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THE GAME BREEDER 



A Valuable School. 

 The' Game Conservation Society. 



Enclosed please find card signed with 

 my address and one dollar for a subscrip- 

 tion to The Game Breeder. The Game 

 Breeder is a very valuable school to all 

 persons interested in the conservation of 

 game and hunting. 



I can see the wonderful result gained 

 for all hunters and farmers if they will 

 carry out the new method of conserva- 

 tion of game in America. 



It gives me pleasure to cooperate with 

 your society in the good work and after 

 the first of the year I will send you a 

 list of names of the persons I feel con- 

 fident we can interest in the work here. 



A. P. H. 



It is interesting and gratifying to read 

 the mail which contains many letters sim- 

 ilar to the above. Every sportsman as 

 soon as he understands the "more game 

 and fewer game laws" movement be- 

 comes an enthusiast for it because he 

 knows that it will soon put an end to 

 ''song-bird" nonsense, "otherwise than 

 by shooting" nonsense, "closed season" 

 nonsense and much other nonsense 

 which the late dean of sportsmen had in 

 mind when he said: "Truly we need a 

 revolution of thought and a revival of 

 common sense." 



find same very interesting. Wishing you 

 success, I am, 



Ohio. I. A. W. Dean. 



Gray Partridges- 

 Editor, Game Breeder: 



May I ask a little information about 

 Hungarian partridges ? Are they as easy 

 to raise as ringneck pheasants? Are 

 they as good a bird for the table as the 

 pheasant ? 



California. e. H. Moulton. 



(Partridges are best reared wild in protected 

 fields. A few are hand-reared as pheasants 

 are by keepers in the older countries. Fully 

 as good as pheasants on the table. Some pre- 

 fer them. — Editor.) 



Interesting. 



Game Conservation Society : 



Yours at hand. Regards to same en- 

 closed find check for $1.00 for year's 

 subscription to The Game Breeder. I 



Quail in Mississippi. 



Editor, Game Breeder: 



Will you kindly advise me if quail 

 may now be reared and bred in confine- 

 ment and if they may be sold and shipped 

 out of the state. Is there any demand 

 for them ? In other words, do you think 

 it would be profitable to take up the 

 breeding of quail? 



Can you advise me what kind of traps 

 are best for trapping quail and advise 

 where they may be obtained? 

 . Mississippi. M. G. 



(We are quite sure that quail may now be 

 reared and bred in confinement in your state 

 and that probably birds so produced may be 

 sold and shipped out of the state. We believe 

 if you legally acquire stock birds and if by 

 your industry you produce this highly desir- 

 able food, your courts will hold that laws in- 

 tended to protect wild quail which are said to 

 be owned by the state because they have no 

 other owner, do not apply to quail which you 

 have purchased and their eggs and young. 

 Otherwise the courts must hold that the legis- 

 lature intended to make food production a 

 crime in Mississippi. The tendency of the 

 courts is in the opposite direction. 



There is a tremendous demand for live quail 

 for breeding purposes. The demand is posi- 

 tively without limit and the price paid " for 

 Mexican quail, $24 to $30 per dozen in large 

 lots (by the thousand in fact), indicates that 

 quail breeding will be very profitable in your 

 state as elsewhere. Quail lay many eggs when 

 confined in pens ; provided the eggs are gath- 

 ered daily they persist in laying and the eggs 

 sell readily at from $4 to $6 per dozen. 



The ordinary figure four trap baited with 

 corn is much used to trap quail. Wire traps 

 such as are used to take up pheasants and quail 

 nets also are used to advantage.) 



"The Biggest Game Producing Coun- 

 try in the World." 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I am glad to note the interest you are 

 taking in having our State law amended 

 so that it will conform with the regu- 

 lation under the Migratory Bird Law. 

 It sure will be a fine thing, if possible to 

 do this, and I see no reason why it can- 



