THE GAME BREEDER 



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Game Breeder to tell the soldiers how to 

 breed game. The quail and the prairie 

 grouse, the dove and other game birds 

 are said to be beneficial to agriculture 

 and these and many other game birds 

 should be bred on all farms. 



Mr. Roualt, the capable State Game 

 Warden for New Mexico, was among the 

 first of the State officers to favor the 

 idea that game ranches should be profit- 

 able in his State and in a paper on "Game 

 Farming" which he wrote and which was 

 read at a recent meeting of the State 

 Game officers he advocated the granting 

 of land for game farms to soldiers at 

 the end of the war. 



Poison Sumach, Ducks and Quail. 



One of our Connecticut wild duck 

 breeders writes that he was ill for some 

 weeks with a severe form of "swamp- 

 sumach" poisoning contracted while 

 working in the swamp where he keeps 

 his ducks. "I have so far been fairly- 

 successful with the birds. They are all 

 feathered out and in the past few weeks 

 they have been flying at will. They are 

 a nice lot and I am particularly pleased 

 with the ducks obtained from Mr. Du- 

 sette, of Bad Axe. He is a fine fellow 

 and a white man. I have bought both 

 eggs and birds of him and there is no 

 question about the purity of his breed. 



"I am thankful for the information 

 about quail and grouse. There is in my 

 neighborhood another farm and a much 

 larger one than mine. I am trying to get 

 hold of this place, there being two fair 

 sized ponds on it. It would also afford a 

 very good opportunity for breeding quail 

 and grouse, which I should much like to 

 try. 



"I hope to join the Game Breeders' 

 Association soon. I shall be very glad 

 to do so." 



[We suggest that you write to our adver- 

 tisers promptly about the quail or you may not 

 get any. — Editor.] 



large excess of cock bob whites an at- 

 tempt will be made to cross the bob 

 whites with the Gambel's quail and also 

 to see if the last-named quail will act as 

 foster mothers for young bob whites 

 hatched in captivity. 



An attempt will be made to introduce 

 the Gambel quail and the scaled quail on 

 Long Island, and it is believed that if it 

 is possible to introduce and establish 

 these western birds in the eastern states 

 the society can accomplish this work, 

 since it will be done with good numbers 

 of birds. 



The liberation of a few birds in a 

 strange place where vermin is not con- 

 trolled is not a fair test but the libera- 

 tion of many birds in protected fields 

 should prove if these western quail can 

 be made to thrive and multiply in the 

 eastern states. 



Wild turkeys will be hatched in cap- 

 tivity and liberated. The hybrid, mal- 

 lard-dusky duck has been introduced by 

 the transfer of one-day-old birds from 

 Massachusetts and eggs of the hybrid 

 will be hatched on the preserve of the 

 Long Island Game Breeders Association 

 and their speed over the guns will be 

 given a fair test next October. Prairie 

 grouse will be hatched from eggs and an 

 attempt will be made to establish these 

 birds in several places where they long 

 have been extinct. These experiments 

 will be made in the west. 



These and other interesting experi- 

 ments made by using the fund usually 

 expended on the annual game dinner will 

 be reported in The Game Breeder from 

 time to time. If we can make the prairie 

 grouse as plentiful as pheasants are and 

 can get some stock birds into the hands 

 of sporting clubs and commercial breed- 

 ers soon they will become plentiful in 

 many places. We have had some diffi- 

 culty in getting birds and eggs for this 

 experiment but when we set out to do 

 anything we usually do it sooner or later. 



Experimental Work. 



The Game Conservation Society is mak- 

 ing some important experiments in breed- 

 ing quail. Since the Society secured a 



The Game Market. 



Pheasants are selling at $5.50 to $6.00 

 per pair, and it seems likely the prices 

 will advance rapidly, since some of the 

 big "shoots" are buying birds for the fall 



