THE GAME BREEDER 



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•eapng at its annual game dinner. Hotels help 

 to keep the prices up and the business good. — 



Editor. 



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More Ducks Wanted. 



A game breeder on one of the big 

 shoots writes : "An advertisement in The 

 Game Breeder caused me to oversell eggs 

 and I must therefore buy a few hundred 

 young ducks. Where can I get a few 

 hundred young ducks?" 



[Write to our advertisers and tell them 

 The Game Breeder will be much pleased 

 to see you get the ducks. Since we are 

 sure they will be reduced to a food in 

 true sporting style and that no "other- 

 wise than by shooting" goes on your 



ground. — Editor.] 



♦ 



Destructive Quail. 



In a recent letter from New Mexico 

 we are told the quail are now destroying 

 the crops in the writer's neighborhood. 

 "They have raised so many this year 

 they are very destructive." The remedy 

 is plain. Secure a permit from the State 

 game officer; trap and sell a good part 

 of the bird crop, keeping plenty of breed- 

 ing stock for next season. Use part of 

 the profits to pay a scare boy to keep 

 the birds out of the fields at the season 

 when they are destructive. You will 

 soon make more money with quails than 

 with any other crop and it will be easy 

 to protect the fields at certain seasons. 

 There is no State in the Union where 

 game ranches would be more profitable 

 than New Mexico. Remember the coun- 

 try needs meat, and it is your patriotic 

 duty to supply some of it. We can sell 

 hundreds of thousands of quail at ex- 

 cellent prices, $15 a dozen and up. 



New Mexico has cattle ranches and 

 sheep ranches. Why not have the far 

 more profitable game ranches? 



A Successful Year. 



One of our western members writing 

 about the good work of a game keeper 

 says : "He has shown us how to rear 

 game. We have 4,500 pheasants in the 

 field and 200 wild turkeys. The vermin 

 that he has trapped and exterminated is 

 astounding." 



From all over the country, north. 



south, east and west, we have good re- 

 ports - about the abundance of' game 

 where plenty of traps are used and 

 where the number of game enemies con- 

 trolled is large. One of the most im- 

 portant parts of the game preserve equip- 

 ment is plenty of Oneida traps.' They 

 cost very little and it is a good plan to 

 use plenty of them. 



More About Traps. 



It is important to buy the traps early 

 when the place is rented or purchased. 

 We once started a game preserve pur- 

 chasing rolls of wire, posts, coops, hatch- 

 ing boxes and other appliances, but neg- 

 lected to buy the traps. The keeper said 

 he wanted a lot of traps but before we 

 bought them he sent a letter saying, 

 "hurry up the traps, the owls and crows 

 are taking the chickens and eggs." We 

 had a few young fowl and were hatching 

 thousands of game eggs. A few days 

 later we visited the place and were sur- 

 prised at the number of great horned 

 owls and other vermin which had been 

 trapped. Traps and plenty of them will 

 result in the saving of hundreds of eggs 

 and birds and at present prices the sale 

 of a few birds or eggs will pay the cost 

 of a barrel of traps. 



America the Biggest Game Producing 



Country in the World! 



How well this sounds ! How rapidly 

 the time approaches when the statement 

 will be absolutely true. When the object 

 of The Game Breeder was first placed 

 on the cover of the magazine there were 

 doubters. Few remain. 



A number of ministers of the gospel 

 are breeding game and report the indus- 

 try quite interesting. We believe a few 

 popular sermons on the desirability of 

 producing game food would be timely. 



Many doctors and lawyers, who live in 

 the country are going in for game breed- 

 ing as a side line. We are quite inter- 

 ested in observing the letter heads of 

 many new members ot The Game Con-- 

 servation Society which indicate their 

 vocations. 



