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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1916. 



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Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries 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. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



We hope that "some disappointments" 

 for game breeders in California soon 

 will be legislated out of existence. See 

 the letter from the California game of- 

 ficer in "The Rahlman Case," printed 

 in this issue. 



The people of California should re- 

 member* at all times that eggs taken 

 from the water in an irrigated field, 

 after the mother quail has been com- 

 pelled to desert her nest, belong to the 

 people, "as a whole." That it is wrong 

 to have quail hatched from such eggs 

 in possession for commercial purposes. 

 See the Case of Mary Rahlman in this 

 issue. Great are some of the game laws 

 and some of those who execute them ! 



"We are of the opinion that you will 

 be wasting time and money in feeding 

 75 quail." — California State game of- 

 ficer to Mary Rahlman. Hot stuff that ! 



The people, "as a whole," are begin- 

 ning to learn why they no longer have 

 quail on toast. The people, "as a 

 whole," own the game, but some game 

 officers believe they hold it in trust for 

 those who shoot for fun and do not 

 wish the people to have any game to 

 eat even if it be produced by industry. 



Truly said, the dean of American 

 sportsmen, Charles Hallock, "We need a 



revolution of thought' and a revival of 

 common sense." 



"Those birds (quail) are the property 

 of the state, simply held by various 

 people for scientific purposes." 



What can be more scientific than the 

 preparation of a quail for the toast by 

 a competent chef? "Man may live 

 without knowledge, live without books ; 

 but civilized man can not live without 

 cooks." See the Rahlman correspond- 

 ence in this issue. 



A WORD TO "THE PEOPLE AS A 

 WHOLE." 



We hope the people of California, "as 

 a whole," will instruct their representa- 

 tives when they assemble that it is high 

 time to permit industrious breeders to 

 take as many birds alive for propagation 

 as the sportsmen are now permitted to 

 destroy. Both are a part of the peo- 

 ple "as a whole." It should not be legal 

 to destroy and illegal to create. One 

 trouble is that the state game officers 

 seem to have mistaken game owned by 

 individuals for game owned by the state. 

 Some of the "people as a whole" would 

 like to take their share of the state 

 property alive instead of dead, in order 

 that they may multiply the species and 

 see that others of "the people as a whole" 

 have a taste of the game they are said 

 to own. Game is very good to eat. This 

 suggests that all the game breeders' laws 

 which have been enacted (the Talbot law 

 as well as ours) are defective in that 

 they do not make provision for the tak'- 

 ing of stock birds by reputable breeders 

 who soon will show thousands of birds 

 on small areas if they be permitted to 



do so. 



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THE DISCUSSION OF DIFFER- 

 ENCES. 



We admire a man who differs with us 

 and who says so in the magazine, where 

 any one can discuss any subject inter- 

 esting to game breeders. 



We have a small opinion of a fellow 

 who goes sneaking about misrepresent- 

 ing the magazine and advising people 

 not to read it or to advertise in it. . We 

 advise our readers to read what Mr. 



