THE GAME BREEDER 



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Talbot says in this issue. He may be 

 right. We may be wrong. We are quite 

 sure we both want fewer and simpler 

 laws and "more game." We hope to 

 see the breeders pay nothing for a li- 

 cense, as they do in Massachusetts. We 

 would prefer to see the license and reg- 

 ulations applied to the dealers as they 

 are in other countries. We have doubted 

 the possibifity of putting our preference 

 in the law books at present. 



GAME BREEDING ACTIVITY. 



As we anticipated, the opening of the 

 New York market to game bred in other 

 states has resulted in great activity 

 throughout the country as the good news 

 becomes known. Many new breeders are 

 starting. Many old ones are increasing 

 their output. All report a demand far 

 exceeding the supply. Not a week 

 passes without our helping some new 

 breeders to start and often we help to 

 create new game breeding clubs where 

 the shooting will be lively. Observing 

 the ratio of increase, we predict, with- 

 out hesitation, that in three years 

 America will be the biggest game pro- 

 ducing country in the world. 



TRAPS AND TRAPPING. 



There is a big demand for informa- 

 tion about traps and trapping. Vermin 

 is reported very abundant everywhere 

 and very destructive. We find it dif- 

 ficult to answer our mail about this sub- 

 ject. We shall run during the coming 

 year a series of illustrated articles about 

 trapping vermin, written by the best 

 American and English writers. 



THE CONTROL OF GAME 

 ENEMIES. 



In announcing an important series 

 of articles about the control of game 

 enemies, we wish to make it plain that 

 The Game Breeder will treat this sub- 

 ject fairly. We are well aware that the 

 indiscriminate destruction of even the 

 species known to be harmful should not 

 be tolerated. We believe that even 

 some of the harmful species may be 

 spared on game farms. We know, how- 

 ever, that game farming cannot be suc- 



cessfully carried on unless the devour- 

 ing hordes of enemies which are sure 

 to gather where game is plentiful be 

 controlled. 



Often we have referred to the scien- 

 tific fact that if we add to the checks 

 to the increase of any species it surely 

 will decrease in numbers and when the 

 checks are serious the species becomes 

 extinct. Game farmers can not afford 

 to lose their eggs, their young game 

 or their stock birds. They surely should 

 not be compelled by law to entertain 

 enemies which will put them out of 

 business. 



THE DEATH OF JUDGE D. C. 

 BEAMAN. 



Many of our readers must feel, as 

 the writer does, that they knew Judge 

 Beaman, although they never met him. 

 He was the author of the first game 

 breeders' bill, which became and is the 

 law of Colorado. He informed us that 

 the law worked satisfactorily not only 

 in relation to game, but that the breed- 

 ing and sale of trout had resulted in 

 an abundance of this desirable food in 

 the local markets "every day in the 

 year." 



Judge Beaman was an able lawyer, a 

 lover of outdoor sport, and he became 

 a member of one of the game and fish 

 clubs which was organized under the 

 law he secured. He strongly believed in 

 the idea that we had too many laws and 

 too little game and game fish. The prog- 

 ress of the "more game movement" in 

 America largely has been due to his in- 

 fluence. 



He was a member of the Game Con- 

 servation Society and he was much in- 

 terested in The Game Breeder and its 

 work. His endorsement of the mag- 

 azine, printed on another page, was writ- 

 ten and printed at a time when it 

 seemed doubtful if game and fish breed- 

 ing ever would be encouraged or per- 

 mitted in many states. He was an earn- 

 est and able advocate of "one of the 

 most important and coming industries of 

 the nation." He lived to hear Charles 

 Hallock announce that the victory had 

 been won. We regret that he could not 



