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THE GAME BREEDER 



State. We have refused permits to all holders 

 of breeder's licenses. 



Yours truly, I 



Fish and Game Commission, 

 H. G. Pritchard, 



Assistant. 



At this stage of the game (August 

 10) Miss Mary RaMman wrote to M. 

 F. Newbert, president of the Fish and 

 Game Commission, Sacramento, Cali- 

 fornia, asking for a permit to keep 75 

 quail for exhibition purposes. She in- 

 formed the commission that she had 

 written to Mr. Pritchard asking for a 

 permit, and that he only wanted to per- 

 mit her to keep a limited number, while 

 she wished to keep the seventy-five. 



She signed the letter, 



Mary Rahlman, 



Member of the Game Conservation 

 Society. 



August 21, 1916, H. G. Pritchard, Assistant, 

 wrote to Miss Rahlman, from Los Angeles as 

 follows : 



"Your letter of August 10th, written to Mr. 

 F. M. Newbert, of Sacramento, has been re- 

 ferred to this office, as this office has charge 

 of all fish and game matters in Southern 

 California. 



"Now, in this latetr letter you ask for a 

 permit to keep 75 quail for exhibition pur- 

 poses. In your letter of August 5, addressed 

 to us, you ask for a permit to keep these 75 

 quail, stating that next year you would apply 

 for a game breeder's license. This would nat- 

 urally lead us to believe that you expect to 

 use the birds in question to stock your pro- 

 posed game farm. 



"We will give you a permit for these birds 



FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES ONLY 

 under the following conditions : 



"That you do not dispose of any of the 

 birds by selling, trading or bartering without 

 written permission from this commission, and 

 render to us, at any time we may wish, an 

 accounting of the birds you have in your 

 possession. 



"If this is satisfactory to you we will issue 

 a permit as above stated, but we cannot permit 

 you or any one else to start a game farm 

 for profit with the native birds of this State, 

 as you informed me, on my visit, that it was 

 your intention to start a game farm." 

 The Permit. 



August 24, 1916, the following permit 

 was issued to Miss Mary R'ahlman and 

 her brother: 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 



In accordance with law, permission is hereby 

 granted to Rahlman & Rahlman to keep in 

 captivity, for exhibition purposes only, 75 Val- 

 ley Quail; the same not to be disposed of 

 without written permission from the Fish and 

 Game Commission. 



By order of the Board. 



Fish and Game Comraisgion, 

 M. J. Connell, 

 Commissioner. 



I 



It is to be hoped that the California 

 laws soon will be amended to pertnit 

 breeders to breed and sell all species of 

 game. If a license is required there 

 should be no charge for it. The law 

 should also provide for the taking of 

 stock birds and eggs for propagation 

 purposes by reputable game farmers who 

 undertake to breed and sell game. It is 

 a pity the Fish and Game Commission 

 is compelled to execute absurd laws. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Good Shooting. 



We would advise our readers to write 

 to Mr. Jasper White, WaterHly, about 

 the good shooting there. We have heard 

 that this is a most interesting place to 

 shoot, and readers can learn much about 

 the wild duck foods, since Mr. White 

 is a large dealer in Sago pond weed 

 and others. It is an easy trip by boat 

 or rail to Norfolk, Virginia, and from 

 there it is a short sail to Waterlily. 



The sportsman will see on the jour- 

 ney the famous Ragged Island Club and 



many other good duck clubs, and he will 

 surely have a good time and good shoot- 

 ing at Waterlily. Mr. White's adver- 

 tisement is on the classified page. 

 More Muskrats. 

 The muskrat farmers of Wisconsin 

 took 58,435 of these animals during the 

 year ending June 30. This is the first 

 year under the new Wisconsin law pro- 

 viding for this industry. The farmer 

 doing the largest business reported the 

 sale of 12,125 muskrat hides for 

 $5,303.60. 



