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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Emted by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, MARCH, 1919. 



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Postage free to all subscribers in the United Stapes. 

 To All ForeignCourrtries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



We hope some of our South Carolina 

 readers will write to Representative J. B. 

 Morrison and urge him not to insist on 

 abolishing the state game department but 

 to see that a law be enacted requiring the 

 department to encourage game breeding 

 on the farms and the proper policing of 

 the game on public lands and waters. 



TRAPPING GAME. 



In New York not long ago a fine of 

 $15,000 was imposed and paid because a 

 landowner trapped a few wild ducks for 

 breeding purposes. The Game Breeder 

 gave full publicity to the outrage in the 

 name of the law. Today any farmer 

 or preserve owner in New York can 

 trap any species of game for breeding 

 purposes upon payment of $1.00 for a 

 license to do so, and the United States 

 issues permits without charge to take 

 migratory water fowl for breeding pur- 

 poses. We are not lobbyists, but we 

 observe with pleasure the effect which 

 our pubilicity and comment has on the 

 game laws. Rapidly they are changed to 

 meet the views of breeders as expressed 

 in the magazine. In this connection we 

 wish to give credit to readers who write 

 for the magazine pointing out legal 

 wrongs which should be made right. 

 These opinions of others when we give 



them publicity have more weight often 

 than anything we can say. 



As an illustration, when General Win- 

 gate, of the Wyandanch Club, wrote 

 that it was desirable to take up quail in 

 exposed situations and to feed them in 

 the winter in places where they would be 

 safe from deep snow, he pointed out 

 that it was illegal in New York thus to 

 save the quail. 



Now it is legal in New York to trap 

 and to thus save the quail in winter and 

 also to trap any species of game for 

 breeding purposes. 



FARM GAME. 



The farmers throughout America are 

 beginning to take a decided interest in 

 the game laws as they affect the value 

 of farm property and country living. 

 Professor Bailey of Cornell Agricultural 

 College, writing to the editor of The 

 Game Breeder said the farmers' inter- 

 ests should be considered in making our 

 game laws. More recently Professor 

 Needham of the same college said the 

 farmer should have the right to produce 

 any kind of plant or animal and that he 

 should possess his farm in peace. 



Often we have pointed out that the at- 

 tempt made by state game departments 

 to rent the shooting on the farms for 

 $1.00 per year to all applicants only 

 could result in a failure to preserve field 

 sports or even to save the game from 

 extinction in closely cultivated regions. 



The farmers are opposed to having 

 bands of licensed trespassers shoot up 

 their farms. At a hearing before Gov- 

 ernor Glynn some years ago when he 

 was the governor of New York a state 

 senator spoke with much emphasis on 

 this subject. He said the farmers in his 

 district were opposed to sport and tres- 

 passing sportsmen. Horses, cattle and 

 poultry had been shot on the farms in 

 his district, fences had been broken 

 down, gates left open and other dam- 

 age had resulted from the farms being 

 raided by licensed sportsmen. 



Farmers who find their trespass signs 

 are not heeded always are ready to put 

 game birds on the song bird list and to 

 put an end to sport for terms of years or 

 forever. 



