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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1913 



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THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY 



PUBLISHERS, 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK 

 Telephone, Beekman 8685. 



NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. 



It is the fashion to begin the New- 

 Year by making some good resolu- 

 tions. The Game Conservation Society- 

 has resolved that North America shall 

 be the biggest game producing country 

 in the world. 



The members of the society con- 

 tribute to the circulation of "The Game 

 Breeder" and we would advise them 

 to make one important resolution for 

 the new year: 



They should resolve to buy only 

 from those who advertise in the maga- 

 zine. If the contributing members, of 

 the society will buy only from those 

 who support the more game movement 

 they will support a good cause as it 

 should be supported. Hundreds of 

 our readers will purchase game, and 

 guns, and cartridges for the spring trap 

 shooting and the autumn field shoot- 

 ing. Most of the game clubs now have 

 traps for clay bird shooting and they 

 should remember to buy from their 



friends. 



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GAME BREEDING IN CON- 

 NECTICUT. 



We learn that a bill encouraging 

 game breeding will be introduced in 

 the legislature in Connecticut and we 

 hope and believe it will be enacted in 

 time for game breeders to make a start 

 next spring. 



Massachusetts, New York, New Jer- 

 sey, Colorado and some other States 

 now have game breeders' laws and we 



are assured Vermont will have a new 

 and excellent law encouraging the prof- 

 itable breeding of game before the as- 

 sembly adjourns. 



Connecticut has much land which is 

 not as productive as it should be and 

 which can be made to yield a good 

 crop of desirable food. Deer and many 

 species of game birds will thrive in 

 Connecticut and no good reason can be 

 assigned why it should be a crime to 

 profitably produce them. 



As we have said, often, criminal laws 

 are intended to prevent wrong-doing. 

 There should be rules of conduct pre* 

 scribing the punishment of evil-doers. 

 We wish to invite the attention of the 

 lawmakers of Connecticut to the fact 

 that it should not be a crime for land 

 owners to profitably produce a desira- 

 ble food on their lands or to rent them 

 for such purpose. 



The familiar game protective stat- 

 utes are well intended and there can be 

 no objection to such laws providing 

 for short open seasons, small bags, the 

 prohibition of the sale and transport of 

 the small remnant of game which oc- 

 curs in Connecticut, as elsewhere, but 

 such laws should exempt game breed- 

 ers who are willing to produce desira- 

 ble foods by industry. Existing laws 

 have not made the game abundant and 

 cheap in the markets as it should be. 



There must be a distinction between 

 game produced by industry and the 

 so-called State or wild game which has 

 no owner and which is not properly 

 looked after. The State game depart- 

 ment can be made of great economic 

 importance provided it be authorized to 

 license game breeders and to encourage 

 the industry of game breeding. As the 

 department is conducted to-day it is a 

 mere governmental side-show repre- 

 senting sport alone. It does not repre- 

 sent the interests of the farmers, the 

 game dealers, the hotels and the peo- 

 ple who should find game cheap in the 

 markets during a long open season. 

 A State department should represent 

 all of the people. 



The only objection to laws encour- 

 aging game breeding that we are aware 

 of is advanced by those who claim to 



