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THE GAME BREEDER 



who use live decoys at their duck preserves. 

 These live decoys, as a rule, have become so 

 nearly domesticated that they would not leave 

 their pens if there were no protecting screens 

 on top, but gun clubs would not care to as- 

 sume the risk of their flying away. 

 Conflict in Court Avoided. 



The attorney-general told the game warden 

 a few months ago that the migratory bird law 

 could not be upheld in court and suggested 

 that Darwin refuse to enforce it in this state. 

 When Darwin got ready to serve this ul- 

 timatum he was informed that the federal act 

 so nearly met the Washington game laws that 

 federal authorities would be satisfied with the 

 enforcement of the state code. In this manner 

 a test of the validity of the act was avoided, 

 but Darwin believes the question can be 

 brought up through the new order. 



Since the Bureau of Biological Sur- 

 vey (not Entomology as the Times has 

 it) has decided to issue permits to take 

 ducks and eggs for breeding and shoot- 

 ing purposes and the law distinctly pro- 

 tects sportsmen and breeders who wish 

 to produce wild fowl, we are glad to ob- 

 serve that the differences in Washington 

 State and Washington City have been 

 amicably adjusted. 



Good Advice. 



If you want any game birds or eggs 

 for breeding purposes write to our ad- 

 vertisers and place your orders now. 

 Otherwise you probably will not get any 

 birds or eggs— certainly not any early 

 eggs, which are the most desirable. 



A Boom Impending. 



It is evident that commercial game 

 farming and syndicate and individual 

 game shooting are to have a boom this 

 season. Some of the breeders write that 

 they will enlarge their plants and will be 

 in the market to purchase birds and eggs 

 and will have none to sell during the 

 breeding season. It will pay the numer- 

 ous shooting clubs to produce game on 

 a much larger scale than ever before be- 

 cause the market prices for dead game 

 remain up and it is an easy matter to 

 sell a big lot of game, as many of the 

 clubs now do in order to help pay their 

 running expenses. 



A Big Quail Year. 



There is every indication that quail 

 breeding will have a boom this year. 



Many new quail clubs are being started 

 in places where it is not criminal to 

 profitably look after the quail. It seems 

 a pity that in some places quail have 

 been placed on the song bird list, but 

 there are vast areas where quail can be 

 properly looked after and where good 

 quail shooting can be had as a result of 

 the necessary and proper industry. 



The Massachusetts Commission con- 

 ducts a successful game breeding plant 

 where sportsmen can learn how to pro- 

 duce quail by hand-rearing methods 

 which will be found useful as supple- 

 mentary to the protection of quail bred 

 wild in protected fields. 



Trap Shooting and Game Shooting. 



We were asked upon one occasion why 

 we did not give more space to trap 

 shooting, "the sport alluring." Our an- 

 swer was that we believed the field was 

 fully covered by periodicals better 

 equipped to handle the subject than we 

 are. 



We are in favor of trap shooting, but 

 we also are in favor of shooting game. 

 We do not fancy, for example, the idea 

 that only trap shooting should be per- 

 mitted in Ohio and many other states 

 which are quite suitable for quail shoot- 

 ing, as we know from experience in the 

 state named and in many other states 

 which formerly permitted quail shoot- 

 ing. We like pheasant shooting, but we 

 do not believe that pheasant should be 

 substituted for quail and for grouse and 

 other indigenous game which should not 

 be "protected off the face of the earth." 



We have interviewed many sportsmen 

 recently in order to ascertain if they 

 were opposed to game shooting clubs 

 where game is shot abundantly and we 

 have not found a single sportsman who 

 would say that game shooting should be 

 prohibited on the places where sports- 

 men are producing game. 



From the Chestnut Tree. 



"A man may be a big stiff " 



"Yes, yes; proceed!" 

 "But a painful corn' will make him 

 limp." 



