10 THE GAME BREEDER 



All that the game breeders ask is that closed season. We cannot comprehend 



when laws are enacted closing the season how state game officers can contentedly 



for terms of years or forever the game draw large salaries simply to see that laws 



farmers and those who look after their prohibiting shooting be enforced. It is 



game properly be excepted and given the fair to say that most of the state officers 



same rights which the pheasant and duck do not favor closed seasons and that the 



breeders now enjoy in most of the states, best officers favor game breeding on some 



It seems a great pity to encourage only of the farms which keep the game suffi- 

 the breeding of foreign birds on the up- ciently plentiful everywhere to make the 

 land and to prohibit the production of closed season unnecessary. 

 our native grouse and quail which are We read with great interest today a 

 the best game birds in the world. The letter from one of the most capable of 

 last named easily can be produced in good the western state game officers in which 

 numbers very cheaply in a wild state ; he said he proposed to purchase a big lot 

 they quickly can be introduced and made ■ of birds and eggs and give them to all 

 plentiful in states where they are extinct those who would look after them for 

 or nearly so. It is evident no one will sport or for profit. The state surely 

 undertake the necessary industry during soon will have an abundance of game of 

 a closed season. Those who find it prof- the species which can be procured legally 

 itable to put in their time securing closed and when the opulent non-resident wild- 

 seasons should remember that there are lifers and protectionists blow in, seeking 

 people who like to shoot and who are laws to suit their fancy in states where 

 willing to introduce game and make it they do not reside the people easily will 

 plentiful in places where there is little run them out and send them home with 

 or no game today and where there never some good advice. 



will be any until it is introduced and A few big quail and grouse farms 



properly looked after. where thousands of birds are reared to 



Had the silly attempt to close quail be sold to intelligent state officers, similar 



shooting on Long Island, N. Y., been sue- to the one referred to, and to others 



cessful the many places where quail are w ho may wish to buy birds for restocking 



properly looked after would have been soon will put an end to closed seasons 



abandoned and the rabbit shooting and no t only in the states where the birds are 



the other enemies of quail soon would produced by the thousand for sale but 



have exterminated the birds. There are a lso in states which can be restocked by 



many quail on Long Island and many intelligent state officers operating in har- 



more will be liberated and properly mony with those who will aid the good 



looked after this year. Had the season work. 



been closed no> birds would have been pur- The state officer who will encourage 



chased and liberated during the closed quail and grouse ranches will bring thou- 



season and no doubt an increasing scare- sands of dollars to his state just as any 



ity would have made it necessary to keep other industry does, 



the season closed as . it is in some of «. 



Two Interesting Books Just Issued. 



the states. 



We fail to see why the arms and am- 

 munition makers are willing to support The DuPont Company of Wilmington, Del., 

 _ '-;-*,. w Ui r U favors rWH <u£enrm has just issued a very lnterestln S booklet en- 



a _ society wnicft tavors closed seasons tHled l<The Giant La , boren » It points out and 



without excepting game farmers and syn- pr0 ves the advantage of using DuPont ex- 



dicates of sportsmen who should be their plosives for various agricultural and miscel- 



best customers. A little syndicate in laneous uses. It explains what benefit ex- 



which we are interested will use many P los . ives have been in land clearing, ditching 



,, , , L . , r 11 a 1 drainage, subsoihng, tree planting, orchard 



thousands of cartridges next fall. Al- cultivation and other uses. It is a companion 



ready the members are buying guns. Not or sequel to "Handbook of Explosives," an- 



a cartridge or a gun would be purchased other recent booklet, the latter book contain- 



should a protective society or. a profes- [n S ful1 instructions as to "how" to handle 



, mi i-r i ■ i • and use explosives. Both books will be sent 



sional wild-liter succeed in making a on ap pi; ca ti n 



