THE GAME BREEDER 



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nishes on any subject. Our request is 

 that our readers send names of people 

 who should be interested in the work of 

 the society as often as they occur to them. 

 Also that all those who have anything to 

 sell place at least a small advertisement 

 in The Game Breeder. It will surely re- 

 sult in a good mail, a desirable acquaint- 

 ance, and the sale of the game, eggs or 

 whatever is advertised. You can help 

 make the paper more interesting by ad- 

 vertising in it. One of our readers 

 informed the editor that the most inter- 

 esting part of the magazine was the ad- 

 vertising pages. 



A QUAIL AND GROUSE YEAR. 



The pheasants and some species of 

 wild ducks are now reared in big numbers 

 at so many places that all who wish to 

 have pheasants and ducks and their eggs 

 for breeding purposes can procure them 

 easily by writing to our advertisers. In 

 a few years the dealers will be abun- 

 dantly supplied and these foods will be- 

 come common on many tables. 



The work of the society this year will 

 largely be devoted to the development of 

 quail and grouse breeding for sport and 

 for profit and we hope many members of 

 the society who have pheasants and ducks 

 will take up quail and grouse breeding 

 and be prepared to furnish quail and 

 grouse eggs for breeding purposes. We 

 are quite sure that this industry will be 

 fully as profitable and possibly more so 

 than pheasant and duck breeding are. 

 There certainly is a big demand for quail 

 and breeders need have no fear of sell- 

 ing all the quail and grouse and the eggs 

 they can produce. 



When the birds and the eggs secured 

 from stock birds are acquired by pur- 

 chase they undoubtedly are the property 

 of the producer and we do not believe 

 intelligent State officers will make any 

 objection to the sale of live game for 

 breeding purposes, when it has been pro- 

 duced by industry. If they do we be- 

 lieve the courts will set them straight 

 since the tendency of the decisions is in 

 the direction of common sense which dis- 

 tinguishes between game produced and 

 owned by breeders and the rare wild 



game said to be owned by the State. 



If many of our members will give some 

 of their attention to quail breeding we 

 can make 1918 a big quail year. The ex- 

 periments made by the society will set 

 the pace for quail production, just as the 

 experiments with ducks and pheasants at 

 our Game Breeding Association preserve 

 set the pace for duck and pheasant breed- 

 ing. 



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THE WEASEL. 



The article in this number on the 

 weasel is timely and authoritative. The 

 weasel is certainly one of the worst ene- 

 mies of the game breeder and hunts both 

 game and eggs wantonly. We published 

 some time ago an account of the killing 

 of 57 hens in one night by a weasel in 

 Iowa. It seems the weasel was protected 

 by law and a game warden arrested the 

 farmer for killing the weasel. He elected 

 to go to jail and declined to pay any fine. 

 Today hundreds of people are breeding 

 game in Iowa. Although a $2.00 license 

 is provided by law many who were in 

 the business before the license law was 

 enacted have neglected to take out a 

 license and we are told continue their 

 food producing industry without police 

 interference. This is highly creditable 

 to the game officers of Iowa. The most 

 they should do would be to notify the 

 breeders to pay the $2.00 fine, but, no 

 doubt, the law soon will be amended so 

 that no payment is required from food 



producers. 



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More Trout. 



The Rome, N. Y., Fish and Game Pro- 

 tective Association is enlarging its trout 

 nursery. It has done so before and other 

 associations have similarly found their 

 work growing. But that is not the sig- 

 nificant fact about the Rome nursery. The 

 feature that stands out in Rome above 

 every other is that several of the big 

 manufacturing companies in Rome have 

 seen so clearly the social and economic 

 value of better fishing to their community, 

 and incidentally to their own business, 

 that they have provided the funds for 

 the enlargement. 



Fish and game associations have long 

 raised money for their work in various 



