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THE GAME BREEDER 



are handsome and very good to shoot 

 and to eat and if they can be established 

 in the Eastern States they will add a 

 pleasing variety to the bag. The first 

 shipment of these birds from the Far 

 West came through safely without the 

 loss of a single bird. 



The Long Island Game Breeders' 

 Association. 



Although the Long Island Game 

 Breeders' Association, one of the new 

 shooting syndicates, made a late start it 

 seems likely the members will have some 

 very good shooting next fall. Here, as 

 elsewhere, there has been difficulty in 

 gathering enough hens for breeding pur- 

 poses, but there are many ways of get- 

 ting around this trouble. One-day old 

 birds will be used. Wild duck eggs will 

 be hatched in incubators and these added 

 to the wild nesting game on the preserve 

 and some hand-reared pheasants and 

 ducks should make the shooting good in 

 October. It will be interesting to report 

 that shooting can be provided even when 

 a late start is made. 



The membership in this new shoot is 

 filling up rapidly and it seems certain 

 there will be a waiting list before the 

 shooting opens. 



Chicken Growing Scarce. 



J. H. McKeever, Aberdeen, S. D., 

 says : The chicken shooting Was exr 

 ceedingly scarce, the coveys being few 

 and far between. Chickens are rapidly 

 disappearing from the prairies of South 

 Dakota as a game bird, and it is esti- 

 mated that unless the law be invoked to 

 protect them during a period of years, it 

 will not be long before they are wholly 

 exterminated. There was talk last year 

 in this State, as well as in North Dakota, 

 of placing a closed season on chickens 

 for the next five years, but nothing has 

 been done in that regard. 



nectady, however, and it is said that 

 some of them have so preyed upon their 

 imagination as to make themselves be- 

 lieve that there really is game in Sche- 

 nectady County, but there isn't. I have 

 gone over the wilder parts and have 

 talked with others who have "explored" 

 the county and it is generally agreed that 

 when it comes to real live game Sche- 

 nectady County can't be included on the 

 list. A few rabbits, partridge and pheas- 

 ants are seen now and then and some- 

 times an occasional fox is reported but 

 they are never actually shot and brought 

 in, just "seen." 



Good County to Start Game Breeding 

 Associations. 



Has Many Sportsmen. 



However, as I have already said, Sche- 

 nectady boasts of a large number of en- 

 thusiastic sportsmen. These fellows have 

 gotten together now and then and formed 

 rifle clubs for target and trapshooting, 

 but none of them has flourished and all 

 have petered out except the Niskayuna 

 Rifle Club, which has a range near the 

 city of Schenectady. The Schenectady 

 Fish and Game Protective Association is 

 a sportsman's club formed of real sports- 

 men who know the game. Their activi- 

 ties have run along fishing to a large ex- 

 tent in this county, while annually most 

 of the members make a trip to the Adir- 

 ondacks for deer hunting. 



There has never been any real objec- 

 tion to trapshooting or the formation of 

 rifle clubs, the only trouble • being that 

 interest could not be kept up and the 

 fellows began to lag in enthusiasm. A 

 good organization could be started in the 

 city, I believe, formed of trapshooting 

 men, that would prove to be permanent 

 if a real effort were made to get all the 

 enthusiastic gunners together. — Reming- 

 ton Live Nezus Notes. 



A Blue Report. 



Del Dunning, Union Star, Schenec- 

 tady, N. Y., says: Game conditions in 

 Schenectady County are poor. There 

 are many enthusiastic hunters in Sche- 



Good Work. 



It was reported last month that the 

 N. Y. legislature had voted the able fish 

 culturist, Mr. Titcomb, out of office. The 

 Governor promptly vetoed the bill, and 

 Mr. Titcomb remains. 



