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THE GAME BREEDER 



in all cases where the guild decides the 

 advertiser has not lived up to the stand- 

 ard. People do not like it when we cancel 

 their membership and return the dollar 

 paid to receive the publication and the 

 check sent for an advertisement. For- 

 tunately this does not happen often, but 

 our readers can rest assured that the 

 best place to purchase stock and eggs 

 is from those who are interested in the 

 more game movement and have the right 

 to use The Game Breeder. 



All of our advertisers report excellent 

 results from their advertisements in The 

 Game Breeder. Often they write to dis- 

 continue the advertising because they can 

 not fill their orders and do not like to 

 answer a big mail. 



The reason why the advertising pro- 

 duces such results is that the magazine 

 goes to practically all of the clubs and 

 preserve owners, state game officers, 

 game farmers and in fact every one like- 

 ly to purchase. We are continually help- 

 ing to start new places and we have a 

 large number of people who are just 

 starting big and small places. The sane 

 and in fact the only way to reach the 

 new customers is through the columns 

 of The Game Breeder. Since our rates 

 for game advertisements are very low, the 

 object of the magazine being to quickly 

 build up the new industry, it will cer- 

 tainly pay all of our breeders who have 

 not done so to try an advertisement in 

 the magazine. By thus benefitting your- 

 self remember you are helping the cause 

 and helping to make the only paper pub- 

 lished in your interest better and more 

 influential as it should be made. 



use of a dog in hunting the game birds, 

 claiming it gives the hunter too great an 

 advantage, etc. The writers are simply 

 ignorant; probably never saw a dog 

 work; know almost nothing of shooting 

 on the wing. It can not be otherwise. 

 No sane man with knowledge of wing 

 shooting over dogs can object unless he is 

 a fanatic. And why these writers are 

 given space in sportsmen's papers to con- 

 demn their fellows is one of the things 

 which mystify me. Yet the editors are 

 often fanatics. I believe one of our 

 friends could not be induced to shoot a 

 game bird or catch a game fish. I never 

 could get him to come up to Sidney for 

 choice woodcock and quail shooting. Ob- 

 jects to taking a life he can not restore, 

 and similar bosh, possibly. His columns 

 were far freer to fanatics than to sports- 

 men. 



Sportsmen are between the devil and 

 the deep blue sea, fanatics who oppose all 

 killing, even to poultry, on one side, and 

 game commissioners, wardens and their 

 especial pets, the hoodlums who want free 

 shooting, more properly free trespassing, 

 on the other. 



General VVingate's article is all right. 

 I used to know a farmer who trapped 

 quail in early winter to liberate next 

 spring; he was a sportsman as well as 

 a farmer or would never have done so. 

 I have kept quail in a cage from De- 

 cember to May. They do well in close 

 confinement and on grain feed. All over 

 the north quail should be trapped every 

 fall and liberated the next spring, but 

 not for trespassers. 



Increase of Fanatics. 



By P. R. Robeson. 



We have been developing quite a per- 

 centage of fanatics in recent years who 

 are strongly opposed to their fellow men 

 (and women) having any pleasures the 

 fanatics do not indulge in. These pleas- 

 ures run all the way from cigarettes and 

 beer to Sunday baseball, dancing and sex- 

 ing, and include shooting and angling dis^- 

 tinctly for sport. Have you not noticed 

 that writers in the so-called sportsmen's 

 papers and magazines even condemn the 



Gulls as Submarine Detectors. 



Dr. A. D. Pentz, Jr., of New Brigh- 

 ton, Staten Island, has developed a plan 

 for using gulls to disclose the presence 

 of submarines. He suggests that hoppers 

 fifty-four inches long be made of sheet 

 steel and bolted to the tops of submarines, 

 to be filled with chopped fish which may 

 be released from time to time by means 

 of a crank operated inside the vessel. 



In the way gulls will be taught to asso- 

 ciate submarines with food and will 

 gather clamorously over any submarine 

 that may appear in the waters. 



