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many (lucks were sold for $3.25 to $4.50 

 per pair. 



The best prices for quail and prairie 

 grouse are paid for live birds. There is 

 a demand for hundreds of thousands of 

 birds and the quail sell for $25 per dozen 

 and often more in large lots. Prairie 

 grouse will sell for $5.00 to $10.00 per 

 pair in large lots and for better prices in 

 small lots. There is also a big demand 

 for deer. They sell for $25 and $35. 



The Treaty for the Protection of 

 Migratory Birds. 



The United States and Canada have 

 made a treaty under which the two coun- 

 tries are to regulate the taking of migra- 

 tory birds. The American Protective 

 Association and the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies have been 

 working hard to secure this the most 

 important game law ever enacted in the 

 world. 



The Constitution of the United States 

 provides that all treaties made or which 

 shall be made under the authority of the 

 United States shall be the supreme law 

 of the land; and the judges in every 

 State shall be bound thereby, anything 

 in the Constitution or laws of any State 

 to the contrary, notwithstanding. 



Article I defines migratory game 

 birds; the swans, cranes, rails (including 

 coots and gallinules), shore birds and 

 pigeons and doves. The migratory in- 

 sectivorous and other non-game birds, 

 also, are listed. 



Article II establishes close seasons on 

 migratory game birds between March 

 10 and September 1, except that the 

 closed season on shorebirds in the mari- 

 time provinces of Canada, and in those 

 States of the United States bordering on 

 the Atlantic Ocean, which are situated 

 wholly or in part north of Chesapeake 

 Bay, shall be between February 1 and 

 August 15, and that Indians may take 

 at any time scoters for food, but not 

 for sale. 



Article III provides for a continuous 

 close season, during 10 years, on band- 

 tailed pigeons, little brown, sandhill and 

 whooping cranes, swans, curlew and all 

 shorebirds (except the black-breasted 

 and golden plover, Wilson snipe, wood- 

 cock, and greater and lesser yellowlegs). 



Article IV provides that special pro- 

 tection shall be given the wood-duck and 

 the eider duck either (1) by a close sea- 

 son extending over a period of at least 

 five years or (2) by the establishment 

 of refuges, or (3) by such other regula- 

 tions as may be deemed appropriate. 



Article V prohibits the taking of nests 

 or eggs, except for scientific propagating 

 purposes. 



Article VI provides against the ship- 

 ping or export of migratory birds and 

 eggs except for scientific or propagation 

 purposes during the closed seasons. 



Article VII provides for permits to 

 kill birds when injurious to agricultural 

 or other interests. 



Article VIII provides that the con- 

 tracting parties agree to take or propose 

 to their respective law-making bodies the 

 necessary measures for insuring the ex- 

 ecution of the convention. 



Why Not Game Shooting? 



Trap shooting clubs provide their 

 shooting grounds and their targets. Some 

 of these clubs have extended their activi- 

 ties and now provide bird shooting 

 grounds and game birds for their mem- 

 bers. In all cases they keep up their 

 trap shooting and find it improves their 

 field shooting. 



A sportsman at one of these game 

 shooting clubs said to the writer that 

 he had shot more ammunition at the traps , 

 that day than he had in six years before 

 the game shooting was undertaken. He 

 found the ducks and pheasants difficult 

 and was getting ready for October, he 

 observed, when he proposed to get his 

 share of the abundant game. 



Big boxes of Remington cartridges 

 were piled high on the porch, openings 

 being left for the windows, and it was 

 evident that this place would sound like 

 "a continuous fourth of July," as the 

 president of the Tunxis Club described 

 tlic noise at that interesting shooting 

 ground in a letter to The Game Breeder. 



A Pheasant Book. 



Mr. E. A. Quarles has sent us a very 

 good little book describing how , they 

 raise pheasants at the New Jersey and 

 New York State game farms. The book 



