf pine, 

 while thy dainty feet are laved by the soft 

 waters of the opal gulf. From the waving 

 woods and clustering hills of North Ala- 

 bama, resonant with the songs of trilling 

 wild birds, to the sunny shores of Mobile, is 

 a land where if 



"There's peace to be found in the world, 

 Hearts that are humble may hope for it here." 



Which leads us to enquire, and our 

 language is plain: Why, in the name of 

 good sense, don't you send us some game ? 

 The Game Breeder. 



P. S. — Alabama should be shipping 

 hundreds of thousands of dollars worth 

 of game annually to the .American mar- 

 kets now that it is no longer possible to 

 send the money abroad for foreign game. 

 Get busy, add the game crop to the cot- 

 ton and the pine and the poetic expres- 

 sion above can be amended to suit the 

 jingle of the dollars which will be found 

 useful in Alabama as elsewhere. We 

 will promise to send the money if you 

 will furnish the "goods." 



Elephant Hamburger Tough but 

 Filling. , 



Under the above heading The World, 

 N. Y., quotes Miss Marie Brown, an 

 American singer, who recently arrived on 

 a Norwegian liner. She told of eating 

 zoo meat in Leipzig. The lions and 

 tigers were eaten first. Then the elephants 

 were killed for market. 'T ate some of 

 the elephant meat myself," Miss Brown 

 said. "It was not any too palatable, but 

 it was filling. It was so tough it had to 

 be ground up to eat. The monkeys and 

 birds were about the only things left in 

 the zoo." 



American Game. 



The members of The Game Conserva- 

 tion Society are now breeding game so 

 rapidly and abundantly that it will not 

 be necessary to send the animals of our 

 zoo to market. Thousands of acres of 

 land which were gameless are being made 

 to yield abundantly and the number of 

 patriotic citizens who are going into the 



new industry is surprising. In today's 

 mail we have letters from three game 

 farms, sending advertisements, all of 

 which have thousands of game birds to 

 sell. Many thousands of deer, elk and 

 antelope are owned by members of The 

 Game Conservation Society who are 

 breeding these animals, and many buf- 

 faloes, also, are owned by breeders. 

 The society is well equipped to save the 

 New York Zoo and the other American 

 zoos from the fate of the Leipzig and the 

 other German zoos. 



A Complaint. 



We have received an interesting letter 

 from Hon. E. B. McCutcheon, Secretary 

 of the North Dakota State Sportsmen's 

 Association, in which he says our com- 

 ment on the work of the Association 

 seems to be incorrect. 



The matter he refers to was simply 

 intended as a warning for the future 

 and not as a criticism of the. past. We 

 were delighted to read the following in 

 the prospectus and we quoted it in full. 

 We take pleasure in quoting it again : 



"Do you realize you narrowly escaped a. 

 closed season on native birds; that a bill 

 nearly passed preventing the use of dogs ; 

 that Sunday shooting was nearly eliminated; 

 that certain kinds of guns and the use of 

 automobiles for hunting were nearly barred? 

 Do you realize that unless we wake_ up, these 

 things will.be slipped over next session? Can 

 you not see that we have been killers not 

 breeders of birds?" 



It cannot be denied that there is a 

 great danger of the things referred to 

 being, "slipped over next session." Our 

 remarks which Mr. McCutcheon regards 

 as unfriendly were made in the most 

 friendly spirit and were intended as a 

 warning that if the sportsmen simply or- 

 ganized to look after legislation there 

 was a great danger that they might be 

 induced to stand for laws creating closed 

 seasons and preventing the use of certain 

 kinds of guns, etc., regardless of the fact 

 that such closed seasons would be ex- 

 tended from time to time as they have 

 been in other states which have big pro- 

 tective associations. There is great dan- 

 ger that numerous things will be "slipped 

 over." 



