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THE GAME BREEDER 



ens evidently have been unable to 

 cope with the situation. A number 

 of these road-houses are along the 

 Canadian shore, and it has not been 

 possible to get the Canadian officials 

 to interfere, because they claim that 

 such game sold in Canada out of season 

 comes from the American side, so the ' 

 Canadian law is not broken, 



Well-to-Do Pot Hunters. 



After studying the situation the 

 Michigan field agent says : I decided 

 to organize those who would give ef- 

 fective aid. Some of these men who 

 engage in pot-hunting are well-to-do, 

 with good reputations, who own their 

 own l^omes in Detroit. On this ac- 

 count I found it impossible to get 

 those interested in acting with me to 

 permit of any publicity in the matter 

 because these pot-hunters are their 

 old-time friends. A plan is being 

 framed whereby we expect to be able, 

 with the co-operation of the Canadian 

 authorities, to abolish this shooting. 



A Remedy for Road-Houses. 



While the Audubon Association is 

 busy in the laudable effort to stop 

 illegal shooting the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society will also be busy provid- 

 ing a remedy for the road-houses. 

 There are thousands of worthless 

 marshes containing small ponds, 

 sloughs and streams, in the region re- 

 ferred to, and some of these should be 

 occupied by game breeders who easily 

 and inexpensively can produce all the 

 wild ducks the road-houses can use, 

 and at the same time the Detroit and 

 other Michigan markets can be kept 

 full of this desirable food. 



The Canadian Club and many Michi- 

 gan clubs control excellent marshes 

 where the shooting is good, but this 

 shooting will be much better when 

 game breeding is undertaken, as it 

 soon will be. Our Michigan readers 

 are expressing a decided interest in 

 this subject and by the time the Audu- 

 bons get the illegal shooting for road- 

 houses stopped we believe the game 

 breeders of Michigan, including some 

 of the road-houses, will produce all 

 the wild fowl the people can eat. They 



should all have "Our Wild Fowl and 

 Waders," the book which tells how to 

 profitably breed ducks, geese, snipe 

 and wood-cock. This is supplied by 

 the Game Conservation Society, pub- 

 lishers of "The Game Breeder." 



More About New Jersey. 



Last month the president of the 

 New Jersey Fish and Game Commis- 

 sioners wrote that the New Jersey 

 laws permitted the bringing of game 

 into the State. He cited page 42 of 

 the New Jersey laws, which we print- 

 ed, and now re-print: 



1. Whenever by the laws of any other 

 State or country it shall be lawful to take 

 out of the confines of the said State or 

 country any game, whether the same be fowl 

 or animal, it shall be lawful to bring such 

 game within the State of New Jersey; pro- 

 vided, however, that nothing herein contained 

 shall permit the sale or exposure for sale of 

 any such game. Any person violating the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be liable to a penalty 

 of twenty dollars for each fowl or animal sold 

 or exposed for sale. 



Approved April 13, 1908. 



For the benefit of many new sub- 

 scribers who did not see the last num- 

 ber of "The Game Breeder," the case 

 to which this refers was as follows : 

 A member of the Game Breeders' As- 

 sociation which legally owns and rears 

 game in New York State attempted 

 to take two pheasants from the game 

 farm to his home in New Jersey. He 

 was arrested and taken to a distant 

 court and fined excessively. Since it 

 was late he settled and went* home. It 

 seemed, from the letter from the com- 

 missioner printed last month, that the 

 arrest was illegal ; it is evident from 

 the law he cited that he could legally 

 bring home his food: 



But! 



But there is another law in New 

 Jersey, which, it seems, is intended to 

 regulate the food after it is legally 

 brought home. Briefly, this law pro- 

 vides that one must be fined $20 and 

 costs for each bird legally brought 

 into the State, because it is "in pos- 

 session" ! Arresting officers have de- 

 cided that the food is intended for 

 them, and that it was a mistake for 

 the owner to think the payment of 



