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THE GAME BREEDER 



in New Mexico, east to Joplin, Mo., and 

 north into southern Saskatchewan in 

 Canada. Three birds banded in 1914 

 were killed by hunters during 1916, and 

 another released at the same time was 

 reported in 1917, so that there can be 

 no doubt that the birds treated recovered 

 fully. 



Valuable information has been ob- 



tained from reports on these banded 

 ducks as to the lines of flight pursued 

 by waterfowl during their migrations. 

 This is of the greatest importance, and 

 it is desired that sportsmen or others who 

 chance to kill these banded birds send 

 immediately full details to the Biological 

 Survey as to the number of the band, 

 together with date and place of capture. 



THE GAME AND THE FARMER. 



Henry M. Brigham. 



The Game Breeder is right. Game, 

 excepting only migratory birds, must 

 have a profitable market value if it is 

 ever again to be plentiful. The farmer 

 alone can produce it and by no other 

 argument can he be persuaded. A profit- 

 able market only will not suffice, how- 

 ever. His right to the game which he 

 has produced must be protected just as 

 fully as is his right to his chickens, 

 ducks, turkeys and other domestic ani- 

 mals. If grouse, quail and pheasants are 

 to be plentiful, the farmer must provide 

 suitable covers, supply food when 

 needed and keep down the vermin. This 

 involves labor and expense which he 

 will not undertake unless he knows that 

 the birds he has raised are just as much 

 his property as his chickens, ducks and 

 turkeys and that when he has produced 

 them he can sell them in the market at 



a profit. There is no thickly populated 

 country in the world where game is 

 plentiful, except where the ownership of 

 the land owner in the game upon his 

 lands is fully recognized and the game 

 has a market value. The existing laws 

 which prohibit poaching on posted 

 land are wholly inadequate to meet the 

 situation. No one should be permitted 

 to shoot the farmer's game without his 

 permission and adequate penalty should 

 be provided which would fully protect 

 him. If such laws were enforced there 

 would be game a'plenty for everyone in 

 a few years. The farmer would be 

 benefited and so would the sportsman 

 as shooting ri°fhts could be obtained at 

 small cost. Why not go to the root of 

 the matter and pass laws that would 

 stimulate production rather than restric- 

 tive laws which discourage it? 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



Deer Breeding Booming. 



We were desirous of procuring 

 or two carloads of deer recently 

 wrote to our advertisers whom 

 thought could furnish them. Since none 

 could furnish any good number of deer 

 for immediate delivery we extended our 

 inquiry to a large number of deer breed- 



one 



and 



we 



ers who are members of the society but 

 who do not advertise, probably because 

 they do not wish to answer a large mail 

 and can sell all their deer without adver- 



tising. 



One member wrote that he had just 

 sold three or four hundred deer, all that 

 he wished to part with, but that he could 



