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THE GAME BREEDER 



sufficient exercise, cutting down the grain 

 ration and making available to them a 

 mixed diet of natural foods. It is hoped 

 that game farmers will take these very 

 necessary steps for the continuation of 

 their 'business in a practical way. We 

 must not allow game farming to perish 

 during the present unfavorable times, for 

 it is one of the fundamental necessities 

 for the continuance in this country of an 

 adequate supply of game. — Bulletin of 

 The Protective Association. 



Country Homes. 



We strongly believe there will be little 

 interference with game breeders who 

 breed any kind of game in the future. 

 We are constantly advising people not 

 to hesitate about purchasing country 

 homes with the view to having game. 

 They certaintly cannot be arrested for 

 liberating stock birds, and we are quite 

 sure the laws soon will be amended so 

 that it will not be criminal to harvest the 

 food crop. 



Proposed Amendments. 



The needed amendments to State laws 

 in some of the States are the following: 



1. To permit the taking of all species 

 of birds and eggs for propagation pur- 

 poses under State regulations. 



2. To make State laws conform with 

 the regulations permitting the trapping 

 of migratory birds for breeding pur- 

 poses. 



3. To provide for the licensing of 

 dealers in game who sell it as food. 



4. To permit the profitable breeding 

 of all species in any manner on the farms 

 and game ranches. 



It is absurd to require that money 

 must be sent to Belgium and other for- 

 eign countries for wood-duck. It is ab- 

 surd to require that money only can be 

 sent to Mexico for quail for breeding 

 purposes. The farmers will stop the 

 song-bird activity when they can produce 

 game profitably for breeding purposes 

 and for food. The "otherwise than by 

 shooting" nonsense should of course be 

 repealed in the few States where the 

 State game officers are required to stop 



shooting. The game shooting clubs are 

 the be§t customers of game farmers. In 

 fact, there can be very little game farm- 

 ing without customers. 



Wants a Farm. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 23.— The 

 first application for a farm in the North- 

 west has been received from Private 

 Adolph Gold, Company D, 19th Rail- 

 way Engineers, A. E. F. Private Gold, 

 in his letter, says that in a Paris news- 

 paper of recent date he saw an announce- 

 ment of the effect that Minneapolis was 

 making arrangements to supply returned 

 soldiers with pieces of land. "I have 

 learned to love the out-door life," writes 

 Gold, "and when I come back I want a 

 farm." The mayor referred the request 

 to a committee of the Civic and Com- 

 merce Association having the farm ques- 

 tion under supervision. 



The State Game Departments. 



Many of the State game officers are 

 subscribing members of The Game Con- 

 servation Society and read The Game 

 Breeder. All intelligent officers are 

 aware that the farmers' interests must 

 be distinctly considered and that they 

 have the right to post their lands against 

 shooting, as most of the farmers do. We 

 feel safe in saying that all of the State 

 officers who understand the more game 

 and fewer game law movement now are 

 in favor of it ; that they believe it will 

 be far better for sportsmen of all classes 

 to encourage those who wish to do so to 

 breed game for sport and for profit than 

 to have the ponds and marshes on the 

 farms drained and the upland game 

 placed on the song-bird list for terms of 

 years or forever. 



The war disclosed the fact that 

 America had become gameless in so far 

 as there being any game in the markets 

 for the people to eat, and that on vast 

 areas, entire States in fact, it was illegal 

 for anyone to take some species of game 

 at any time. Those who understand the 

 subject know that it will take very little 

 of the land which is now posted against 

 shooting to keep the markets full of 

 cheap game. 



