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THE GAME BREEDER 



served, and the bag limit recently has 

 been doubled. An interesting fact is that 

 the quail shooting is good on a large area 

 where any one can shoot by reason of the 

 overflow from the "noisy sanctuaries," 

 and quail shooting is prohibited in other 

 parts of the State, as it is in Ohio and 

 other States. 



Many of the country clubs have trap 

 shooting also, and, in fact, traps and 

 clay birds are to be found at all of the 

 game clubs. 



Oil and Sea Birds. 



Members of the expeditionary force 

 of the United States Marine Corps, on 

 duty at Puerta Plata, Santo Domingo, 

 who visited the sea shore near the place 

 of the Memphis disaster, report that 

 many sea gulls and water fowl were de- 

 stroyed by the oil pumped overboard by 

 the Memphis, Castine and other Amer- 

 ican warships when the storm struck 

 them. The oil stuck to the wings of the 

 birds and prevented flight. 



We printed some time ago the story 

 of the destruction of thousands of wild 

 ducks which flew down to a lake of oil 

 in Mexico made by the overflow from 

 gushing oil wells. 



New Jersey. 



A lady in New Jersey who wished to 

 undertake game breeding wrote to one 

 of the lady members of the Game Con- 

 servation Society and purchased a few 

 pheasant eggs. She was informed after 

 the eggs arrived that she must take out 

 a license which would cost $5 (more 

 than the amount paid for the eggs) ; that 

 this license would expire December 31 

 and must be renewed before she could 

 expect to realize on the birds reared; 

 that before she attempted to sell her 

 game she must first offer it to the State 

 at a reasonable price. She decided not 

 to experiment with game and "passed the 

 eggs to a friend who is a voter." In 

 concluding her letter she wisely remarks : 

 "The fools are not all dead yet, are 

 they?" 



The New Jersey law undoubtedly de- 

 preciates the value of the farm owned 

 by the New Jersey lady and it evidently 



has put an end to the idea of having 

 game on this farm. Our advice is to 

 ask the "voter" to help have some non- 

 sense removed from the New Jersey 

 statute books. Why laws should be en- 

 acted to depreciate farm values and to 

 prevent an important food producing in- 

 dustry we fail to understand. 



In Massachusetts ladies as well as 

 voters are permitted to rear all sorts of 

 game on their farms and to sell the food. 

 There is no charge for the license and 

 the State game department which en- 

 courages the industry has become of 

 great economic importance. Pheasants 

 and other game are sold and eaten and 

 the shooting throughout the State has 

 been much improved. 



The Necessity for Breeding Stock. 



One of our readers says : "I have 

 been pointing out the injustice of allow- 

 ing the man who pays a license to go 

 out and kill his bag limit, and the laws 

 provide that that is the only way he 

 can get the birds (kill them), but they 

 will not allow him to take live birds in- 

 stead. 



The state surely can get some great 

 benefit from any birds taken alive, but 

 it will never increase the bird supply by 

 saying that the hunter must kill his 

 game. 



I have spread the right argument all 

 over the state, and it is beginning to 

 receive due consideration. Your book- 

 let, "Game Farming for Profit and 

 Pleasure," issued by the Hercules 

 Powder Company, has done the work, 

 and I am certainly grateful to you and 

 to the Hercules people for the six hun- 

 dred or so that I have distributed. 



"More" Rabbits for Allies. 



Five hundred thousand rabbits which 

 will furnish food for the allies' armies 

 comprised a part of the cargo of the 

 British steamer Cumberland which ar- 

 rived here (Norfolk, Va.) today from 

 Wellington, N. Z., to coal. The ship is 

 en route to Liverpool. — The Globe, N,Y. 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



