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THE GAME BREEDER 



on leased beds and the industry is prof- 

 itable. Baltimore did not loose its oys- 

 ters but it became a big oyster market. 

 South Carolina can become a big game 

 and fish market. 



All over the country the tendency is 

 to encourage the people to breed fish in 

 ponds and streams for profit and for 

 food. The United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries supplies stock fish and advice 

 as to the best fish for the different wa- 

 ters and how to produce them. 



If the South Carolina- laws can be 

 made so as to encourage the profitable 

 breeding of fish, oysters and game the 

 departments can supervise and regulate 

 the industry and they will become of 

 great economic importance to all of the 

 people. 



As a football of politics the game eas- 

 ily can be kicked off the face of the 

 earth and the oysters and fish can be 

 expected to go with it. Wardens who 

 only put in their time collecting licenses 

 and occasionally arresting people who 

 fail to pay never can be expected to 

 show any game or fish or oysters for the 

 people to eat. 



A little ordinary common business 

 sense easily can be applied to the subject 

 by a statesman who will find out what 

 the trouble is and will apply the proper 

 remedy. Many hundreds of thousands 

 of game birds now are produced on game 

 farms in America and some advertisers 

 in The Game Breeder are prepared to 

 offer over 25,000 eggs. America soon 

 will be the biggest game producing coun- 

 try in the world provided the state game 

 departments encourage game breeding on 

 liberal terms. The oysters and the fish 

 are profitable and in no danger of ex- 

 tinction in places where they are properly 

 looked after. 



Advice to Mr. Morrison. 



We would strongly advise Mr. Morri- 

 son not to abolish the departments but 

 to so frame the laws of his state that 

 they will become of great economic im- 

 portance to all of the people. The mar- 

 kets easily can be kept full of cheap oys- 

 ters, fish and game when the subject is 

 handled by a statesman who will advocate 

 common sense laws. 



Any one who can quickly fill the mar- 

 kets of South Carolina with cheap game 

 and who can attract hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars to the farmers of the 

 state for game birds for breeding pur- 

 poses will cause the game always to re- 

 main plentiful and cheap and the states- 

 manlike performance surely will be rec- 

 ognized by the people. 



Laws permitting and encouraging the 

 breeding of pheasants and certain species 

 of ducks have resulted in hundreds of 

 thousands of pheasants and ducks being 

 bred annually on American game farms 

 and preserves. 



Laws preventing the profitable breed- 

 ing of quail and grouse have resulted in 

 the extermination of these birds on vast 

 areas and the prohibition of grouse and 

 quail shooting in many states. We are 

 obliged to buy our quail in Mexico. 



Laws encouraging the profitable breed- 

 ing of quail and grouse by game farmers 

 and sportsmen soon will result in the 

 quail and grouse becoming tremendously 

 abundant in many places and the prohibi- 

 tion of shooting no longer will be neces- 

 sary to save the game. 



A limited amount of freedom on Long 

 Island, New York, where quail shooting 

 is permitted has resulted in excellent 

 quail shooting on the numerous club 

 grounds where the sportsmen look after 

 their quail; and quail can be found and 

 shot all over Long Island on lands where 

 anyone can shoot. They always spread 

 out or overflow from protected areas. 



It should be legal everywhere to breed 

 American game birds for sport or profit. 

 Pheasants are excellent game birds but 

 our native quail and grouse are better 

 than pheasants both for sport and for 

 food. They can be produced at a smaller 

 cost than pheasants can be and no good 

 reason can be assigned why quail and 

 grouse breeders should be put out of 

 business by laws prohibiting the shoot- 

 ing, sale and eating of quail and grouse. 



The Socialist. 



As a general thing Socialists are the 

 kind of men who can be made to believe 

 a turkey is all white meat. — Galveston 

 News. 



