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would be protected if they were big' 

 enough to make targets." 



It cannot be denied that the farmer 

 should not be required to entertain state 

 "pests" when found injuring his crops, 

 and many states now permit him to de- 

 stroy them, as he often did, without wait- 

 ing for the permission. In an old case 

 in Massachusetts it was decided the 

 farmer had the right to defend his prop- 

 erty. 



Farmers and Sportsmen. 



When farmers and sportsmen work to- 

 gether, as they can under the new game 

 breeders' laws, all trouble between the 

 classes easily is avoided. The sportsmen 

 pay for the right to produce and shoot 

 game and pay damages if any harm is 

 done by the game* or by the shooters. 

 There are many hundreds of thousands 

 of acres in America, including many 

 small farms, where the farmers have all 

 their taxes paid by sportsmen, and also 

 have all the game they want to shoot and 

 to eat. We have described some of these 

 places and shall describe others later. 



Hon. J. W. Titcomb. 



We have just learned, with much satis- 

 faction, that Hon. John W. Titcomb, the 

 State Game Commissioner of Vermont, 

 has been appointed Fish Commissioner 

 of New York. Mr. Titcomb was for 

 some time with the National Bureau of 

 Fisheries, and he is one of the leading 

 fish culturists in the United States. He 

 long has been much interested in the 

 "more game" movement, and Vermont 

 was one of the first states to enact a 

 game breeders' law permitting the breed- 

 ing of all species of game. Mr. Titcomb 

 is a member of the Game Conservation 

 Society and was a guest of the society at 

 its last game dinner, when he delivered 

 an address which is printed in this issue. 



Protective Association Conference. 



The American Game Protective Asso- 

 ciation announces its third annual con- 

 ference, to be held March 13 and 14 at 

 the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. 

 There will be a dinner on the evening 

 of the 14th. Many matters of interest 

 to game breeders will be discussed, and 



several members of the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society have been invited to par- 

 ticipate. The program, we are told, is 

 not completed, but it is possible to an- 

 nounce the two most attractive features : 

 Mr. E. A. Mcllhenney, of Louisiana, 

 will show at the dinner a wonderful 

 series of films of the Wild Life of the 

 Louisiana Coast. Mr. William L. Fin- 

 ley will present a new set of films, some 

 of them showing the mammals of Yel- 

 lowstone Park. 



We hope many members of The Game 

 Conservation Society will attend the 

 meeting and dinner. Last year the an- 

 nouncement reached us too late for in- 

 sertion in The Game Breeder. 



Removed of Heywood Game Farm. 



The Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin an- 

 nounces that John Heywood has pur- 

 chased two farms, aggregating 225 acres, 

 in the Gary district, and next year, when 

 the farms are made ready for game 

 breeding, Mr. Heywood will move from 

 Gardner, Mass., where he now has one 

 of the most prosperous game farms in 

 the United States. 



Ohio Quail. 



It seems likely the quail will remain 

 on the song-bird list in Ohio. Deer and 

 wild turkeys and the prairie grouse are 

 extinct; the ruffed grouse is about gone 

 in most parts of the state where it oc- 

 curred. There is very little good duck 

 shooting, excepting on a few marshes 

 owned by clubs. Since Ohio hotel keep- 

 ei s were arrested, not long ago, for serv- 

 ing some wild ducks reared by industry 

 in Kentucky, it seems likely the people 

 of Ohio must go without game to eat 

 and the sportsmen can dine on clay- 

 pigeons. 



Recently it was made legal to breed 

 pheasants, and it may be the native game 

 will become extinct and that those who 

 breed pheasants will have some shooting. 

 Why not permit the breeding and saving 

 and the shooting and serving of all spe- 

 cies of game? 



More Rabbits. 



More cotton-tail rabbits, the New 

 York Herald says, were found and put 



