T he Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter, Juiy g, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 



New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME XIII 



APRIL, 1918 



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NUMBER i 



SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



More Canvasbacks. 



Milliard Cantler, a local hunter, killed 36 

 canvasback ducks off Mill Creek, four miles 

 from Annapolis, and John Crandell appeared 

 in Annapolis with three canvasbacks that he 

 was offering for sale at the modest price of 

 $1.25 a piece. He had killed them on the bay 

 about twelve miles from this city. — Live News 

 Notes. 



The price $1.25 for a canvasback does 

 seem modest at present. We can re- 

 member, however, the time when $1.25 

 was rather high. We bought teal, which 

 we prefer to the larger ducks, for 10 

 cents each. We predict that before long 

 the low prices for dead game will again 

 appear and since they will be founded on 

 common sense they will be permanent 

 as the low prices for wild trapped and 

 shot game are in all civilized countries 

 excepting America. We refer to dead 

 game, because the prices for live game 

 and for eggs will remain higher for 

 well-known reasons. 



Quail for Anne Arundel. 



Remington Live News Notes quotes 

 the Evening Capital, Annapolis, Md., 

 thus: 



The experiment of introducing quail has 

 proved successful. One thousand Alabama 

 birds were liberated last year in this county, 

 and hunters bagged them or their brood dur- 

 ing the late hunting season. 



We did not know that Alabama fur- 

 nished birds to be shot in other state*. 

 We presume the Anne Arundels will be 

 in the market for another lot for next 

 fall's shooting and will keep buying while 

 they last. 



Professor Pearson, when he was acting 

 as- game officer for North Carolina, de- 

 cided, rightly, that it was bad business for 



his state to ship job lots of quail to Penn- 

 sylvania, there to be promptly extermin- 

 ated for sport. Rare old Dr. Kalbfus 

 kicked some but we think he knows 

 enough to know that the professor was 

 right in not permitting the reduction 

 of game in one state simply to let the 

 people exterminate it in another. 



Quail for Breeding Purposes. 



Professor Pearson agrees with us that 

 it is quite another matter to permit the 

 trapping and shipping of live quail for 

 breeding purposes — in order that thou- 

 sands of quail may be made to grow 

 where few or none grew before. 



Upon one occasion the professor is- 

 sued a permit to the writer, who in good 

 faith wished to procure a few dozen 

 North Carolina quail for breeding pur- 

 poses. Due to our careless handling of 

 the matter a notice was published in a 

 local paper calling for quail. The idea 

 spread that we were about to move all 

 of the quail in the country and excite- 

 ment galore followed. The legislature 

 was in session at Raleigh and a bill was 

 passed in record time — a few minutes, 

 we were told — prohibiting the shipping 

 of quail from the state. A few letters 

 from us explained the matter satisfactor- 

 ily and we understand North Carolina 

 is today as quiet as it ever was. We 

 found it so upon recent visits. No signs 

 of the riot remain. 



Game Scarce on the Staked Plains. 



George W. Symonds of the Texas 

 Herald says : 



Too late the early settlers on this section 

 of the Staked Plains, and their descendants, 



