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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGMT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1916. 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, I1.25. 



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. 



REFLECTIONS ON THE 

 OUTLOOK. 



We have in our possession an inter- 

 esting letter from a State game officer, 

 written to one of our members, in which 

 the officer says, very frankly, he is op- 

 posed to game breeding because he does 

 not wish to see the people lose their 

 money in something which can not be 

 done. Some people, you know, he adds, 

 have gone into the chicken business and, 

 not knowing anything about it, they have 

 lost their money. As a hunter of quail 

 myself I know that people who go into 

 game breeding will lose their money; 

 hence I am opposed to it, and opposed 

 to game breeders' laws, etc. 



Here we have perfect consistency. The 

 mference is plain that the dear people 

 should be prevented from going into the 

 "chicken buisness" as well as into game 

 breeding because the paternal game of- 

 ficer (salary about $4,000 per annum) 

 fears they may lose their money. 



The game laws everywhere should be 

 amended so as to provide that the State 

 game officers SHALL (note the manda- 

 tory word) issue permits to reputable 

 game breeders permitting them to trap 

 stock for propagation purposes. 



It should not be legal to destroy and 

 illegal to create. 



^ Reports coming to The Game Breeder 

 indicate that it will be perfectly legal to 

 bfeed game for sport and for profit in 



every State in the Union within three 

 months, with possibly one exception. In 

 this one State game breeding is thriv- 

 ing without waiting for any legislation. 

 The people seem to have taken our idea 

 that laws intended to save some of the 

 wild or State game from extinction are 

 not intended to put out of business the 

 citizens who own thousands of game 

 birds and are increasing their numbers 

 for sport and for profit. The legis- 

 lators hardly can be presumed to have 

 any intention of destroying farm values. 



It is fortunate that the courts are 

 beginning to see the difference between 

 the abundant game owned by individuals 

 and the vanishing wild life which is 

 said to belong to the State or the Na- 

 tion — we are not quite sure yet which 

 owns a wild goose flying high. It may 

 be some years before this wild goose 

 question is fully settled, and meantime 

 we have complaints from some of our 

 readers that the wild geese they have 

 purchased and own, did not lay eggs 

 the first season. 



Of course not, say the dealers. Who 

 ever heard of a purchased wild goose 

 laying eggs the first season? And so it 

 is our legal knowledge and our wild- 

 goose intelligence grow apace, and, we 

 may add, the pace has been a merry 

 one since the nation-wide educational 

 advertising campaign of The Hercules 

 Powder Company was begun. Game 

 has increased so rapidly since the ad- 

 vertising appeared that we can almost 

 hear the eggs cracking all over the land 

 just as the farmers hear the corn grow 

 after a rain. 



Next year we shall devote much space 

 to game fishes and ponds and other wa- 

 ters where they can be made profitably 

 plentiful. The fish and our upland in- 

 digenous game will be the two prominent 

 features on our 1917 program. 



OUR ANNUAL GAME DINNER. 



At the dinner this year two educa- 

 tional subjects will be discussed by ex- 

 perts. Our Game Fishes and Fish CuU 

 ture, by Hon. J. W. Titcomb, Fish and 

 Game Commissioner of Vermont, arid 

 one of the leading fish culturists in the 



