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THE GAME BREEDER 



the activities of their game policemen or 

 who may favor such practices in order 

 to increase the receipts from fines should 

 not be surprised if the people decide 

 that the Governor of the State who has 

 appointed them should be defeated for 

 reelection, or if the people rise to demand 

 the abolition of a department disgrace- 

 ful to the State and a standing menace 

 to the freedom of its citizens. For- 

 tunately most of the States have highly 

 creditable State game departments and 

 commissions. There are only a few 

 States where such performances as raid- 

 ing aviaries or hen roosts in the name of 

 the law are tolerated. 



If any member of the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society should be arrested for hav- 

 ing or killing an aviary pheasant we shall 

 be glad to defend the case and to ask 

 for the removal of the State officer. He 

 should be compelled to respond in dam- 

 ages to the complaint of the citizen. 



A Donation. 



One of our readers, sending a check 

 for $15 says he recently filled a substan- 

 tial order for another reader and al- 

 though he had no advertisement in the 

 magazine at the time, he appreciated that 

 the business was due to a former adver- 

 tisement. He suggests that the $15 will 

 about pay for two meals in New York 

 and that the editor use the money in this 

 way. "Go down to the Grand Central 

 Station restaurant," he says, "and eat 

 it out, a couple of orders will just about 

 take it, judging by what my 'small steak, 

 bread and coffee cost me." 



We are too busy to spend any time in 

 the manner suggested and we will use 

 the money to procure live game for our 

 experimental work. 



As a reason why he quit advertising, he 

 says : "My trouble is in finding game to 

 sell, not in selling. I don't want to have 

 to write a lot of useless letters explaining 

 that the advertisement is just running 

 but don't mean what it says." 



Many game breeders are very new at 

 the business for the very good reason that 

 the business was criminal until quite re- 

 cently when the "more game and fewer 

 game laws" movement set things going 

 in the right direction. Breeders who ex- 



pect to remain in the industry which is 

 growing with startling rapidity should 

 know that it is wise to keep up a corres- 

 pondence with our readers and to en- 

 deavor to procure game for them, other- 

 wise the customers will forget them when 

 game becomes abundant and the compe- 

 tition is more lively than it now is. The 

 Game Breeder reaches the people who 

 can afford to buy game at present prices 

 and we feel sure it is wise for those who 

 expect to remain in the business to keep 

 acquainted with our readers and to let 

 them know that they expect to have more 

 game quite soon. Those who are opposed 

 to shooting clubs and to the game far- 

 mers having any big customers are well 

 pleased to see only a few people adver- 

 tising game. The advertisements, how- 

 ever speak louder than we can, and 

 those who believe in the industry should 

 advertise. 



We would advise all who expect to 

 breed game this season to order their 

 eggs now and to stipulate for early ship- 

 ments. 



One Day Old Game Birds. 

 The successful experiments made in 

 shipping one day old pheasants and wild 

 ducks last year proved that these birds 

 can be shipped as safely as one day old 

 chickens are. Small breeders and 

 owners of country places are advised to 

 purchase some one day old game birds 

 and give them a trial. The hen used in 

 hatching the eggs should be shipped with 

 the brood in a separate package and the 

 young birds can be reared by placing the 

 hen in a coop with a small fender before 

 it to hold the young birds for a few days. 

 Later the fender should be removed and 

 the young birds permitted to chase insects 

 in the grass. Some breeders have liber- 

 ated the hen with the young game birds 

 and we have reports of successful rear- 

 ing by this method. The hen and chicks 

 wander in a safe field or orchard and ' 

 are shut up in the coop at night. 



More Pheasants. 



Mr. Peter P. Carney, authority on 

 sporting topics says : 



Pheasants to the number of 23,398 were im- 

 ported in 1911. To-day not a pheasant is com- 



