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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^f Game Breeder 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, APRIL, 1912 



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THE GAME CONSERVATION SOCIETY 



PUBLISHERS, 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK 



EDITORIAL 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



The object of this magazine is to make 

 North America the biggest game pro- 

 ducing country in the world. 



"The Game Breeder" takes up and 

 continues the important work begun by 

 '"The Amateur Sportsman." The results 

 of the work are well known to sports- 

 men and naturalists throughout America. 

 Field sports in America certainly were 

 in a bad way and it seemed likely they 

 would be terminated by their enemies, 

 including those who said "hunt only with 

 a camera," and those who seemed to be- 

 lieve that a dozen or more new laws each 

 winter would produce an abundance of 

 game, when a halt was called and a new 

 programme was proposed, which called 

 for "more game and fewer laws." 



Thousands of prominent sportsmen 

 and naturalists responded to the call 

 among the first being the dean of sports- 

 men, Charles Hallock, the founder of 

 ^'Forest and Stream" and the organizer 

 of The Blooming Grove Park Associa- 

 tion, who gave encouragement to those 

 interested in the movement when he 

 wrote the oft quoted words: "Truly we 

 -need a revolution of thought and a re- 

 vival of common sense." 



Too much credit cannot be given to 

 Hallock since he has been behind the 

 movement from the start and without his 

 influence it might have failed or at least 

 it might have progressed far more slow- 

 ly than it has. 



One state after another has enacted 

 laws permitting the profitable increase 

 of game on the lines suggested by the 

 writer and it may be said that the fight 

 for a reform in the game laws has been 

 fairly won. The opening of the markets 

 to foreign game, and to some species of 

 American game, has made plain our con- 

 tention that American breeders should 

 have the same rights that foreign game 

 farmers and sportsmen have, and it is 

 plainly evident that the tendency of our 

 legislation now is in the right direction. 



As we have said, often, it is as inter- 

 esting to create as it is to destroy. We 

 must do the one if we would continue 

 to do the other. The trouble, heretofore, 

 has been that it has been criminal to 

 have game in possession even for propa- 

 gation. The sporting press has told us 

 how to destroy and has entertained us 

 with stories of the quest for the vanish- 

 ing mammals and birds but nowhere was 

 there a Hne telling us how to properly 

 look after the game and how to increase 

 its numbers. 



It is an age of specialization and we 

 believe there is an important field for a 

 publication which deals largely with the 

 problems of game and fish propagation. 

 We do not believe that a dab of motor- 

 boating or a dab of polo or lawn-tennis 

 or forestry would help such a publica- 

 tion. On the contrary we believe that it 

 should reserve its space largely for the 

 problems of propagation and for stories 

 by those who enjoy the results of such 

 industry. If we begin with the egg and 

 proceed to the fields, forests and streams, 

 where we may obtain some good shoot- 

 ing stories, and end in the kitchen (with 

 a cookery department), which furnishes 

 the excuse for our pleasures afield, we 

 believe we shall have enough to do well, 

 as all things should be done, and if our 

 readers wish to know about photography 

 or polo or lumbering or lawn-tennis or 

 about automobiles, or anything else un- 

 der the sun, we can send them a photo- 

 graphic magazine, "The Lumberman" or 

 "The Automobile Dealer and Repairer" 

 or a magazine on any other subject in 

 which they may be interested. Add fifty 



