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THE GAME BREEDER 



states where the laws provide for them. 

 States which do not permit the trapping 

 of brood stock are behind the times and 

 should wake up. 



Game Profits. 



Since the price of grain and other foods 

 for birds is high and rising it is evident 

 that game will be far mor^ profitable 

 than poultry since it commands better 

 prices. The prices for live game birds, 

 also, are rising and the prices now ob- 

 tainable are sufficient to more than offset 

 the increased price in food. 



It is said that eggs, of common fowl 

 will sell for $1.00 per dozen before long. 

 Granting that they may reach this figure 

 there evidently is more profit in pheasant 

 eggs of the common species at $3.00 per 

 dozen. The eggs of aviary pheasants are 

 much higher. Pheasants do not require 

 as much food as barnyard fowls do. 



Tame turkeys no doubt will be very 

 high in price. Wild turkeys sell readily 

 for $20 and $25 each and if they are 

 reared properly in large enclosures where 

 they can secure an abundance of grass- 

 hoppers, berries, acorns, seeds and other 

 wild foods, they will require comparative- 

 ly little grain ; and the perctange of birds 

 reared will be larger than that on many 

 farms where tame turkeys are reared 

 for the market. There is a big demand 

 for wild turkeys and their eggs. The 

 eggs sell for $12 and $15 per dozen and 

 advertisers in The Game Breeder report 

 they can not fill their orders. 



Wild ducks sell readily for $3.00 per 

 pair and up. Where they are reared be- 

 side marshes and ponds containing much 

 natural food one meal of corn a day is 

 sufficient to hold them even when strong 

 on the wing. The eggs of black ducks 

 and mallards sell for $25 and $30 per 

 hundred. A large wild duck breeder in 

 a recent letter to The Grame Breeder 

 says he sold so many eggs last spring 

 that he did not have enough left to hatch 

 his usual number of ducks. 



The price of beef and iriutton is high 

 and going higher. Venison sold for 

 nearly twice as much as usual last year 

 and the price will no doubt be higher 

 than ever next winter. The owners of 

 deer parks find deer breeding ver.y profit- 

 able. 



The number of women engaged in 

 game breeding is increasing rapidly. All 

 report the new industry as interesting 

 and profitable. 



Production of Leghorns. 



The average production of eggs by 

 hens of all kinds and ages in the United 

 States is 85. Unselected White Leg- 

 horns, however, produce an average of 

 130 eggs for the first year, 120 for the . 

 second, 110 for the third, 85 for the ^ 

 fourth, and fall off about 10 a year up 

 to the eighth. These figures are from a 

 bulletin of the Utah Experiment Station. , _;, 

 If the first year production be low, the 

 second will be high and vice versa, thej 

 total production for three years beingj 

 about the same. 



Good Cheer. 



The Game Breeder: 



You say I sent you too much money| 

 for a subscription to The Game Breeder,; 

 Well, don't let that worry you ; just senc' 

 me the paper as long as the money lastsj 

 and I will send a little too much more.' 

 I guess I will do some advertising anc 

 hire a stenographer. We are producing 

 game birds for hotel use, saving the fin-| 

 est specimens for breeding stock. Wher 

 you travel, look us up ; the latch string 

 is always out. Help yourself to any- 

 thing you find. That's Western style. 

 Bully for The Game Breeder, I say. 



P. A. Brenson. 



Letters like the above are most encourag- 

 ing and cheer the toilers in the office who arej 

 all pulling together to help keep the game 

 laws oflf of the farms which have game in| 

 order that America quickly can become the| 

 biggest game producing country on earth.; 

 We are glad to hear you are supplying hotels. 

 Our Eastern hotels are beginning to use al 

 big lot of American game since The Gamel 

 Conservation Society set the fashion for game] 



