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THE GAME BREEDER 



suitable for agriculture. Many small 

 ponds and marshy tracts where no wild 

 ducks breed today can be utilized for 

 wild duck breeding and made to yield 

 abundantly when the fowl are made and 

 kept plentiful on such areas either for 

 profit or for sport, as easily they can be. 

 Many of the birds will go out and visit 

 the larger lakes and ponds in the State 

 and the bays and streams which are open 

 to the public, and the shooting for all 

 hands will be much improved. Those 

 who by their industry will produce wild 

 fowl or other game on places where it 

 no longer occurs will perform a great 

 public service and there is abundant evi- 

 dence that the tendency of our legislation 

 is in the direction of encouraging food 

 production. 



The Agricultural Department in addi- 

 tion to its regulations permitting the 

 taking of birds and eggs for propagation 

 should issue bulletins on the methods of 

 game breeding in order that the farmers 

 and sportsmen may know how to keep 



the wild food birds profitably plentiful. 

 The regulations as written have the ef- 

 fect of criminal laws and one of them 

 which provides that the birds must be 

 taken "otherwise than by shooting'' 

 should, of course, be repealed, as it no 

 doubt will be since the shooting is an 

 inducement to production. Country 

 places, shooting clubs and syndicates are 

 the best customers of the game farmers 

 who produce birds and eggs for profit. 

 The regulation appears to be inharmoni- 

 ous with the statute which says in effect 

 that nothing in it shall be construed to 

 prevent the shooting of game on the 

 country places which abroad are called 

 preserves and in some of our Western 

 States now are called game ranches. 



At a recent convention of the State 

 Game Officers of the United States and 

 Canada held in New York, a resolution 

 was adopted, unanimously, providing 

 that all States which had not done so 

 should amend their laws so as to make 

 game farming a legal industry. 



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The Best Use of War Profits. 



By George Frank Lord,, 

 Director of Advertising, du Pont American Industries, Wilmington, Del. 



We advertisers deal in long futures. 

 We are the prophets of those futures. 

 Ours is the duty; ours is the oppor- 

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 world's peoples in the future of this 

 country under peace conditions in order 

 that the curtain shall not rise on anarchy 

 and unreasoning panic, but on calm con- 

 fidence that the world's leaders are pre- 

 pared and have been prepared to meet 

 the problems that will appear on the 

 world's stage at the dawn of peace. 



The setting of that stage will be a 



world smeared and scarred wjth the 



: scourge of war. The bright light of the 



new day, will only serve to show in all 



.ugliness the torn soil, shattered homes 



and buildings and bared bones of the 

 millions that have found the final peace. 

 Who shall lift the minds of that sad- 

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 spond to the heights where strife and 

 separation and sorrow may be forgotten 

 and productive Constructive peace of 

 mind attained? 



Who but we advertisers that have the 

 skill and means to talk to all the world 

 and whose own constructive interests are 

 identical with these humanitarian neces- 

 sities? 



Today the business of America is al- 

 most completely on a war basis. The 

 people of America are warriors on the 



