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detrimental to agriculture and require 

 scare boys to keep them out of the fields, 

 but you must not produce our native 

 quail and grouse, which are beneficial to 

 agriculture and which can be produced 

 cheaply since they will find most of their 

 food in the fields and woods. 



Laws shortening the season, of course, 

 are inimical to the game breeding indus- 

 try, since the producer of any food 

 should not be required to sell it only dur- 

 ing one month in the year. 



The pheasants and certain species of 

 wild ducks quickly became abundant' on 

 many game farms as soon as the preven- 

 tive laws were amended so as to permit 

 the profitable breeding of these birds. 

 Quail also have been made tremendously 

 abundant in places where the laws are not 

 too restrictive to prevent any industry 

 being applied to increase their numbers. 

 American grouse purchased and liberated 

 in a place where there were no grouse 

 soon became very plentiful and restocked 

 miles of territory, just as the grouse 

 quickly became plentiful on all the moors 

 of Scotland when the necessary industry 

 was applied to make these birds abun- 

 dant. The birds are bred wild on the 

 moors and protected against natural en- 

 emies just as our grouse should be bred 

 on the prairie. 



Often we have pointed out that sport 

 has nothing to fear from an abundance 

 of game on many places where it is prop- 

 erly looked after. Such abundance makes 

 it not necessary to put the food birds on 

 the song bird list and to prohibit shoot- 

 ing for terms of years or forever. 



The country is large and it has been 

 found that comparatively little land is 

 used by game farms and shooting clubs 

 in the States where game breeders' laws 

 have been enacted. Sportsmen who 

 unite to share the expense of producing 

 game on farms where it no longer occurs 

 or where shooting always is prohibited 

 evidently not only provide good shoot- 

 ing for themselves, often at very small 

 expense, but also provide shooting for 

 those who do nothing in the way of 



game production. 



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We are much pleased to observe that 

 many of those who were opposed to all 



of the ideas advanced by The Game 

 Breeder now have accepted many or all 

 of them. We observe that there is a 

 tendency and a willingness on the part 

 of patriotic state officers to encourage 

 the food and sport producers; to grant 

 them licenses to take birds and eggs for 

 breeding purposes and not to compel 

 them to send all their money abroad to 

 purchase foreign birds which are no bet- 

 ter, if as good as our own. 



OUTINGS AND INNINGS. 

 Camouflage Department, B. C. 



The Little Greek — Daddy, what did 

 you do in the Trojan War? 



Daddy (proudly) — My child, I 

 painted the spots on the wooden horse. 

 ■ — London Punch. 



Before the War. 



Maybe you also remember the good 

 old times when a person could buy a 

 nickel's worth of cheese and crackers 

 and get some of both. — Dallas News. 



Experienced. 



Officer — You are the coolest man un- 

 der fire I ever saw. 



Soldier — Oh, I'm quite used to being 

 shot at. I was an Adirondack guide, 

 sir, for years, , 



The Limit of Economy. 



Rankin — He is a very economical man. 

 Phyle — What makes you think so? 

 Rankin — Why, he even saves the tacks 

 he pulls out of his tires. — Boston Globe. 



Deer Jumped Through Engine. 

 Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 7. — Attempting \o 

 jump across a cut in advance of a train, 

 a young buck jumped partly through the 

 window of a cab on the Philadelphia and 

 Reading Railroad near here. The engi- 

 neer and fireman had narrow escapes 

 from injury. The deer was dragged and 

 killed. 



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A Good New Year's Resolution. 

 I will send three new subscriptions for 

 The Game Breeder. 



