T¥. Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, July g, 1915, at the Post Office, New York'City, 



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



VOLUME X 



JANUARY, J9J7 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 4 



Our Game Dinner, 



It was necessary to prepare this num- 

 l)er of the magazine early in order to 

 get the work out of the way before the 

 correspondence and work in preparation 

 for our annual meeting and game din- 

 ner was undertaken. A good amount 

 of game and a good attendance is as- 

 sured at this writing and we shall pub- 

 lish an interesting account of the game 

 dinner in our next issue. 



Five or six state game officers will 

 attend the meeting and there will be 

 many members of the local game clubs 

 and many preserve owners and com- 

 mercial breeders. The meeting prom- 

 ises to be bigger and better than it was 

 last year. Mr. Wm. S. Haskell, attorney, 

 Mr. Fayles, the Secretary of The 

 American Game Protective Association, 

 will represent the Association and the 

 first-named will speak on the new treaty 

 made with Canada for the purpose of 

 protecting migratory birds. Professor 

 Pearson, the Secretary of the Audubon 

 Association, and Dr. H. K. Job, will rep- 

 resent the Audubon Association at the 

 dinner and the last-named will exhibit 

 his remarkable moving pictures made on 

 the Mcllheny preserve in Louisiana. 



The Vermonter. 



We have received the first copy of 

 The Vermonter, the State magazine, 

 which contains much matter of interest 

 to sportsmen. The leading article, 

 *'Our Fish and Game Asset," by Chas. 

 R. Cummings, contains much statistical 

 matter relating to the subject. 



Under the efficient management of 



Commissioner John W, Titcomb, we 

 are told, "Vermonters have seen a de- 

 velopment from a once almost game 

 barren and fished out State to an aver- 

 age annual deer kill of several thousand 

 animals, with unnumbered foxes, coons, 

 skunks, rabbits and squirrels and an in- 

 cidental accumulation of bears, bob- 

 cats and other outlaw 'varmints.' The 

 value of deer killed, at beef prices, has 

 been as high as $60,000; of fur-bearing 

 animals annually secured, $150,000, and 

 of wood-cock, grouse and ducks shot, 

 $40,000." 



Anglers' License in Vermont. 



The last legislature, in Vermont, en- 

 acted an anglers' license law and re- 

 pealed the law for an annual appropria- 

 tion for the maintenance of the fish and 

 game department in all its branches, in- 

 cluding the propagation and distribu- 

 tion of fish. 



The fee for both resident and non- 

 resident licenses is 60 cents, the non- 

 resident being treated just the same as 

 the resident, "because we want to en- 

 courage," says The Vermonter, "people 

 to come here during the fishing season. 

 Along with our scenery and good roads, 

 fishing is one of our greatest attractions." 



(Other States mig-ht well follow the lead of 

 Vermont and encourage the non-residents to 

 shoot and fish within their borders. One of 

 the outrages of the protective system is that 

 it prevents the visiting and shooting and fish- 

 ing which should be encouraged. — Editor.) 



Rabbits Attack a Railroad. 



A cutting sent to The Game I'recdcr. 

 contains the following from Elyria, O. : 



Rabbits were attacking the Wabash 



