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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^ e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1918. 



TERMS: 



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



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto. Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



THE SOFT PEDAL. 



We are glad to announce that an end 

 to the controversy about the game laws 

 is in sight. We are glad to be able to 

 use the soft pedal in the future and we 

 are sure our readers will be pleased to 

 read more stories about game and fewer 

 stories about how the game laws have 

 been amended so as to keep game breed- 

 ers out of jail. 



Section 12 of the Migratory Bird law 

 is just what we wanted and we under- 

 stand the "otherwise than by shooting" 

 regulation will be repealed. The State 

 game officers, assembled in New York 

 recently, passed a resolution providing 

 that all States which had not done so 

 should enact laws encouraging game 

 breeding. 



In bidding farewell to controversy it 

 seems proper to say a few words about 

 the occasion for certain forms of it. 

 It was not an easy matter to start a 

 trade paper in the interest of an illegal 

 industry. Many predicted failure. We 

 had no idea that the magazine would 

 have any real enemies and it has had 

 none among fair-minded, intelligent 

 people. The number of requests for it, 

 coming from libraries, scientific institu- 

 tions and colleges and from judges, law- 

 yers, doctors, professors and from prom- 

 inent sportsmen and agriculturists indi- 

 cate that the work of the society and its 



bulletin are appreciated by people whose 

 influence for good amounts to something. 



When' the magazine was ' started and 

 the dean of American sportsmen, the 

 late Charles Hallock, wrote a letter 

 praising and 'indorsing its policy, we 

 were a little surprised to learn that the 

 zoo superintendent had broken loose 

 and was running about saying, "Our 

 enemies are publishing a' monthly maga- 

 zine." We wondered for a long time 

 who the other fellow could be since the 

 word "our" seemed to indicate there 

 were two of a kind, which seemed im- 

 possible. It occurred to us that a few 

 playful remarks about the zoo man and 

 his fund ($104,000) might make the 

 wild lifing campaign lively and tend to 

 offset the remarks about "our enemies." 



We were quite sure that the wild lifing 

 director, when he announced his cam- 

 paign of animosity towards the little 

 magazine, would be helpful and not 

 harmful, and we were just wicked 

 enough to speed him up a bit. New- 

 subscribers dropped in to see what the 

 trouble was about and they all became 

 regular readers. The late Mr. Hill, a 

 talented and capable editor who some- 

 times brought Out The Game Breeder 

 when the writer could not do so, cleverly 

 remarked that "those who came to scoff 

 remained to pray." Having been bene- 

 fited, why should we entertain any ani- 

 mosity? We never did. So far as the 

 "enemy" business was concerned if was 

 all one-sided. People sometimes are 

 heard to say they are proud of their ene- 

 mies but we have never had any spare 

 time or any inclination for pride. 



It is the duty of a trade paper to look 

 after the interests of its readers and ad- 

 vertisers and to publish items of news 

 in its field. When the arms and am- 

 munition people donated $25,000 to the 

 Audubon Association, an old, well estab- 

 lished and reputable organization, we 

 approved the gift. We know full well 

 that this association is not opposed to the 

 breeding, shooting and the sale of game. 

 But in all our game farming experience 

 we never heard a pig under a gate squeal 

 louder than the wild lifer did when he 

 heard of the proposed donation. This 



