THE GAME BREEDER 



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and of every wild thing that gives prom- 

 ise of being used for the material or 

 educational betterment of the people. All 

 life was once wild life. Agriculture has 

 grown by selection and care of the best 

 that nature offers. This work is initiated 

 in the firm belief that the sources of our 

 benefits in nature are by no means ex- 

 hausted. 



By recent act of the New York State 

 Legislature, establishing a state game 

 farm in connection with the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University and authorizing the college to 

 undertake instruction in game breeding, 

 opportunity has been made for obtaining 

 practical instruction in wild life conser- 

 vation. Under authority of this act, op- 

 tions have been obtained on a farm near 

 Ithaca, excellently located, and possessed 

 of unusual natural advantages for the 

 purposes for which it is to be employed. 

 Breeding of ring-necked pheasants and 

 mallard ducks will be carried on on this 

 farm during the first season of its opera- 

 tion, and in succeeding years the work will 

 be gradually enlarged to include other spe- 

 cies of useful game birds, fishes and other 

 animals. Game breeding as a farm enter- 

 prise will be studied, and students will 

 be afforded ample opportunity to engage 

 in practical game-breeding work on this 

 farm. Wild species will be reared to de- 

 termine their possibilities for increased 

 food production and for utilization of 

 waste lands in the State. Emphasis will 

 be given to the correlation of game breed- 

 ing and the different types of farming in 

 New York State. 



Instruction in wild life conservation 

 and in game breeding is offered by the 

 college of agriculture in the following 

 courses : 



1. The regular four year course in ag- 

 riculture in which students may include 

 among their elections the subjects that 

 are fundamental to wild life conservation 

 and game breeding. 



2. A short course of twelve weeks (to 

 be followed by one or more seasons of 

 work on a game farm) to give practical 

 training in the technique of game breed- 

 ing. 



3. A series of public lectures to be 



given by experts in the various lines of 

 wild life conservation. 



Buying Eggs. 



One of our largest advertisers wrote 

 not long ago that he had decided not to 

 sell more eggs than he could produce on 

 his farm ; that he would not purchase 

 eggs in order to fill orders beyond the 

 capacity of his place. 



There can be no doubt that the pur- 

 chaser will get better results if he pur- 

 chases eggs directly from a reputable 

 game farmer or preserve owner who ad- 

 vertises in The Game Breeder than he 

 will if he buys from a broker. A large 

 percentage of the controversies handled 

 by the game guild are due to> transactions 

 in eggs. A recent case which was de- 

 cided against a dealer in eggs and which 

 terminated his right to advertise in The 

 Game Breeder disclosed the fact that he 

 had taken an order for eggs and had pur- 

 chased the eggs from a dealer in another 

 state ; that he, in turn, had purchased the 

 eggs from another dealer who he found 

 later had undesirable stock. 



The safe way for those who wish to 

 purchase eggs is to buy them from our 

 advertisers who produce them on their 

 premises. In the future we will not ac- 

 cept advertisements from brokers since 

 we believe eggs should be shipped 

 promptly from those who produce them. 



Losses Due to Transportation. 



We are often surprised at the excel- 

 lent reports of the successful hatching 

 of eggs purchased at a distance from the 

 rearing field. In a clever little rearers' 

 manual issued by an English firm the 

 writer says, "No matter how perfect 

 eggs may be when dispatched, and how 

 carefully they may be packed after the 

 most approved principles, the shaking 

 they receive in transit is liable to render 

 a certain percentage sterile." When 

 game breeding was in its infancy in 

 America we sent to England for a lot of 

 wild duck eggs, and, although we were 

 not prepared to handle them properly 

 upon arrival, and we sent some to i an 

 incubator company to have them hatched, 

 the results indicated that eggs can be 



