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ered in the fall. We believe any breeders 

 who may wish to do so can secure orders 

 for birds at a price to be agreed upon, 

 provided they will place an advertisement 

 offering to breed birds under a contract. 



Breeders easily can sell their birds 

 with the understanding that they are to 

 be shipped when quite young and it 

 should be desirable to have orders in ad- 

 vance so that the breeder will know just 

 when he can receive the cash for young 

 birds. 



Breeders are advised to offer one day 

 old pheasants and wild ducks. Our ex- 

 periments indicate that they can be 

 shipped safely just as one day old chick- 

 ens are. 



Last January we expressed the hope 

 that we would be able to collect some 

 game for the hospitals and also to breed 

 some for this purpose. We were so late 

 in getting started and we found it so 

 nearly impossible to secure American 

 game birds for breeding purposes, and 

 so many of our members went into the 

 service and temporarily abandoned game 

 breeding, that it soon became evident 

 that we could not conduct our charitable 

 experiment. Some readers offered to 

 donate a few birds, but the big demand 

 for live birds for breeding purposes, 

 created by The Game Breeder, and our 

 inability to finance the project properly, 

 on account of the increased cost of paper, 

 printing and postage, forced us, reluct- 

 antly, to abandon our proposed activity. 

 We hope it will not be long before the 

 Society has a fund sufficient to move all 

 the game contributed and also to purchase 

 game and to breed some, to be distrib- 

 uted. Now that good shooting is to be 

 undertaken again on a much larger scale 

 than ever before, we think it likely we 

 soon will be able to do what we could 

 not possibly do during the last year. 



Canada geese, Mr. Hunt has outdone 

 his best previous paintings, so many of 

 which this company has had the privi- 

 lege of reproducing for the public. In 

 conception, action, draftsmanship and 

 color it is superbly true to life. Natur- 

 ally, such a faithful reproduction of a 

 truly great painting will be highly valued 

 by sportsmen everywhere throughout 

 the world. The demand for this cal- 

 endar will surely be greater than the 

 supply, therefore should you, for any 

 reason, be willing to pass your copy 

 along to some sportsman friend, he no 

 doubt will thank you for it. 



Our only criticism of this excellent 

 calendar would be chat possibly the eagle 

 does not strike geese in the manner pic- 

 tured. He often, and usually, we be- 

 lieve, strikes from below, driving his 

 talons into the under side of his quarry ; 

 and sometimes both of the big birds fall 

 to the water together, when the eagle 

 tows his goose to a sandbar to devour it. 

 However, the want of a few facts should 

 never interfere with a good story or 

 picture and possibly an eagle striking 

 from above is more dramatically pictorial 

 than one striking from below would be. 



Some Wild Geese. 



You know the work of Lynn Bogue 

 Hunt. In his chosen field he stands su- 

 preme in America today — our greatest 

 painter of game birds. In the subject of 

 this calendar, a golden eagle attacking 



QUESTIONS. 

 Is Cookery a Science? 



Editor Game Breeder: 



In our State the possession, killing 

 and sale of pheasants and partridges is 

 unlawful except for scientific or propa- 

 gating purposes. I wish to cook some 

 of these birds and write to ask if cook- 

 ing would be a scientific purpose within 

 the meaning of the statute. 



A Delaware Reader. 



Cookery at one time ranked as an art, 

 a familiar expression was, "the culinary 

 art," but recently cooking has been ele- 

 vated to a science. It is taught in the 

 colleges and degrees are given to those 

 who propose to teach it. At Columbia 

 it is regarded as a science and an art. It 

 is highly scientific since it deals with 

 chemistry and you will hear professors of 

 cookery talk in terms of proteins and 

 other things suitable for the human 



