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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, JULY, 191*. 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



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. Hvntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto. Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



We believe all of the states should 

 permit game breeders to breed all species 

 of game without any charge for a license. 

 "This method has been given a fair trial 

 in Massachusetts and has been found to 

 "be practical and popular. It is a poor 

 time to discourage the production of 

 highly desirable foods. 



It is a very good plan for game breed- 

 ers who have anything to sell to send 

 their advertisements to the magazine 

 without waiting to be asked to do so. 

 All of our young men are' in the service 

 — every one, in fact, the Government 

 would take — and the old folks left to 

 run the society and its publication are 

 entirely too busy creating new shoots 

 and customers for the advertisers and 

 in procuring information and stories in- 

 teresting to readers, with an occasional 

 look around to see how the game law 

 enthusiasts and sport prohibitionists are 

 getting on, to be able to give much at- 

 tention to business. So don't wait to be 

 asked to advertise. We can always make 

 room for one more good and reliable 

 game breeder provided the copy is re- 

 ceived before the press is running. 



We get new subscribers every day but 

 the more the better for all hands. Every 

 new member is a probable purchaser 

 and is likely to get his neighbor into the 



game. We expect to send The Game 

 Breeder to twenty or twenty-five thou- 

 sand new people before the first of the 

 year and if the present percentage of 

 those to whom it is offered and who be- 

 come regular readers holds good, we 

 should have many thousand more regu- 

 lar readers by the end of the year. 



Many of our readers send subscrip- 

 tions for others. This is a good habit. 

 We also wish those who write to us to 

 send us lists of likely names. We try 

 each month to print enough copies for 

 all newcomers but the last month many 

 could not be supplied with the current 

 number and those who came to the office 

 towards the end of the month were told 

 that all copies were sold. As a food pro- 

 ducing industry game breeding is timely 

 and properly thriving. There will be a 

 shooting boom when the cruel war is 

 over. 



NOT THE RICH ONLY. 



It is not "only the rich," as Mr. Burn- 

 ham and other game politicians would 

 make it appear, who are producing game 

 abundantly in many of the United States. 

 There are many thousands of game far- 

 mers, many of them of small means, in- 

 cluding several hundred women. There 

 are thousands of sportsmen who have 

 formed game producing clubs. In some 

 cases the dues are only $15 per year. It 

 must be evident that the rich easily can 

 have an abundance of game on their 

 farms and country places. It is the 

 poorer classes who can only afford to 

 have game provided they can sell part of 

 their crop to help pay the cost of pro- 

 duction. We are very much surprised to 

 find Mr. Burnham attempting to excite 

 prejudice against the game farmers, rich 

 and poor, at this time when food pro- 

 duction should be and is popular. His 

 statement to the Congressional commit- 

 tee displays a remarkable lack of knowl- 

 edge of the subject. Thousands of mar- 

 ket gunners (by no means rich) shoot 

 and sell the migratory fowl taken on the 

 public waters in populous England, just 

 as our oystermen take and sell the fish. 



