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THE'GAME BREEpER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1917. 



TERMS: 

 10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Forei);n Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixott o. Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



Our mail indicates that Cuba niay 

 have some game to sell before long. Why 

 not? 



■Reports of the sale of any commodity 

 at good prices are the best incentive to 

 production. We shall be glad to publish 

 short articles from our members on the 

 cost of production and the prices real- 

 ized. 



growing so rapidly that we may safely 

 predict that North America will become 

 the biggest game producing country in 

 the world in a very few years in spite 

 of all obstacles. This result could now 

 be accomplished in one year with the 

 proper assistance of State and Federal 

 officers who are concerned with the 

 game. 



During two recent trips, one to the 

 South and the other to New England and 

 part of New York State, we were sur- 

 prised at the number of people who own 

 game and are engaged in breeding it for 

 sport and for profit. It is only by ram- ^ 

 bling in out of the way places that one ^ 

 can see what is going on. The large t 

 number of small breeders who have a 

 few hundred game birds soon will be 

 strong enough to insist on more freedom 

 than they now enjoy and we predict that 

 America soon will be as free as any 

 country which has its markets full of 

 cheap game. 



GAME ABUNDANCE. 



Reports coming to our game census 

 indicate clearly that the United States 

 now has more pheasants than any coun- 

 try in the world. There are more wild 

 fowl in the United States than in any 

 other country and it seems strange that 

 wild ducks should have been sold 

 cheaper than common poultry (before 

 the war) in many countries and that 

 only a few species of duck, in very lim- 

 ited numbers and very few pheasants, 

 are seen in the American markets. One 

 reason is the big demand for live birds 

 for propagation and the splendid prices 

 paid for live game. 



No good reason can be assigned why 

 pheasants and wild ducks and, in fact, 

 quail, grouse, wild turkeys and bigger 

 game should not quickly become plenti- 

 ful and cheap in the American markets. 

 All that is needed is some simple amend- 

 ments to the laws and a little encourage- 

 ment on the part of intelligent State 

 game officers. The new industry is 



NEW GAME FARMS AND PRE- 

 SERVES. 



We have been consulted lately about 

 the creation of several big shooting pre- 

 serves and commercial game farms. Two 

 of the last named proposed to rear 5,000 

 birds or more the first season. One of 

 the proposed shooting preserves will rear 

 as many birds and possibly many deer. 



During two short tours to inspect 

 some of the new shooting clubs where 

 game is reared we discovered a number 

 of small game breeders who are rearing 

 a few hundred birds. Upon one occa- 

 sion we saw a large number of mallards 

 and black ducks which flew out of two 

 small ponds, being alarmed by the train. 

 They circled about and before we were 

 out of sight they evidently were settling 

 again to the preserved waters. Inquiry 

 revealed the fact that a number of peo- 

 ple in the vicinity had wild ducks. We 

 secured the names and addresses and will 

 enlist them as members of the Game 

 Conservation Society. 



Upon another occasion, traveling in a 

 car from the railway station to a new 

 game farm which has just started, the 



