THE GAME BREEDER 



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from the third day of the open season 

 to the fifth day of the close season, and 

 legally killed game imported from 

 other states from Oct, 1 to Feby. 1. 



In Kansas game reared in captivity 

 may be sold under permit. 



In Louisiana game reared in captiv- 

 ity may be sold during the open season. 

 Game raised in private preserves and 

 properly tagged may also be exported. 

 In Maine game raised in private pre- 

 serves and maintained under permis- 

 sion of commissioners, may be sold 

 without restriction. 



In Massachusetts, quail and Hun- 

 garian partridges raised in captivity 

 may be sold for propagation ; deer and 

 pheasants raised in captivity may be 

 sold by any person. 



In Michigan game raised in captivity 

 may be sold^alive within the state and 

 under a $1.00 permit alive or dead 

 without the state. 



In Missouri, deer and elk reared in 

 captivity may be sold under regulation 

 of commissioner. 



In New Jersey, a permit is required 

 to deal in deer, pheasants, mallards and 

 black ducks. 



In New Mexico, game raised in li- 

 censed preserves may be sold. 



In New York, certain species of 

 game raised in preserves and killed and 

 tagged, may be sold under a $5 license. 



In North Dakota, domesticated game 

 may be sold on written permission of 

 game board of control. 



In Oklahoma, domesticated game 

 animals and birds may be sold. 



In Oregon, live ring-necked pheas- 

 ants and other birds, reared in captivity 

 for breeding purposes, may be sold af- 

 ter being pinioned. The attention of 

 our readers is called to the law requir- 

 ing the mutilation of birds. Oregon 

 sportsmen should attend to this mat- 

 ter. 



In Pennsylvania, game birds used for 

 propagating purposes may be sold at 

 any time under authority of game com- 

 missioners. 



In South Dakota, game birds raised 

 in captivity may be sold under written 

 permission of state game warden. 



In Vermont, game from private game 



preserves, stocked at owner's expense, 

 may be sold at any time. 



In Washington, propagated game 

 birds and animals may be sold for pro- 

 pagation purposes at any time. 



In Wisconsin, domesticated deer, 

 moose, elk, caribou and game birds may 

 be sold under permit of state fish and 

 game warden. 



In Wyoming, the sale of the natural 

 increase of any big game, except 

 moose, captured and held for propaga- 

 tion, is permitted. It seems funny to 

 be able to sell the calf and not the cow 

 when both are owned by one person, 

 but permission to sell the calf may be 

 regarded as a distinct gain. 



The above outline of the new enact- 

 ments permitting the sale of wild food 

 is, for the most part, from a recent bul- 

 letin of the 'U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. It is absurd, of course, to re- 

 quire the owners of game to rear it "in 

 captivity." The game would be far 

 better if reared in a wild state on the 

 game farm or preserve. Diseases often 

 come from confinement and the wild 

 food should be produced under healthy 

 conditions. The farmer is not required 

 to rear all his potatoes and cabbages in 

 greenhouses or other confined quarters ; 

 he is not required to rear his cows, 

 horses and sheep in confinement, and 

 the owners of game soon will rear it in 

 the fields, no doubt. There is an advan- 

 tage to the neighborhood when game 

 can "overflow" and the sportsmen ap- 

 preciate this in the neighborhood of all 

 well ordered game farms and preserves. 

 Tlie"in confinement" nonsense must go. 

 In New York, we believe, game is suf- 

 ficiently "confined," provided there be 

 a boundry of some kind about the game 

 farm or preserve. It is not necessary 

 to have a fence ; a road, stream or any 

 boundary will do. We think it likely 

 the courts would hold that this is suffi- 

 cient for any game farmers Avho in good 

 faith are rearing game on their prem- 

 ises. They can not follow it if it es- 

 capes, of course, because the ownership 

 is a qualified ownership, and the game 

 may return to its natural ferocity when 

 it can not be identified, and it then be- 



