T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XIV 



DECEMBER, 19 J 8 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 3 



After the War. 



Now that the war is ended we 

 should all go in for "more game and 

 fewer game laws." 



Many of the vast areas where no game 

 occurs or which are posted by the farm- 

 ers against all shooting can be made to 

 yield game abundantly and profitably for 

 pleasure or for profit. 



Often we have pointed out that it will 

 Lake very little of the ground where no 

 game occurs or where shooting is pro- 

 hibited to make North America the big- 

 gest game producing country in the 

 world. Often we have said that it is 

 desirable to have more people living in 

 the country and that field sports can be 

 made a great inducement to bring about 

 the desired result. . During the coming 

 year we shall publish many pictures of 

 men, women and children who are living 

 in the country as the direct result of the 

 activity of the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety. 



The More Game and Fewer Game 

 Laws Victory. 



The movement for more game and 

 fewer game laws has been a pronounced 

 success. The war had much to do with 

 the victory which we now proclaim. At- 

 tention was called to the shortage of 

 game _ in the country as a food supply 

 and this made the addition of section 12 

 to the Migratory Bird Law, protecting 

 game breeders "in order to increase our 

 food supply" an easy matter. 



In nearly all of the States game breed- 

 ing is a legal industry. The sportsmen 

 who prefer more game to more game 

 laws can have just what they want. They 

 can shoot during long open seasons ; they 



can fix their own bag limits ; they can 

 sell some of the game they produce in 

 order to help pay expenses and keep the 

 cost of the shooting down. All that is 

 necessary to have good shooting on 

 places where there is none to-day is to 

 deal fairly with the farmers who often 

 are willing to permit game breeding and 

 shooting for an annual rental of a few 

 cents per acre. The State game depart- 

 ments whicli properly regulate the sale 

 of the game produced will become of 

 great economic importance to all of the 

 people. They can be made popular not 

 only with the farmers and sportsmen but 

 also with all of the people who approve 

 of food production and who like to eat 

 game. Since the production of game 

 abundantly on some of the farms and 

 about the ponds where no ducks occur 

 to-day will be followed by an abundance 

 of game on public lands and waters good 

 shooting may be predicted for every gun 

 in America during long open seasons. 



Numerous game shooting clubs have 

 been started and the number of sports- 

 men who prefer more game to more game 

 laws is increasing rapidly. 



When, shortly before his death, the 

 dean of American sportsmen, Charles 

 Hallock, wrote to The Game Breeder 

 congratulating the society for the tri- 

 umph of the movement for more game 

 and fewer game laws we were not quite 

 sure that the victory was decisive; that 

 there might not be a relapse. We were 

 aware that a few game law enthusiasts, 

 with considerable money invested in 

 their industry, still favored the "other- 

 wise than by shooting" clause which ap- 

 peared in a few game breeding enact- 

 ments. We were not quite sure that the 

 danger from an extension of this idea 



