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THE GAME BREEDER 



Tfe? Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, MAY, 1918. 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



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IMAGINATION. 



Du Pont Magazine says imagination 

 spells the difference between the blind de- 

 tail-doer who, from the economic stand- 

 point, dies long before his last breath, 

 and the never satisfied delver who lives 

 long after he is dead. 



Napoleon said, "Imagination rules the 

 world." The Game Breeder imagined 

 that America quickly could be made the 

 biggest game producing country in the 

 world. Rapidly the details are being 

 worked out by thousands of intelligent 

 breeders with excellent imagination 

 about new methods. Some articles of 

 especial value written by these readers 

 soon will be published. One of the first 

 will be the practical experience of a Long 

 Island pheasant breeder who says he sel- 

 dom loses a bird. 



WHERE ARE THE BUFFALOES? 



The Globe, N. Y., says: 



The question raised by Rudyard Kipling as 

 to what the crocodile had for dinner is not in 

 the least more important than one that is 

 agitating the American Bison Society. For it 

 is proposed to kill the herd of nine bison in 

 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and, as a 

 war conservation measure, feed them to the 

 bears of the zoo. 



If only the bison were carnivorous the prob- 

 lem might be solved by having them eat the 

 bears. Or, like the gingerbread dog and the 

 calico cat in the Eugene Field poem, the bison 

 and the bears might eat each other up. But 



this would hardly satisfy the American Bison 

 Society, either. 



Perhaps the suggestion of the president of 

 the American Bison Society will solve this 

 bristling problem: he suggests a diet of horse 

 meat for the bears. 



Thousands upon thousands of dollars 

 have been collected in America by offi- 

 cers of various game saving societies 

 who say, "Where are the buffalo?" Hun- 

 dreds and possibly thousands of protec- 

 tive game laws have been secured by 

 those who have used the question in 

 their arguments to legislative commit- 

 tees. 



A large herd of the bison, however, 

 when offered for sale brought no pur- 

 chasers in the United States and the 

 herd was sold to Canada and placed in 

 a park. The proper place for bison 

 is on a range in a large park where 

 they can find most of their food. The 

 land where we used to shoot them in 

 abundance has been sold to cattle and 

 sheep ranchers and to farmers, and it 

 would be impossible to restore the bison 

 as a sporting animal on such areas. 



The attempt to introduce deer and 

 to increase their numbers in agricul- 

 tural regions is always followed by 

 claims for damages against the state. 

 The attempt to license trespassers to 

 shoot up the quail and other game birds 

 on the farms is followed by laws put- 

 ting the game birds on the song bird 

 list and prohibiting all shooting for a 

 term of years, renewed from time to 

 time, or forever, as in the recent Ohio 

 legislation. 



The times have changed and we must 

 change our methods of handling the 

 game in settled regions or give up field 

 sports altogether in such regions. Many 

 posted farms can be used as shooting 

 grounds by those willing to deal fairly 

 with the owners. Thousands of our 

 readers now have an abundance of game 

 and look after it properly. Shooting 

 syndicates or clubs with small dues can 

 have good shooting during long open 

 seasons and the vast bays and marshes 

 and large areas of mountain, forest and 

 uncultivated lands for many years can 

 be utilized as shooting grounds for the 

 public. The state should encourage 



