T^! Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Enteied as second-class matter. July q, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 



New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME X 



NOVEMBER, I9I6 

 Co) 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 2 



Mexican Quail. 



Quail again are to be imported from 

 Mexico, beginning November 1. We 

 hope quail with stomach aches and other 

 complaints will not be discovered as 

 promptly as they were last year, and 

 that if any diseased quail be discovered 

 this will not be made an excuse to stop 

 the importation of thousands of healthy 

 quail, as was the case last year. Rep- 

 utable dealers should be permitted to 

 ship their birds to their mews and to 

 inspect them after arrival and to sell 

 the healthy birds and to destroy those 

 which may have any disease. 



We had a letter from a Mexican last 

 year who said his quail in large num- 

 bers were running about in his yards 

 before and long after the importation 

 was prohibited. He had about decided 

 to destroy or to liberate his birds be- 

 cause there was no market for them. We 

 shall observe the performances on tlie 

 border this year with interest and in- 

 form our readers of what happens. 



It will not be long before thousands 

 of quail are reared on Western game 

 farms and those wishing to buy live or 

 dead quails will be fully supplied. We 

 are sure our readers will be interested 

 in the stories about quail breeding and 

 quail shooting, which will be published 

 during the year. 



Iowa, 



We were unable to send several hun- 

 dred copies of the September issue to 

 Iowa for special work there because the 

 edition was exhausted a few days after 

 its appearance. We have reprinted part 

 of the matter of especial interest to 

 the people of Iowa, and we will see that 



our agent for that state is fully sup- 

 plied. We predict that this state soon 

 will be a big producer of prairie grouse 

 and quail. 



We are quite sure a good lot of pheas- 

 ants and wild ducks will be reared in 

 Iowa next year. 



Two most important laws have been 

 enacted recently which should be given 

 the widest publicity in the State of Iowa 

 and the other States which have game 

 breeders' laws. 



The Iowa law provides that : 



"Any person desiring to engage in the busi- 

 ness of raising and selling pheasants, wild 

 duck, quail and other game birds or any of 

 them in a wholly enclosed preserve or enclos- 

 ure of which he is the owner or lessee, may 

 make application in writing to the State Fish 

 and Game Warden for a license so to do. 

 That the State Fish and Game Warden, when 

 it shall appear that such application is made 

 in good faith, shall upon the payment of an 

 annual fee of $2 issue to such applicant a 

 breeder's license permitting such applicant to 

 breed and raise the above described game 

 birds, or other game birds, or any of them, on 

 such preserve or enclosure ; and to sell the 

 same alive at any time for breeding or stock- 

 ing purposes; and to kill and use the same; or 

 sell same for food." 



The New York law provides that game 

 produced by breeders in other states, 

 which regulate the industry, may sell the 

 food produced in the New York mar- 

 kets, which, undoubtedly, are the best 

 markets in the world for game. The 

 courts are beginning to hold that any 

 breeder can shoot and sell the game he 

 owns. 



Pheasants sell readily for $4 and $5 a 

 pair in large lots when sold as food. 

 They bring even higher prices when sold 

 alive for propagation. Wild ducks sell 

 readily for $3.00 per jjair and last year 



