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THE GAME BREEDER 



live to see America become the biggest 

 game producing country in the world, as 

 it promises soon to be, largely on account 

 of his -work and influence. 



American sportsmen and game breed- 

 ers will read with sorrow the announce- 

 ment of the death of Judge Beaman. 

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MORE MEMBERS. 



We are quite sure our members will 

 respond promptly to our suggestion for 

 rapidly doubling the membership. Pres- 

 ent indications are that "the new issue 

 will be over-subscribed," as they say in 

 the stock market. Two readers sent 

 nine new subscribers last week, which 

 will more than offset the inactivity of a 

 member here and there. 



Hand-rearing Quail. 



Some of the pictures to illustrate the 

 article about hand-rearing quail prom- 

 ised for this number did not arrive in 

 time for reproduction; some were not 

 as good as we hoped to get. The ar- 

 ticles are ready for the printer and will 

 be published in November. There will 

 be working drawings for a quail brooder 

 Avhich has produced excellent results for 

 two seasons, and some statistical matter 

 of especial interest to sportsmen and 

 commercial breeders. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor The Game Breeder: 



My son secured a good position as 

 game keeper through The Game Breeder, 

 and I write to thank you for helping 

 him get it. 



M. Flannery. 

 Connecticut. 



The Marshall Poultry Farm. 

 Editor The Game Breeder: 



Enclosed find $1.00 for The Game 

 Breeder for another year. I wish to 

 keep posted, if I do nothing else. At 

 this place the wild ducks hatch fairly 

 well with five drakes to thirty ducks, 

 although I surmise that some of the 

 purest Mallards do not lay at all. 



After the young ducks are hatched, 

 they are all right until they are about 

 one week old. Then they begin to 



dwindle and seem to get smaller and die 

 one at a time. Some may last three 

 or four weeks. I have ail kinds of grain 

 for poultry, ground, cracked and whole, 

 but none of it seems to do. Anything 

 that you can suggest will be welcome. 

 Marshall Poultry Farm. 



Iowa. 



[Write to The Spratts Patent, Ltd., Newark, 

 New Jersey, and ask them about their meal for 

 young ducks and for their printed matter about 

 how to rear them. We have reared thousands 

 of ducks, using this food prepared as directed. 

 When the young ducks can have access to shal- 

 low marsh water, in warm weather, we have 

 found that they procured many water insects, 

 young frogs, etc., and some green vegetation 

 to supplement the artificial food. We raised 

 several thousand ducks one season with hardly 

 any loss on such ground, feeding the Spratts 

 foods. The hens were confined in coops on 

 the bank, wired against vermin, and a narrow 

 wire in the edge of the water prevented the 

 ducks from going to deep water. In warm 

 weather the ducks will thrive, if given plenty 

 of shade near the coops.] 



FARMERS TAKE TO TRAP- 

 SHOOTING. 

 Scarcity of Game in Many Quarters 

 Has Caused Farmers to Make Use 

 of Guns in Other Ways. 



By Peter P. Carney. 



The other day a well-known agricul- 

 tural publication man remarked, when 

 told that farmers engaged in trapshoot- 

 ing, that he was putting that fact down 

 as one thing he learned that day. 



If farmers can be advancing so fast 

 in modern methods and city pleasures 

 that the agricultural press can't keep up 

 with them, then it seems logical to ad- 

 mit that the city cousins who imagined 

 all a farmer did "was work, eat and 

 sleep" are just waiting for advice. 



The fact is that along with other pleas- 

 ures, farmers are taking an active in- 

 terest in trapshooting. And why 

 shouldn't they? Nearly all farmhouses 

 have guns as a portion of their furni- 

 ture. Nearly all farmers have done 

 more or less shooting, but at the pres- 

 ent time in many states game laws are 

 so rigidly enforced that "open" seasons 

 are very short. Hence clay targets are 

 the victims of the guns. 



As hardly any live settlement is now 



