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could be obviated quickly. Section 12 

 of the Migratory Bird Law, however, 

 has given full protection to game breed- 

 ers and sportsmen and when the "other- 

 wise" people got busy they ran squarely 

 against this wise provision of the statute 

 which prevents any interference with 

 game breeders and their sporting custom- 

 ers. This is exactly what section 12 was 

 intended for. We are pleased to observe 

 that it meets the approval of all intel- 

 ligent state game officers who have not 

 altogether favored the running of their 

 departments by a small coterie in New 

 York, who have appeared to profit by 

 preventing food production. Since 

 many State laws permit game breeders 

 to shoot and sell their game and the ten- 

 dency of the courts is to hold that laws 

 enacted in order to save the wild, or 

 State game, should not be applied to 

 game produced by industry or be permit- 

 ted to prevent food production, we feel 

 quite safe in saying: "The victory has 

 been won." All that remains to be done 

 is to work out certain details intended to 

 distinguish the game owned by breeders 

 from the game owned by the State, and 

 to provide for the taking of stock birds 

 for breeding purposes. Proper regula- 

 tions for those who sell the food easily 

 can be made. 



Future Plans. 



We are so sure that the State game 

 departments will become of great eco- 

 nomic importance to all of the people 

 and that they will cease arresting food 

 producers because they have birds or 

 eggs and produce food that we are look- 

 ing forward to a quiet home in the coun- 

 try where we will be in no fear of arrest 

 for profitably producing game on the 

 home grounds. 



We look forward with pleasure to re- 

 tiring from much of the active work in 

 connection with The Game Breeder and 

 to undertaking the outdoor occupation, 

 and we are not afraid to inform the 

 "otherwise" people that our crop will be 

 harvested exclusively by shooting. This 

 we regard as the proper method of re- 

 ducing quail to possession for food pur- 

 poses. The birds will be taken with the 



aid of setters and pointers and we expect 

 to provide shooting for many friends 

 who will not charge us anything for their 

 assistance at the harvest time. Thus we 

 shall live up to the sentimental maxim 

 "sport for sport's sake" just as the trap- 

 shooters "live up to their maxim "trap- 

 shooting for trapshooting sake," and like 

 the trapshooters we expect to have a big 

 lot of shooting on our home grounds. In 

 order not to be outdone by the sentimen- 

 tal outpourings of the more game law 

 political sportsmen we shall place on the 

 wall over the big wood fire and beneath 

 the gun which we carried on the prairies 

 many years ago, the motto, "God Bless 

 Our Home — in the Country." 



We shall keep up our membership in 

 the Long Island Game Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation and in several other game breed- 

 ing syndicates where we expect always 

 to find good shooting at a small cost per 

 gun. We shall keep up our interest in 

 the many commercial game farms which 

 will supply thousands of game birds and 

 eggs to the game shooting clubs and we 

 shall continue to advise and to help cre- 

 ate many new customers for the game 

 farms. 



The shooting of large numbers of 

 birds is quite necessary to keep the busi- 

 ness of the producers good. Game farm- 

 ing and "otherwise than by shooting" 

 laws are decidedly inharmonious. The 

 shooting clubs and preserve owners are 

 the best customers of the game farmers 

 in all civilized countries and to provide 

 that purchasers must not shoot is to pro- 

 vide that there will be no customers. 

 Game farming under such conditions 

 quickly would come to an end. 



The Work of the Year. 



The work of the Game Conservation 

 Society during the year now ending has 

 been important and effective. Our ap- 

 peal for fewer game laws has been 

 heeded in many parts of the country. 

 Our appeal for more game has resulted 

 in a large increase in the numbers of the 

 species of game birds which are exempt 

 from the laws preventing the production 

 and the sale of game. Many breeders of 



