THE GAME BREEDER 



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Carolina, as they have been in many 

 states, so as to encourage the production 

 of game on the farms. Such laws have 

 produced a lot of game in other States 

 and South Carolina should be a big game 

 producing state. 



If the game department can supervise 

 and regulate the production of game foi 

 sport and for food it soon will prove its 

 worth to all of the people. 



The agricultural departments encour- 

 age the production of plants and animals 

 on the farms. The state game depart- 

 ments should encourage the profitable 

 production of game on game farms. In 

 Ohio and some other states the depart- 

 ment distributes pheasants and eggs to 

 those who will produce the game. In 

 South Carolina the quail or partridge 

 should be produced in big numbers by 

 those who are willing to engage in the 

 game breeding industry. 



The law should provide that the state 

 department shall issue permits without 

 charge to all land owners and lessees 

 who wish to produce game ; that those 

 who produce game may sell the food un- 

 der simple regulations, requiring its iden- 

 tification, to dealers licensed and regu- 

 lated by the state. Live game and eggs 

 for propagation purposes should be free- 

 ly sold at any time. 



Since there is a big demand for game, 

 alive and dead, and for eggs there can 

 be no doubt many land owners will be 

 willing to produce the game and it is a 

 simple business proposition that game 

 will be produced abundantly when il 

 pays to produce it and the people know 

 how to do it. 



The state wardens should police the 

 public waters and parks and wild lands 

 where the public shoot and the land own- 

 ers who wish to do so should produce 

 game abundantly and profitably on lands 

 which they own. A state department 

 whose activities can be conducted on 

 these lines will be of great economic im- 

 portance to all of the people. A state 

 department designed only to collect as 

 many license fees and fines as possible 

 and to expend all of the money for sal- 

 aries and expenses can not possibly save 

 the game and certainly it never will make 



the game an abundant and profitable food 

 as it should be for all of the people. 



The University of South Carolina 

 quickly will verify our statement that 

 where the checks to increase are multi- 

 plied (shooting, for example) the game 

 must vanish if no one is permitted to 

 look after it profitably and properly, 

 which means the control of the natural 

 enemies in order to make a place for the 

 shooting and the proper feeding and care 

 of the game which is required to keep 

 it plentiful if large quantities are util- 

 ized as food. , 



Professor Needham, of Cornell Agri- 

 cultural College, has well said the farmer 

 should have the right to produce any 

 plant or animal on his farm and it seems 

 perfectly logical to say that many will 

 do so in South Carolina when it is prof- 

 itable to breed game. 



A state department which will encour- 

 age food production on the farms and 

 which will police the game on public 

 lands and waters can be made quite 

 worth while, and it should be liberally 

 supported just as agricultural depart- 

 ments are. 



A state department which simply exe- 

 cutes a lot of laws creating many new 

 crimes and which does not can not save 

 thq game well may be abolished. 



Oysters, Fish and Clams. 



Mr. Morrison of South Carolina says 

 that his object in introducing the bill to 

 abolish the office of chief game warden 

 and the board of fisheries is because 

 under the management of the chief game 

 warden the game has been swept out of 

 the state. He points out that the terrapin 

 has been swept out and says the revenue 

 from clams is today $19 and the oysters 

 are now being fast depleted, swept from 

 our shores. 



The trouble is the departments are ex- 

 pected to perform an impossibility. If 

 every one gathers and sells the oysters, 

 clams and terrapin and no one looks af- 

 ter them properly the result must be ex- 

 termination. 



Some years ago there was great alarm 

 in Baltimore about the vanishing oysters. 

 Today oysters are produced abundantly 



