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the food after he has produced it on the 

 farm. 



Grouse are the easiest game birds to 

 produce in big numbers, inexpensively. 

 The Game Breeder will furnish full in- 

 formation about the best methods of pro- 

 ducing a few thousand dollars worth of 

 grouse each season which will be bene- 

 ficial and not detrimental to the farm. 

 The farmers and ranch owners easily 



can have their laws amended so as to 

 make grouse breeding a legal industry. 

 All intelligent sportsmen favor the idea 

 and The Game Breeder will take the 

 field and help in a hearty manner in any 

 state where readers may wish to inter- 

 vene and save the grouse from extinction 

 by making them profitably plentiful. The 

 people will enjoy seeing the food abun- 

 dant in the markets. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Readers are requested to write letters for this department. It should be the most interest- 

 ing part of the magazine. — Editor. 



Pole Traps. 



Traps for hawks and crows should be 

 placed on high poles in order not to catch 

 quail and song birds as they will if 

 placed on fence posts. 



The traps should not be set on poles 

 near nests of quail or grouse, otherwise 

 the trapped hawks will alarm the setting 

 bird. 



Ground Traps. 



Ground traps should be used abun- 

 dantly to take cats and other ground ver- 

 min. A trap baited with fish will prove 

 very attractive to cats and skunks. 



The ground traps should be sprung in 

 the daytime, otherwise they may catch 

 and destroy game birds. 



Old traps not set but simply placed 

 near nests are said by game keepers to 

 be effective in keeping foxes away from 

 nesting birds. 



Prizes. 



A number of prizes of live game will 

 be awarded to readers who write the 

 best letters, giving their experience in 

 game breeding during the year. We 

 hope to give some prairie grouse and 

 ruffed grouse as prizes and we believe 

 we will be able to do so. We certainly 

 will if the laws are amended so that we 

 can procure the birds. 



Other things being equal our prizes 

 will be awarded to breeders whose ar- 

 ticles are not written by large adver- 



tisers whose articles are beneficial write- 

 ups. We are glad to help the advertis- 

 ing in this way but the beginners need 

 our encouragement more than the old 

 hands do. 



Incubators. 



We especially request our readers to 

 write their experience in hatching game 

 eggs in incubators. Letters should con- 

 tain accurate details of the temperature, 

 number of eggs placed in incubator, num- 

 ber hatched and the percentage of birds 

 reared to maturity. 



Details of feeding the young and the 

 methods of rearing with bantams, other 

 fowls or game birds, etc., will surely 

 interest our readers. 



We would strongly advise breeders 

 who hatch grouse and quail eggs in in- 

 cubators to transfer the young birds to 

 old grouse and quail and to give some 

 of them liberty in protected gardens 

 When the birds are quite young. 



Experiments on these lines will be 

 made on our experimental game farms, 

 and we hope to print the experiences o£ 

 others who rear game in a similar man- 

 ner. 



Articles about the breeding of wood 

 duck, teal and other wild fowl besides 

 the easy mallards are requested. 



Fields Attractive to Game- 

 Often we have pointed out the impor- 

 tance of keeping fields attractive to game. 



