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THE GAME BREEDER 



club soon will have a waiting list since 

 the opportunity for excellent sport and 

 the chance to produce a good lot of game 

 are inviting. Although members of the 

 old club may not think the quarters quite 

 as attractive as the old house was, the 

 opportunities for breeding upland game 

 certainly are far better than they were 

 on the sandy fields and scrub oak bar- 

 rens at Wading River. Those who' have 

 organized the club have proceeded on 

 the theory that it is more important to 

 have good shooting than it is to have 

 elaborate quarters and it is evident that 

 there is a limit to what can be done with 

 small annual dues. 



Although the club has made a late 

 start it seems likely the shooting will be 

 very good next fall. The rules of the 

 club will probably be made similar to 

 the club rules of the older association. 

 Small shooting parties were permitted 

 to take the place two days at a time and 

 to visit it often during the season; those 

 who had shot one or more times giv- 

 ing way to those who had had no shoot- 

 ing where two applications were made 



for the same date. The bag limits will 

 be fixed as soon as the amount of game 

 produced is ascertained and the man- 

 agers hope to be able to make them large. 

 Members can visit the club and see the 

 breeding operations at any time during 

 the summer and they can remain over- 

 night if they wish to do so. As soon as 

 the rooms are ready for occupants cards 

 for visitors who may wish to visit the 

 preserve during the breeding season 

 probably will be issued as they were by 

 the Game Breeders' Association. These 

 resulted in many people becoming inter- 

 ested in the production of game, some of 

 whom started places of their own or in- 

 troduced game breeding at other clubs in 

 which they were interested. Some visit- 

 ors came from a distance and it is to be 

 hoped this educational feature may be 

 preserved. Visitors, of course, could 

 only visit the club before the shooting 

 season opened. A club with a large 

 membership should not be expected to 

 provide shooting for many guests. The 

 rules will be made simple and as liberal 

 as the older rules were, no doubt. 



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MY EXPERIENCE IN GAME BREEDING. 



By J. B. Foote. 



All I have ever done so far has been 

 for our own home amusement. We 

 raised several hundred ducks last year 

 without much effort, and I thought if we 

 could sell the surplus it would be better 

 than letting them go and at the same 

 time give employment to the children on 

 the farm. 



In regard to my experience in raising 



geese and other birds, will say I have 

 had more experience than profit. This 

 is not because there is no money in the 

 proposition nor because of inexperience 

 on my part. It is because I have not 

 done as well as I knew how. 



If I were twenty-five years younger 

 and interested in things as I was then 

 or if twenty-five years ago I had had the 



