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THE GAME BREEDER 



sum (the market price) if the birds are 

 taken home by the harvester. This pro- 

 gram, suggested by a prominent member 

 of the society, appeals to us since it illus- 

 trates our idea of "sport for sport's 

 sake," true sport being generous and will- 

 ing to shoot something for the people who 

 do not shoot, to eat. The old style inter- 

 pretation of the adage sport for sport's 

 sake, that the sportsman should only 

 shoot what he could personally eat in a 

 day and that he should put in the rest of 

 the day recreating never appealed to us 

 because we like to shoot in the afternoon 

 as much as we do in the morning and 

 besides we like to entertain generous 

 thoughts about those who should expect 

 to have some game upon our return. 

 Only shooting for sport's sake what the 

 shooter's own belly would comfortably 

 contain always seemed to be extreme sel- 

 fishness. If the adage be applied to deer 

 shooting the shooter would have more 

 than he could personally eat after one 

 shot. 



By far the most important enactment 

 during the year was the Migratory Bird 

 Law after it was amended so as to. give 

 absolute protection to game breeders and 

 sportsmen. The regulation made by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture permitting the 

 trapping and sale of all species of wild 

 fowl for breeding purposes and the sale 

 by game breeders and sportsmen of the 

 birds produced as food is highly cred- 

 itable. If the regulation is liberally ex- 

 ecuted it will produce a vast amount of 

 food for the people, splendid shooting 

 for the industrious, and it will be highly 

 beneficial to the shooting on public 

 waters, since as we have pointed out 

 often the breeding and shooting of large 

 quantities of ducks will drive many of 

 the fowl to public waters where those 

 who do not produce anything will find 

 excellent shooting. 



The attempt to destroy a good regula- 

 tion by the "otherwise than by shooting" 

 provision was promptly looked after by 

 the Game Conservation Society with 

 good results. 



A New Shooting Club. 



A new shooting club was promptly 

 formed by people residing in the neigh- 



borhood of the Long Island Game Breed- 

 ers' Association with annual due of $10. 

 This club we believe does not contem- 

 plate breeding game but will rely upon 

 the abundance likely to be created by the 

 association of breeders. Everyone in the 

 neighborhood we believe who wishes to 

 shoot can join this club and no doubt 

 members from the city are acceptable.- 

 This is as it should be. Shooting will Le 

 provided for a much larger number of 

 guns than possibly could be entertained 

 on the ground without exterminating the 

 game. The new club may not have the 

 benefits which game producers have, 

 probably they cannot shoot hen pheasants 

 and may be limited to certain days in 

 the year, small bags, etc. We predict 

 when game becomes plentiful as it will 

 they can have more liberal laws or pos- 

 sibly they may produce a little on their 

 own account and secure the freedom of 

 producers. At all events everyone who 

 wishes to shoot will find something to 

 shoot. 



Bad News. 



While writing these notes about the 

 work of the year a message came stating 

 that Dwight Huntington, 2d, of The 

 Game Breeder's staff, was seriously 

 wounded in the last battle in France. 



Now is a very good time to send in 

 advertisements of live birds for propa- 

 gation and it is an excellent plan to send 

 egg advertisements not later than Janu- 

 ary. There will be an immense demand 

 for eggs next spring and many of our 

 readers will order early to be sure of get- 

 ting eggs. The demand for quail and 

 quail eggs will be especially strong and 

 we would urge all of our readers to pur- 

 chase all the quail and all the eggs they 

 can secure. Quail lay many eggs when 

 confined in pens provided the eggs be 

 lifted daily and the eggs bring splendid 

 prices. 



Game as a food supply quickly can be 

 made tremendously abundant. Game as 

 the football of politics quickly can be 

 kicked out of existence or placed on the 

 song bird list. 



