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THE GAME BREEDER 



the birds require less food than the ordi- 

 nary barnyard hens do. 



Pheasant eggs are small and the ship- 

 ping charges are light. These are paid 

 by the shipper and it is a rule of the 

 game breeding business that cash pay- 

 ments for birds and eggs accompany the 

 orders so that there are no losses due to 

 bad accounts. Pheasant eggs sell read- 

 ily at the beginning of the season at $3 

 and $3.50 per dozen and at $20 and $25 

 per hundred in large lots. Late eggs sell 

 for $15 per hundred and we once heard 

 but only once of a sale of eggs in Amer- 

 ica as low as $10 per hundred. This 

 was at the end of the season and only a 

 few hundred eggs were sold at the price 

 named. The eggs needed for hatching 

 purposes had been more than supplied 

 and the late eggs offered at $10 quickly 

 were sold without an advertisement. 



In England, where game keeping is 

 common and in fact quite universal, early 

 pheasant eggs usually sell for two pounds 

 or about ten dollars a hundred and there 

 is a slight reduction as the season ad- 

 vances. No doubt when game farms and 

 preserves become numerous in America 

 as they are in England we may expect 

 a reduction in the price of eggs. But 

 for several years we predict that pheas- 

 ant eggs will sell at from $15 to> $25 per 

 hundred and those who place their ad- 

 vertisements early in The Game 

 Breeder will get the best results. 



Just here we would remind our read- 

 ers that too often they wait until May 

 to send in their advertisements or until 

 they are reminded that they shoud do 

 so by seeing a big surplus of eggs after 

 they have all they can set. It would be 

 a good plan to put up a little notice 

 in the hatching house or feedroom stat- 

 ing that egg advertisements to get the 

 best results should be sent to The Game 

 Breeder in December 1 and January at the 

 latest. 



Those who carry space advertisements 

 or even a breeder's card by the year of 

 course come first when the rush is on 

 to buy eggs and the late advertisers can- 

 not expect to get the good results ob- 

 tained bv the provident who advertise 

 early and keen the advertisement stand- 

 ing through the breeding season. 



Wild ducks are easily handled and the 

 eggs bring about the same prices asked 

 for pheasant eggs. 



Remarkable Shipments of Quail. 



Quail shipped to the Long Island, N. 

 Y., Game Breeders Association from 

 Mexico and other distant points arrived 

 alive without the loss of a single bird. 

 A loss of ten or twenty per cent would 

 not have been surprising, but to have 

 large shipments of several dozen birds 

 each come through without the loss of 

 a single bird is gratifying as well as re- 

 markable. 



One shipment of blue quail from a 

 far Western State was headed for the 

 preserve when the editor of The Game 

 Breeder heard that the State Depart- 

 ment had not issued the license to have 

 them in possession which he had been 

 informed was applied for and which he 

 presumed was issued. The birds in- 

 stantly were ordered shipped to North- 

 port and the express agent was notified 

 to deliver them to a licensed friend of 

 the association the presumption being that 

 he would gladly take care of the unex- 

 pected guests when the situation was 

 explained. The editor of The Game 

 Breeder is such a stickler for obeying 

 the laws no matter how rotten they may 

 seem that he would not favor having 

 birds overnight without a license even if 

 the error be due to neglect. On the other 

 hand when fool arrests are made of per- 

 sons who are unaware that they cannot 

 have birds even after thev have paid the 

 fine or initiation until the clerk having 

 the matter in charge decides to issue the 

 license, the editor of The Game 

 Breeder is glad to go to the assistance 

 of such criminals and see if a jury will 

 convict them and send them to jail for 

 having birds in possession after they 

 have paid the fine or license because a 

 clerk has neglected to issue it. Why 

 should there be any license charge or 

 penalty applied to food producers? 

 Massachusetts charges nothing for the 

 right to produce game as food. 



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It is now time to be°"in advertising- 

 pheasants, ducks and wild turkeys, quail, 

 etc., for late summer and fall delivery. 



