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Herein, I believe, partly lies the explana- 

 tion for the extreme mortality among 

 partridge or ruffed grouse also, which 

 were even scaicer than the prairie chick- 

 en during the autumn just past. It might 

 here be asked how long will the remain- 

 ing supply of old birds withstand the in- 

 roads of hunters, especially if the coming 

 year should prove to be another adverse 

 one? 



J. P. Turner 



Birds Wanted. 



Often we receive requests from people 

 who wish to buy game birds and poultry 

 that we either purchase the birds for the 

 writers or inform them where to pur- 

 chase, who are the best dealers, the most 

 reliable, etc. 



It would be absolutely unfair for The 

 Game Breeder to recommend one adver- 

 tiser in preference to another. We in- 

 sist that all who wish to advertise must 

 deal fairly with our readers and we will 

 "fire" an advertiser instantly who does 

 not do so. This is generally understood 

 and the result is we have only the best 

 and most responsible dealers, big and 

 small, and our readers who believe that 

 game farming, game preserving and the 

 sale of game for breeding purposes and 

 for food should be encouraged should 

 deal with those who support The Game 

 Breeder by advertising in it. Every one 

 who has anything to sell should carry at 

 least a small advertisement which costs 

 only a few cents and which helps much 

 to make the magazine interesting and 

 useful. Don't wait to be asked to adver- 

 tise. We are too busy making it possible 

 for you to do business with all species 

 of birds to spend any time asking for 

 bird advertisements. Those we have 

 have come without our request. One 

 reason why they keep coming is they pro- 

 duce results. An advertisement costing 

 a few cents will sell all the eggs and 

 birds any one wishes to dispose of. 



The Effect of More Laws. 



One of our readers who opposedthe 

 Migratory Bird Law sends the following : 



"If you wish to sleep well at night, avoid 

 discussing in the evening the recent increase 

 in the number of government employes. Theo- 

 dore Price estimates, in Commerce and Fin- 

 ance, that seven million Americans are now 

 being paid out of public revenues. Continu- 

 ing, Mr. Price says: "The services of men 

 are required to make other men obey the 

 law, and if we continue to multiply laws in- 

 definitely we shall presently reach the condition 

 that existed in Peru under the Incas, when 

 twelve per cent, of the population were govern- 

 ment officials unproductively employed in try- 

 ing to enforce an infinitude of regulations, 

 which, as described by Prescott in his 'Con- 

 quest of Peru,' penetrated into the most private 

 recesses of domestic life, allowing no man, 

 however humble, to act for himself even in 

 those matters in which none but himself or 

 his family at most might be supposed to be 

 interested. Even the number of children that 

 a mother might bring in the world was deter- 

 mined by government regulation." — E. W. 

 Howe's Monthly of July, 1918. 



How many new specials should be ap- 

 pointed to prevent quail breeding and 

 the importation of quail from Mexico at 

 a time when a man and his family may 

 think they want quail for food producing 

 purposes? The effort to prevent quail 

 production on Long Island failed. So no 

 specials will be required there. 



The citation of the advertisements of 

 eggs in The Game Breeder at the Con- 

 gressional hearing helped us in our efforts 

 to have the game breeders fully protected 

 against the wild-lifing protectionists. — - 

 Dr. Job, of The Audubons. Thanks ! 



Now that all the young men are away 

 we want easy matter to edit. Pictorial 

 advertisements make our work light. 

 Send them in without waiting to be asked. 



Why should anyone announce himself 

 as the pronounced enemy of Common 

 Sense? 



