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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1916. 



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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. 



THE NEW TREATY. 



We congratulate the American Pro- 

 tective Association and the Audubon 

 Association on account of the remark- 

 able convention they were instrumental 

 m securing between the United States 

 and Canada. This is the result of years 

 ■ of labor and the expenditure of much 

 money, no doubt, and we sincerely hope 

 the treaty will result in accomplishing 

 all that those interested believe it will 

 accomplish. This great convention long 

 will be known as the supreme culmina- 

 tion of the laudable efforts which have 

 been made to save the game and non- 

 game birds from extinction. 

 _ Since under the terms of the conven- 

 tion it will be necessary for both coun- 

 tries to enact suitable statutes to carry 

 the agreement into effect, we wish to 

 suggest that these laws be made simple, 

 uniform, universal and that they be made 

 easy to understand. We hope the new 

 statutes may contain also provisions that 

 the new restrictions shall not be applied 

 to game birds produced by industry un- 

 til such birds depart from the control 

 or premises of their owners and become 

 migratory. Otherwise the new game 

 laws may be used to prevent the annual 

 production of millions of game birds 

 and to destroy an industry which the 

 late Judge Beaman well termed, "One 

 of the important coming industries of 

 the country." 



Our readers now own many thousands 

 of wood ducks and soon they will pro- 

 duce millions of these valuable food- 

 birds, provided they be not prevented 

 from so doing by law. Many of these 

 birds have been reared from stock birds 

 and eggs purchased in Beligum and 

 other foreign countries where they have 

 no treaties or other laws prohibiting the 

 rearing, selling and eating of wood- 

 ducks and other desirable foods. 



We are for the treaty, enthusiastically 

 for it, provided the laws enacted to carry 

 it into effect be not so drawn as to pro- 

 tect the wood-duck "off the face of the 

 earth." We helped to secure a law pro- 

 hibiting the shooting of wild turkeys at 

 all times, but the wild turkeys became 

 extinct in the State after the law was 

 enacted. They have been restored by 

 our readers who now own hundreds of 

 wild turkeys. 



The last wild buffalo in Colorado was 

 killed after a law was enacted protect- 

 ing the bison at all times. One of our 

 readers now offers to sell buffalo in car- 

 load lots. 



The heath-hen became extinct in New 

 York after a law was enacted prohibit- 

 ing the shooting of heath hens. 



Breeders w^ill not continue to breed 

 wood-duck and other fowls if the laws 

 be made to prevent their shooting, sell- 

 ing and eating them. 



They will produce millions of wood- 

 ducks and other food fowls provided it 

 pays to do so. 



We hope the laws made to carry the 

 treaty into effect will provide that birds 

 produced by industry are exempt. 



THE EFFECT OF GOOD LAWS. 



The immediate effect of good laws 

 making game breeding legal and encour- 

 aging the new industry is evidenced in 

 many stories written by men and women 

 in all parts of the country and printed 

 in this issue. 



All of these stories indicate a healthy! 

 interest in and enthusiasm about game" 

 breeding. 



Mr. W. R. Hinde, one of our Iowa: 

 members, distinctly points out the rapid] 

 increase in the numbers of game birds! 



