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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1917. 



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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. 



THE OPEN SEASON. 



The more we consider the matter the 

 more we become convinced that "there 

 is a pleasure in the pathless woods" after 

 game which is far more delightful to the 

 eye and gratifying to the soul than the 

 pursuit of game laws in the legislative 

 halls. We have positively declined to- ap- 

 pear before legislative committees and to 

 enter the lobby. Anyone can put us down 

 for a good shoot and a good game dinner 

 and we will agree to shoot a little at the 

 traps during the dinner hour and also 

 when game is not in season provided the 

 traps be kept in readiness and there be 

 plenty of ammunition in the gun room, 

 as there usually is at all well conducted 

 modern game clubs and game breeding 

 associations. 



The quail shooting is very good on 

 many fields where we can shoot without 

 fear of the police during January and 

 February. We expect to bring home a 

 lot of birds and to have them broiled for 

 breakfast. We rejoice that since thie 

 "Happy Boots Wilson" case we can come 

 home with our quail without going to 

 jail -and now we are. eager to take the 

 field. Those who want more game laws 

 and who delight in the sport of the lobby 

 may go north or east or west to their 

 State Capitols and recite their little pieces 

 beginning "Where are the buffalo and 

 wild pigeon, etc.?" We prefer our va- 

 cation with the setters and the gun in 



the southern fields, where the roar of 

 the covey is far more pleasing than the fv 

 roar of the more game law oratory in 

 the legislative committee room. 



Each to his taste! The field and the 

 lobby both are open in February! 



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QUAIL ON LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



. The open winter and absence of snow 

 in Southern New York and some other 

 parts of the country have been very fa- 

 vorable to the quail and other birds which 

 are winter residents. We have excellent 

 reports about the quail on Long Island 

 and the shooting promises to be very 

 good next season not only on the club 

 grounds, wh6re the birds always are 

 plentiful, because it pays to keep them 

 so, but also on free territory where the 

 birds occur by reason of their importa- 

 tion and breeding by the preserve owners. 



A rumor was abroad recently that an- 

 other attempt would be made to prohibit 

 shooting the quail on Long Island and 

 to create one more "food restriction" pre- 

 venting their increase and, in fact, pre- 

 venting any one from looking after the 

 birds properly. 



The quail occur on Long Island in 

 good numbers because they were pur- 

 chased and introduced by sportsmen and 

 they a:re properly looked after, because 

 it pays to do so. Shooting is not pro- 

 hibited. In fact, always, it is quite lively. 



The writer has purchased and liber- 

 ated several hundred quail on Long Isl- 

 and and is perfectly familiar with the 

 conditions there. 



There is a large population on Long 

 Island, especially in the summer, when 

 the coast cottages are occupied. There 

 are here, as elsewhere, many gtinners 

 who seem to be unaware that there are 

 laws protecting doves at all times and 

 the quail and other game at certain sea- 

 sons. There are many foxes, hawks, 

 crows, snakes and other enemies of game 

 on Long Island. There are many dogs, 

 cats and rats. Any naturalist familiar 

 with the conditions on Long Island would 

 advise the State to encourage the people 

 to look after and protect the birds and 

 by no means to prohibit such industry. 



Darwin said long ago that if shooting 



