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THE GAME BREEDER 



T^ e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by D WIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, APRIL, 1918. 



TERMS: 

 10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, f 1.25. ' 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 



Telephone, Beekman 3G85. 



KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME. 



Why should we send many thousands 

 of dollars to Mexico for small quail when 

 bigger and better birds can be produced 

 on the western farms ? 



The best state game officers now are 

 aware that it is far better to encourage 

 grouse and quail ranches, where thou- 

 sands of birds can be produced and sold, 

 than it is to have these birds placed on 

 the song-bird list by people in New York 

 who raise thousands of dollars annually 

 to secure restrictive laws in other states. 

 People are permitted and invited to cre- 

 ate cattle and sheep ranches and great 

 wheat and other grain farms, and it is 

 well known that such industry often re- 

 sults in the extermination of the game 

 birds on vast areas. A few game ranches 

 and a few game preserves in any region 

 soon will improve the shooting on vast 

 areas since when game is made and kept 

 plentiful on any place it overflows and 

 restocks the surrounding country. 



The state game officer who wishes to 

 purchase quiail should not be obliged 

 to send vast sums of money to Mexico. 

 He should send it to American game 

 farmers who can produce plenty:of game 

 as soon as it is legal to do! so. 



The big wheat farms in the west where 

 there are few or no game birds today 

 easily can be made to produce all the 

 game necessary to supply state depart- 



ments, shooting clubs and commercial 

 breeders. 



Sport will fare better in states where 

 game is made abundant than in states 

 where it is placed on the song-bird list. 

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TWO REQUESTS. 



We would like to have our readers sug- 

 gest what they would like to see in The 

 Game Breeder. The promptness with 

 which subscriptions are renewed, and 

 the interest which readers take when we 

 ask them to send us new subscribers, 

 indicate that the matter we furnish inter- 

 ests them, but we are well aware that 

 The Game Breeder can be made more 

 interesting and more useful and instruc- 

 tive. We are glad to see an end to the 

 arresting of people for having birds in 

 their possession and for other crimes 

 which should not occur on game farms. 

 Common sense has made some rapid 

 strides, and we believe it will not be 

 necessary for us to devote much space in 

 the future to the defense of food pro- 

 ducers or to controversial matters. Our 

 inclination is to have more practical ar- 

 ticles about game breeding, its pleasures 

 and profits, and we hope our readers will 

 not only send us short letters giving their 

 experience, but that also they will tell us 

 what they want to see published. We 

 know where to go after almost any in- 

 formation about any subject relating to 

 game breeding, and we regard it as the 

 duty of an editor to select and gather the 

 material the readers want. So please 

 write to us. 



Request No. 2. 

 The postage of the Conservation So- 

 ciety and Game Breeder letters is now 3 

 cents instead of 2, as you all -know. The 

 printing costs more than it did. The 

 paper ditto. Everything costs more, but 

 we wish to keep the price for subscribing 

 members at $1 and guild members at $2, 

 as heretofore, and at the same time to 

 make the magazine better and give more 

 for the money. Our guild cases, com- 

 plaints for unfair dealing, etc., Cost us 

 more to handle than we receive from 

 guild members. In some cases we have 

 saved at member hundreds of dollars, and 

 it is worth something to have the cor- 

 respondence service which the guild fur- 



