THE GAME BREEDER 



they are broken up and the birds are dis- 

 tributed in the Spring to prevent in- 

 breeding. A short amendment to the 

 law giving the commission power to 

 grant permits to land owners to trap 

 game to be distributed for propagation 

 should promptly be introduced and en- 

 acted. The Game Breeders' Association 

 will give the nurseryman $6 per dozen 

 for his rabbits F. O. B. No doubt, 

 however, some sportsman in the county 

 would like to have them. If so the 

 commission should grant a permit to 

 transplant them somewhere in the 

 vicinity. The commission certainly 

 should have the power to regulate all 

 such matters. It has plenty of wardens 

 who could supervise the work. 



What An Advertiser Wrote. 



Mr. Warren R. Leach, proprietor of 

 Elkhart Park, Rushville, Illinois, 

 wrote : 



'T have just returned from West Vir- 

 ginia where I delivered a car of elk and 

 while there I learned that "The Amateur 

 Sportsman" was to be turned into a 

 general sporting paper. This policy, if 

 carried out, ruins the magazine from my 

 standpoint." An order for an advertise- 

 ment in "The Game Breeder" and a long 

 list of persons who would be interested 

 in securing it constitute Mr. Leach's 

 first contribution to our new magazine. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME 

 FARMS AND PRESERVES 



A fine lot of mallards were on the dock 

 one day last week ready to go to the 

 Clove Valley club. Several duck clubs 

 have decided that it was highly desirable 

 to have new blood from abroad, since 

 most of the ducks in America are relat- 

 ed, the original strain coming from 

 Netherby Hall. - 



Two, and possibly three, great game 

 farms are planned for this year besides 

 many smaller ones, and it seems likely 

 that one or more of them will be located 

 quite near New York. The editor of 

 "The Game Breeder" was consulted by 

 all of those who propose to engage in 

 the new industry and, of course, the new 

 farms will be advertised when they start 

 or ■ even before, in one case, it seems 

 likely. Since the grounds have not been 



secured and there are some other details 

 to be worked out we have been asked not 

 to mention names- or give the matter 

 much publicity for another month. Truly 

 the "more game" fight, won by "The 

 Amateur Sportsman," has produced 

 good results. 



One of the plans proposed is outlined 

 briefly as "a corporation for the purpose 

 of importing, exporting, breeding and 

 dealing in wild animals and birds in un- 

 limited numbers." "We are figuring on 

 handling," the writer says, "and will 

 especially push the game end of this 

 business. Our idea is to import all of 

 the game birds and animals we can pos- 

 sibly obtain in other countries and to sell 

 the same for propagation." 



Seven or eight of the largest English 

 dealers have written to the editor to say 

 that they could not furnish all or certain 

 kinds of game called for by American 

 dealers, game farmers and preserve own- 

 ers this season. The demand for mal- 

 lards has been especially strong and this 

 was due partly no doubt to the incentive 

 given to mallard breeding by Mr. Hunt- 

 ington's book "Our Wild Fowl and 

 Waders." Recently (within a few days 

 in fact) a letter came from one who said 

 that he had decided to undertake ducks 

 after reading the book which he praised 

 in high terms. He wishes to subscribe 

 for "The Breeder."_ 



Mr. Fitch of Abercrombie and Fitch 

 (the leading dealers in everything a 

 sportsman or Angler could wish) writes 

 that he, too, was much pleased with the 

 wild fowl book and that he believes 

 game breeding has received a great im- 

 petus by the "more game" movement is 

 evidenced by a two page advertisement 

 in this issue. The beautiful catalogues 

 published by this firm, no doubt, in the 

 future will list all of the various ap- 

 pliances used by breeders, game farmers 

 and preserve owners. 



Mr. A. Silz whose advertisement ap- 

 pears on another page will be glad to 

 correspond with the owners of game 

 .farms and preserves with a view to 

 marketing the dead game. It is evident 

 that this year .all of the game will not 

 come from abroad. 



