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as when sitting birds are disturbed by 

 sheep or cut out in the mowing grass. 

 And it is ready to take charge of the 

 eggs abandoned by a fowl, or the chipped 

 eggs of a foster mother which shows an 

 inclination to crush the chicks as hatched. 

 Yet it will be long before it ousts the 

 broody barndoor hen from the rearing 

 field. — Owen Jones, in Game Keeper's 

 Notebook. 



Our readers will remember that Mr. 

 Dusette used successfully a mammoth 

 incubator to hatch wild ducks. Mr. 

 Duncan Dunn, one of the most capable 

 gamekeepers in America, has a room full 

 of incubators and has used them suc- 

 cessfully to hatch pheasant eggs. The 

 Long Island Game Breeders' Associa- 

 tion this year hatched both Gambel's and 

 bobwhite quail eggs in an incubator and 

 many broods of quail are now in the 

 gardens in charge of cock bobwhites 

 which were induced to adopt them. This 

 experiment and some others will be de- 

 scribed in an early number of The Game 



Breeder. 



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Field sports tend to keep people in the 

 country and form a sufficient counter- 

 poise to the pleasures of the town. They 

 add to the value of farms and country 

 places and provide an outdoor employ- 

 ment for many people. Game breeding 

 soon will produce excellent food abund- 

 antly. 



Posting of Preserves, Private Parks, 

 and Farms. 



Many States require the owners of 

 farms and country places who wish to 

 escape the roar of the autumn battle 

 (when any rabbits or quail occur) to 

 post notices or signboards warning tres- 

 passers that they must not shoot up the 

 farm or country place, preserve as they 

 say in the older countries, game ranch 

 as they say in the West. We have re- 

 peated calls for information as to what 

 kind of signs and how many are re- 

 quired, the proper spacing, etc. 



In New York the law reads, "§362. 

 Notices or sign-boards not less than one 

 foot square warning all persons against 

 hunting or fishing or trespassing thereon 



for that purpose, shall be conspicuously 

 posted and maintained on a private park 

 not more than forty rods apart close to 

 and along the entire boundary thereof, 

 and there shall be so placed at least one 

 notice or signboard on each side and one 

 at each corner of such park and where 

 an outer boundary runs along or under 

 any waters, the nearest shore or banks 

 within the park shall be deemed the 

 boundary for the purpose of posting such 

 notices or signboards. It shall also be 

 considered due service of notice for 

 trespass upon any person or persons, by 

 serving them personally in the name of 

 the owner or owners of such private 

 park with a written notice containing a 

 brief description of the premises, warn- 

 ing all persons against hunting or fishing 

 or trespassing thereon." 



§364. Protection of private lands 

 not parks. An owner or person having 

 the exclusive right to hunt or fish upon 

 inclosed or cultivated lands, or to take 

 fish in a private pond or stream and 

 desiring to protect the same, shall main- 

 tain notices or signboards of the size, 

 and posted and maintained in the ma. 

 ner described in the preceding section. 



§364 provides that signs shall not be 

 defaced or removed or injured. 



The penalties provided are that vio- 

 lators shall be guilty of a' misdemeanor 

 and shall be liable to exemplary damages 

 in the sum of twenty-five dollars for 

 each offense or trespass to be recovered 

 by the owner of the land or hunting and 

 fishing rights thereon. 



We cannot, of course, print all of the 

 State laws on this subject and probably 

 by the time we printed them many would 

 be changed. Any reader can ascertain 

 just what these and other laws relating 

 to game are in his State by addressing a 

 letter to "State Game Officer," at the 

 State capitol. In some States the officer 

 is called Commissioner, in others Game 

 Warden. "State Game Officer" will 



reach him. 



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One Day Old Chicks. 



Reliable Poultry Journal believes that 

 the action of Hon. J. C. Koons, First 

 Assistant Postmaster General, in admit- 



