THE GAME BREEDER 



55 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Ewted by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1918. 



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THE BREAKFAST HYPHEN 



The World, discussing the protest 

 of hotelkeepers to the Food Board 

 against classing liver-and-bacon as two 

 separate meat dishes, says : "As well, 

 they would say, separate the pork from 

 the bean, or the cabbage from the corned 

 beef or the buckwheats from the maple 

 syrup. One is the necessary complement 

 of the other. And what nobler tribute 

 could be paid to that excellent dish, 

 whose very existence is now imperilled, 

 than to paraphrase a sentence of Dan- 

 iel Webster? Liver-and-bacon, now and 

 forever, one and inseparable !" 



Distressing as the calamity undoubt- 

 edly is it does not compare in dreadful- 

 ness with the divorcing of the quail from 

 the toast. The liver and the bacon can 

 survive separately until the end of the 

 war but in some States the quail has 

 gone on the song bird list forever and 

 only the toast survives. 



Our readers will be glad to learn that 

 we have brought about a restoration of 

 quail on toast locally on considerable 

 areas and that we will serve two kinds of 

 quail on toast to some of our friends 

 next month when we take them out to 

 lunch. One taste will be sufficient we 

 are sure to make them all quail pro- 

 ducers. 



IMPORTATION OF MEXICAN 

 QUAIL. 



The recommendation of the Hon. J. 

 Quincy Ward, of Kentucky, that quail 

 importations should be permitted from 

 November 15 to April 15 is highly proper. 

 We do not agree, however, to the idea 

 that "no birds should be sent north of the 

 Mason and Dixon line before March 1.'' 

 We have purchased many quail from 

 Mexico and elsewhere in the fall and we 

 have carried them through the winter 

 without loss. We know that birds which 

 have been held in any new locality for a 

 long period will settle down and nest 

 earlier than birds which are delivered at 

 or near the nesting period. We regard 

 March 1 as entirely too late for the quail 

 breeders of Long Island, N. Y., and 

 other northern places to begin receiving 

 their stock. We had many late eggs this 

 season of both Gambel's and Bobwhites 

 because we were late in getting started 

 and we had some losses of young birds 

 because they were hatched so late that 

 they encountered cold and wet weather 

 when quite small. Our losses were sur- 

 prisingly small considering the cold, but 

 we know full well the losses would have 

 been fewer in number and the birds 

 would have been far easier to rear had 

 they been turned into the gardens pre- 

 pared for them in the early summer. 



We prefer to shoot in October, when 

 the weather is fine and it is a pleasure 

 to be out of doors, but late quail are not 

 big enough to shoot in October. All quail 

 breeders know that it is an easy matter 

 to carry quail through the winter in con- 

 finement. . We have had, repeatedly, 

 no losses due to the winter handling of 

 quail in numerous places north of the 

 line referred to. Upon. one occasion we 

 wintered a good lot of quail on the brick 

 pavement of a narrow back yard in a 

 large city without the loss of a single 

 bird. The birds were so strong in the 

 spring that they all flew over a high wall 

 and settled in a neighboring yard where 

 there was more sunlight. 



Those who prefer to purchase stock 

 in the fall should have the right to do 

 so. Any loss due to climate will fall on 

 the purchaser, and we have no hesitation 

 in advising purchasers that there will be 



