134 THE GAME BREEDER 



{Cotitmued from page if2.) We shall publish during the year many 



which have been enacted in many states practical stories about the hatching of 



might well be copied in New York. eggs in incubators, giving in detail the 



The annual game dinner of The Game methods used by successful breeders. We 



Conservation Society promises to be a contemplate the offering of several prizes 



great success, as it was last year. for the best short stories about the use 



A big mail indicates a growing in- of incubators and we will announce these 



terest in game breeding and it seems prizes in an early number, 



likely that every state in the Union will . 



have a sensible ,law encouraging the t^it ^^^^ a • ^u ^ ^ ^ a 



industry within the year. Mallards in the Back Yard. 



Sportsmen throughout the country Editor Game Breeder: 



now realize the impossibility of good At the present time I only have a small 



shooting as a result of protecting game flock of eight mallards which are living 



by laws restricting the season and the in perfect content in a small city back 



bag. Repeatedly they have learned that yard. Although very wild when I first 



any shooting by many guns is disastrous got them they are now becoming quite 



in places where the game is not prop- tame and come running to the door for 



erly looked after and where numerous something to eat every time it is opened, 



cats and dogs are added to the natural I made a small shallow pond, not over 



enemies. ^ six feet in diameter and a foot deep, in 



The nation-wide advertising cam- which they besported themselves until it 



paign of The Hercules Powder Com- froze over. I feed them but twice a day, 



pany has produced results which must giving them, a little lettuce and spinach 



be gratifying to their advertising de- together with a mixture of cracked corn, 



partment. All prejudice against game wheat, oats and barley, 



breeding seems to have disappeared. This is my first experience with wild 



, ducks and I was quite surprised at the 



_ ease with which they are taken care of. 



incubators For Game Eggs. Of course, I have not undertaken as yet 



^ A few years ago marry game breeders ^^e rearing of any young, but expect to 



did not favor the use of incubators for ^o so this coming season and do not an- 



hatching game eggs. Recent experi- ticipate any great difficulty. If I am 



ments, however, have resulted success- successful in breeding mallards in my 



fully and the incubator rapidly is coming rather limited quarters it is my intentions 



into general use on game farms and pre- ^^ experiment with other more difficult 



serves where many thousands of game species and thereby gain some practical 



birds are reared annually. experience before attempting it as a 



The writer recently saw a large room business, which I contemplate doing 



full of big incubators on a game farm ^°"^^ ^^"^^ ^" *^^ future, 



and the head keeper said he could not This summer I will try and send you 



possibly do without them. some photographs of the young broods 



Another game keeper who called at ^"^ inform you from time to time what 



the office of The Game Breeder recently success I am having, 



said that he had been very successful in Wishing you the greatest success in 



hatching wild duck and pheasant eggs your commendable work, I remain, 



and in rearing the young birds. Yours for More Game, 



Incubators have been found very use- ■^- ^- Hoffman. 



ful in England as a means of saving Minnesota. 



partridge eggs taken from nests which "~ * 



have been deserted and many keepers Now is a good time to advertise young 



now use the incubator to hatch eggs pheasants and ducks for late summer 



when sufficient hens can not be procured, and fall delivery. 



