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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



on the lines of the Bureau of Fisheries, 

 which is a highly creditable bureau. 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JUNE, 1918. 



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Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 

 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



If the Congress heeds the requests of 

 the game prohibitionists and passes mi- 

 gratory laws granting the right to game 

 law enthusiasts to make criminal laws 

 which should be made by Congress if 

 they are made at all and granting the 

 prohibition of food in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, which is common in all the capi- 

 tals of the world, the game law industry, 

 which is absurdly common in the States, 

 will become a regular industry each win- 

 ter at Washington. The country will ac- 

 quire an immense lot of new criminal ab- 

 surdities and the game as food will be 

 come scarcer and scarcer. All scientists 

 know why this must be so. 



The Congress would do well to enact 

 no food prohibition or rsstrictive game 

 laws at the present session but to appoint 

 a committee to investigate the subject of 

 game as an abundant food supply. Such 

 a committee should hear the opinions of 

 able naturalists as to the impossibility of 

 increasing the food supply by enacting 

 non-sale laws and the scientific certainty 

 that the food can be made abundant and 

 cheap in all markets provided the new in- 

 dustry be encouraged and not prevented 



by laws. 



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We believe if Congress will investigate 

 the subject of game as an abundant food 

 supply the result will be the creation of 

 a National Bureau of Game, somewhat 



It will not be necessary to close the 

 Washington market to migratory game 

 and other kinds any more than it is nec- 

 essary to close the other markets of the 

 world to' migratory game and other kinds 

 provided the subject of game as a food 

 supply be handled with ordinary intelli- 

 gence by legislators. 



CONGRESS SHOULD INVESTI- 

 GATE. 



The Congress can provide a very in- 

 teresting hearing provided it will order 

 an investigation of the subject of game 

 as a food supply. We can send some 

 farmers to such a hearing who know how 

 to breed and are breeding game abun- 

 dantly. 



We think the committee should visit 

 a number of the food producing plants 

 and take the evidence on the ground. We 

 do not know Mr. Wheeler, but we would 

 like to see him appointed on a committee 

 to take the evidence, and if the commit- 

 tee will visit some of the places we will 

 suggest we will see that Mr. Wheeler 

 eats "a woodcock once more before he 

 dies." 



We would like to have Mr. Johnson 

 of Kentucky, serve on the proposed com- 

 mittee to investigate and sample Amer- 

 ican game before any action is taken pro 1 - 

 hibiting the sale and eating of this desir- 

 able food. We believe if Mr. Johnson 

 will hear the evidence and sample the 

 food he will agree with us that it should 

 be legal to produce this food in safe 

 woods where no birds occur to-day and 

 that the producer should not be prevented 

 from marketing his food under proper 

 regulations. It is a mistake to say that 

 we must continue to arrest the producer 

 and prevent his getting stock birds and 

 eggs until such time as he has made the 

 birds plentiful and cheap. This is not 

 the way to make any food abundant. The 

 producer should be supplied with stock 

 birds and eggs, and The Game Breeder 

 will tell him quickly how he can have a 

 good crop of ruffed grouse in his wood 



