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good nests are especially prepared for 

 them. Some wide shelters might also be 

 provided for the young birds, and if they 

 be made attractive some old birds would, 

 no doubt, lead their young in out of the 

 wet. It would be iriteresting to learn if 

 quail will lay their eggs to nest eggs or 

 white marbles as one of our California 

 members says his quail do in enclosures. 

 If the same food suitable for young 



quail be placed near or under the shelter 

 referred to this might save many birds in 

 a bad season. 



A good beat keeper can attend to these 

 matters without much expense, but it 

 must be worth while to employ him. 

 This will not be done in States which 

 have close seasons for terms of years 

 or which prevent quail breeding. 



NOTES FROM THE STATE GAME DEPARTMENTS. 



In the October issue of The Game 

 Breeder will be published abstracts of 

 laws regulating game breeding in the 

 various States. These abstracts are 

 based on reports made to The Game 

 Breeder by the State game officers, many 

 of whom are sincerely interested in re- 

 storing the game to our markets and in 

 making their departments of great eco- 

 nomic importance to all of the people. 



Some game officers write that their 

 laws are not yet as liberal as they should 

 be; others frankly admit that the legis- 

 lation in their States is not up to mod- 

 ern requirements and that they realize 

 ihey are far behind the times. 



The total area of the States where it 

 is no longer a criminal performance to 

 produce game food for sport and for the 

 markets is now larger than the combined 

 areas of the three foreign countries 

 which have the most cheap game on sale 

 during long open seasons, and we fully 

 believe with the aid of the patriotic State 

 game officers who are quite up to date 

 in their ideas of what should be done, it 

 will be an easy matter to make America 

 the biggest game producing country in 

 the world within two years. 



Very little land will be required to ac- 

 complish this result and since most of 

 it is now posted against all shooting the 

 results of the restoration of game and 

 field sports will be highly beneficial to 

 those who enjoy shooting. 



Many State game officers are encour- 

 aging the greater production of game 

 fish also and in some States trout and 



other fish are becoming plentiful in the 

 markets. As the State departments be- 

 come of more economic importance we 

 believe the officers should receive larger 

 salaries and that the clerical aijd warden 

 force also should be increased and better 

 paid. 



It will remain important always to 

 regulate the shooting and to protect the 

 game on public waters, marshes and in 

 forests and unposted fields, and we have 

 observed where game is bred abundantly 

 on private farms it tends to keep it abun- 

 dant on the vast areas where there 

 should be no possible objection to public 

 shooting. 



We are glad to observe that most of 

 the State officers are very friendly to 

 The Game Breeder and many are mem- 

 bers of the Game Conservation Society 

 and undoubtedly believe as we do that 

 game abundance on the occupied farms 

 and later in the markets, where all of 

 the people can have it at moderate prices, 

 will tend to put an end to the opposi- 

 tion to field sports which has been 

 strong enough in some States to put an 

 end t6 sport for terms of years or for- 

 ever. 



There is plenty of room for all kinds 

 of shooting in America and when the 

 traveler looks out of the car windoA 

 and views the vast areas suitable fol 

 upland game which are uninhabited 

 either by people or game and the thou| 

 sands of ponds which should contaii 

 wild fowl but have none, he must bi 

 impressed with the fact that if syndicatel 



