T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XIV 



JANUARY, J919 

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SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 4 



Live Game Prizes. 



Our Committee on Prizes has made 

 the following awards : 



1st Prize, Gambel's Quail, to General 

 George W. Wingate for his article "How 

 to Preserve Quail." 



The author advised trapping quail to 

 save them during severe winter weather, 

 but pointed out that it was illegal to 

 thus save the birds. The article, no 

 doubt, helped some amendments made 

 to the laws. All states should, of course, 

 permit the trapping of game birds not 

 only in order to protect them in winter 

 but also for propagation purposes. 



2nd Prize, Live Bob-white Quail, to 

 Miss Lillian E. Gallup for her excellent 

 article, "Playing with Nature." The 

 author says she was induced to under- 

 take game breeding by reading the book- 

 let of the Hercules Powder Company on 

 Game Farming, and described her suc- 

 cessful breeding of pheasants. 



3rd Prize, Scaled Quail, to Thos. W. 

 Cheesbrough for his article, "My Ex- 

 perience with Pheasants." 



A special prize was awarded by the 

 editor to C. W. Siegler for his article on 

 "Breeding Gambel's Quail," which gave 

 an account of a disaster which spoiled a 

 promising experiment in breeding Gam- 

 bel's from birds, awarded to the author 

 last year for an article in The Game 

 Breeder. 



Another special prize was" awarded to 

 Z. T. DeKalmar for his article, "A Be- 

 ginner's Experience." 



The Committee highly commended ar- 

 ticles by J. Freston, "More Game and 

 Crows"; by C. M. Menzel, Pheasant 

 Breeding for the Beginner; "Mallard 

 Breeding in Michigan," by A. B. Du- 

 sette; "Black Duck and How to Raise 



Them," by R. E. Bullock; "Game 

 Farms," by Hon. Theo. Roualt ; "Impor- 

 tations of Bob-whites" by Hon. J. Quincy 

 Ward; "My Experience in Game Breed- 

 ing," J. B. Foote; "The Weazel," M. J. 

 Newhouse. 



Our Policy. 



New members of the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society are enrolled every day in the 

 year excepting Sunday. It is important 

 for these new members to know just 

 what the Society stands for and what 

 they should work for in order to secure 

 the necessary freedom for game breed- 

 ers who produce game for profit or for 

 sport. 



1 — Breeders should have the right to 

 breed and sell any species of game 

 under permits issued by the State 

 Game Department, without charge. 



2 — They should have the right to 

 breed game in captivity or in a wild 

 state within the boundaries of the 

 farm, game ranch or preserve. 



3 — They should have the right to take 

 wild birds or eggs for breeding 

 purposes under liberal regulations 

 and permits issued by the State 

 Game Departments. 



A — They should have the right to sell 

 the food produced to licensed game 

 dealers under simple regulations re- 

 quiring that the game shipped and 

 sold be identified as game produced 

 and owned by the breeder. 



5 — They should have the right to sell 

 live game and eggs at any time. 



6 — Aviary species should be entirely 

 exempt from the game laws, since 

 these species are not found in a 

 wild state and are not shot and 



