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THE GAME BREEDER 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



New Places. 



We were consulted about four or five 

 new game preserves last week which have 

 just started or are about to start. These, 

 with the Experiment Station of the Game 

 Conservation Society and the large pre- 

 serve of the L. I. Game Breeders' Asso- 

 ciation, indicate that the game breeding 

 industry is keeping up well considering 

 the times. The combined capacity of 

 these new plants will be large. Hundreds 

 of elk and deer, and many thousands of 

 pheasants, quail, wild ducks and some 

 grouse, wild turkeys, rabbits and hares 

 will be produced annually and added to 

 the nation's food supply. 



Importation of Live Quail. 



We have heard many excellent reports 

 of shipments of live quail, including 

 many from far away Mexico. There 

 also have been some losses due to the 

 overcrowded condition of express com- 

 panies or carelessness. One shipper re- 

 ported that the food sent for the quail 

 in transit from Mexico was delivered by 

 an express company as a separate ship- 

 ment some days after the quail arrived in 

 a Northern State for the most part dead, 

 we believe. The losses may be made the 

 excuse for advising the Biological Society 

 that the importation of quail is all wrong. 

 We hope that importations again will 

 be permitted not later than September or 

 October, and if they are not we shall 

 want to know the reason. 



those who have eggs unsold should hatch 

 them and advertise one-day old birds, of- 

 fering to send with them the hen which 

 hatched the young birds. 



We intended last year to make experi- 

 ments with one-day old mallards and 

 black ducks but the matter was delayed 

 owing to the press of other business until 

 it was too late and the breeders could 

 not furnish the young ducks. We shall 

 make experiments with one-day old 

 ducks this year. 



Ducks and Incubators. 



Since there has been a great scarcity 

 of hens for breeding purposes this year 

 and the prices are high, breeders should 

 try hatching duck eggs in incubators. 

 Duck eggs undoubtedly can be hatched 

 in incubators provided they have the 

 proper moisture and we hope our readers 

 who use incubators will report results 

 to The Game Breeder. Remember al- 

 ways that you like to read about what 

 others are doing and that they will enjoy 

 reading about your experiments, both the 

 successes and the failures, if the cause 

 of the failure is stated. 



There are many big commercial duck 

 hatcheries where thousands of Pekin 

 and other domesticated ducks are reared 

 annually. The Game Conservation So- 

 ciety will have many wild duck eggs 

 hatched by these commercial breeders 

 and the results of the experiments will 

 be reported in The Game Breeder. 



Shipping One Day Old Pheasants and 



Ducks. 



We advise all breeders to try the sale 

 of one-day old pheasants and ducks. 

 Just before the war started the sale of 

 one-day old pheasants had begun in Eng- 

 land with good results. Broods of pheas- 

 ants with a hen were shipped success- 

 fully for considerable distances. An ex- 

 periment made by the Game Conserva- 

 tin Society last year proved that one-day 

 old pheasants can be shipped safely and 



Bobwhites. 



The demand for quail far exceeded 

 the supply as usual. All of the North- 

 ern and Western birds offered quickly 

 were sold at excellent prices. We heard 

 of a Western breeder who had a good 

 lot of bobwhite quail and at once sent 

 an order for them but he reported, that 

 they were all sold the day before our 

 letter arrived. 



There is a growing and intelligent dis- 

 position to regard quail bred and owned 

 by game farmers as entirely distinct from 



