T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XIV 



FEBRUARY, 1919 



NUMBER 5 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



Game Breeders 



The Game Breeder is the only means 

 of communication between game farmers 

 and their shooting customers, the game 

 shooting clubs and the owners of farms 

 and country places which have game for 

 shooting. There are numerous publica- 

 tions which encourage trap shooting and 

 many which publish stories of shooting 

 wild game in Canada and in the States 

 where still it is legal to shoot some spe- 

 cies of game, but The Game Breeder is 

 the trade paper which reaches all of the 

 game producers in America and their 

 customers who wish to purchase game 

 for propagation and for shooting. 



In some states we now have hundreds 

 of game breeders. In all of the states 

 and in the provinces of Canada we have 

 some and the number is increasing rap- 

 idly everywhere. It is for this reason 

 that advertisements in The Game Breed- 

 er produce the splendid results which 

 advertisers continually say they do in 

 letters to the magazine. 



Good Advice 



We receive a big mail and the tele- 

 phone rings often, requesting us to tell 

 the applicants where they can purchase 

 game. In all cases the answer is, "From 

 our advertisers." It would not be fair 

 for us to recommend one advertiser or 

 another. 



One use of the magazine seems often 

 to be overlooked. It is the right place 

 to insert advertisements of game want- 

 ed. If our readers find that the adver- 

 tisers can not furnish just what they 

 want they should send advertisements, 

 stating that they wish to purchase game 

 and eggs and asking readers to quote 

 prices. The game breeders are now 



standing well together and many send 

 subscriptions for others when renewing 

 their own subscription. All game breed- 

 ers who believe that their industry should 

 be protected and not prevented should 

 deal with those who advertise, not only 

 when buying game but also when pur- 

 chasing appliances, ammunition, etc. 



The Migratory Bird Treaty Law 



There seems to be a wide misunder- 

 standing about the migratory bird treaty 

 law. This arises from there being two 

 laws on the subject of migratory birds. 

 The first one, which was enacted before 

 the treaty was made, was declared un- 

 constitutional by three United States 

 District Courts in Arkansas, Kansas and 

 Maine. The question of the constitu- 

 tionality of the law was argued before 

 the United States Supreme Court which 

 was asked to reverse the Circuit Court 

 decisions. After some delay the court 

 asked to have the case re-argued, which 

 seemed to us to indicate that it was not 

 prepared to reverse the lower courts. 



Those interested in the law evidently 

 decided that they were advocating a bad 

 law and they decided to procure a treaty 

 with Canada and to ask for a new act 

 of Congress based on the treaty. 



The Present Law 



The new act, as our readers will re- 

 member, was preventive and not per- 

 missive, and we opposed its enactment, 

 insisting that it should distinctly say 

 that nothing in it should be construed 

 to prevent the breeding, shooting and sale 

 of game. We do not believe the Con- 

 gress ever would have passed the law 

 had it not been amended so as to give 



