130 THE GAME BREEDER 



T!^5 Game Breeder 



PuBLisHKD Monthly 



THE NEW YORK MARKET. 



Game breeders in the West and South 

 have complained about the difficulty of 



sending the wild ducks, which they have 



Edited by dwight w. HUNTINGTON ^^^^ j^ j^rge numbcrs to the New York 



market. When a large number of 



NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1917. ducks are shot in a day the guests of 



the preserve owner take a few home 



TERMS: t)ut many are left to be sold. The birds 



10 Cents a Copy— $1.00 a year in Advance. do not sell_ well in rural markets but 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. there is 3. big demand for them in NcW 



To All Foreign Countries and Canada. $. »;■ york. When the birds are shipped by 



Z. ~ ~ I ' a reputable breeder who is willing to 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. ./ ,, -m -vr i £c •„ 



PUBLISHERS. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YORK "otify the Ncw York game officers in 



D. w. Hu.T,KOTo.. President. advance of the shipment it would seem 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, that the birds might be safely sold in 



J. c. Hcntington, Secretary, the best market. If it is deemed nec- 



Telephone. Beekman 3685. CSSary tO pUt tagS OU them thcSC might 



well be attached after their arrival in 



See that the laws are amended so New York by an officer who easily 



that the breeders can secure stock birds could tag them after evidence of their 



and in two years America will be the origin was presented, 



biggest game producing country in the In England where game is abundant 



world. \i J and cheap, the dealers are licensed and 



= held to a strict accountability. Com- 



The Evening World, N. Y., says that paratively little poached or stolen game 



the criterion of a competence in America is sold and the dealer who violates the 



is not evidenced by the ownership of an laws loses his license and the right to 



automobile, but by the having of eggs sell game. 



for breakfast. We are quite sure this system will 



= work well if it be given a trial in New 



It will not be long before an abund- York. There are very few dealers who 



ance of cheap game in our markets re- would be willing to take the chance of 



duces not only the price of eggs for losing the right to sell game and it 



breakfast, but the price of meat for din- should be an easy matter to inspect them 



ner. and to see that only game legally shipped 



= be sold. 



The fact that common sense laws have It would be far better that some of 



resulted in a big production of wild the wild game be sold illegally than that 



ducks, pheasants and deer indicates that the breeding industry should be de- 



the laws should be amended in the stroyed. The loss of a few wild birds 



states which limit the production of would simply indicate that the people 



these foods so as to encourage the profi- had a taste of the game they are said 



table production of our indigenous to own and such losses should not occur 



game, the quail, grouse, teal and other often, if at all, if the fines be large and 



birds which most need the breeder's at- the offender be put out of business, 



tention. There can be no doubt that the mar- 



= ket will be fully supplied by breeders. 



The Game Conservation Society rep- provided they be given every encour- 



resents a big industry of vast economic agement and many innocent persons 



importance and it is pleasing to observe should not be made to suffer on account 



that the last state game officers rapidly of the fear that one or more illegal sales 



are becoming heartily in favor of the may be made. Only one case has oc- 



more game movement. curred in several years which required 



