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The Sale of Game. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 



130 Nassau Street, New York. 



November 15, 1916. 

 Mr. Geo. D. Pratt, 



Conservation Commissioner, 

 Albany, New York. 

 Dear Sir : 



We received a letter today from an 

 Illinois member of our Game Conserva- 

 tion Society, in which he says he has six 

 hundred mallards unsold. These birds 

 were reared by him from purchased 

 stock and I write to ask if he can sell 

 them to the New York hotels, provided, 

 he has a certificate from the state game 

 officer of Illinois, that he is the owner 

 of the birds and has the right to sell 

 them. We are advising our members to 

 live up to the laws whatever they are, 

 but it seems a hardship for people not 

 to be able to sell their food to the New 

 York market. There seems to be an 

 over-abundance of wild ducks in many 

 parts of the country which is largely 

 due to the activity of our members. We 

 would like to use some of these ducks 

 at our game dinner, but we will not 

 accept them unless it is legal to serve 

 them in New York. 



Last year we had many wild turkeys 

 donated by our members in several 

 states for our dinner, but we declined 

 to use these after your department de- 

 cided they could not be served at a hotel 

 dinner. You will be interested to learn 



that early reports coming to our game 

 census indicate that our members will 

 have over a million more birds than 

 they had last year, in spite of many 

 hardships imposed by law which it seems 

 to us can be avoided. 



We have heard it said that we are 

 in favor of the dealers and the inference 

 is given out that we would favor their 

 violating the laws. This is untrue, of 

 course ; we have an absolute rule that 

 we will not accept an advertisement from 

 a dealer who violates a game law, no 

 matter how absurd it may be, and that 

 we will give publicity, as we have done, 

 to those who violate the laws. We are 

 in a very good position to help execute 

 them. 



It seems to us that if a state officer 

 will give a certificate to identify the 

 birds, stating that they are legitimate 

 food and 'if your department has notice 

 of the shipment and directs how they 

 can be sold in New York, this will be 

 a substantial compliance with the New 

 York statute. We are inclined to doubt 

 if the state has the right to prohibit 

 certain breeders from selling their food 

 and shipping it under the inter-state 

 commerce laws so long as it permits 

 other breeders to sell their food. We 

 shall advise our member just what you 

 say on this subject and, if it is de- 

 cided that these ducks cannot come to 

 the New York market, they can stay 

 out until the wave of common sense 



