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THE GAME BREEDER 



Gen. Trexler's Bison Herd. 



Martin S. Garretson, secretary of the 

 American Bison Society, organized for 

 the permanent preservation and increase 

 of the American bison and the protec- 

 tion of North American big game, has 

 called The World's attention to an error 

 in a recently published news dispatch 

 from Allentown, Pa. 



The article stated that Gen. Harry 

 C. Trexler's herd of forty-seven bison 

 was believed to be the largest on this 

 continent owned by an individual, rival- 

 ing those of the United States and Ca- 

 nadian Governments in the great game 

 preserves of the Rockies. Mr. Garret- 

 son names seven private herds in the 

 United States which exceed Gen. Trex- 

 ler's in size, the largest, numbering 700, 

 on the James Philip estate at Fort Pierre, 

 S. D. 



The United States Government, Mr. 

 Garretson says, has six bison herds, most 

 of them stocked by the American Bison 

 Society, the total number of animals be- 

 ing between seven and eight hundred. 

 The largest herd in the world, he says, 

 numbering 2.921, is in Buffalo Park at 

 Wainwright, Province of Alberta, Can- 

 ada. 



A Telegram. 



Editor Game Breeder : 



Congratulations on putting a little 

 common sense in the migratory law. 



Ohio Reader. 



[Bless your good heart we had very little 

 to do with it. We never went near the law 

 mill during the entire performance. We sus- 

 pect some of our readers throughout America 

 like yourself may have exerted a good influ- 

 ence. Very likely a man at South Bend, just 

 over the state line from where you live, may 

 have accomplished more than we did. We 

 can modestly say that some of our remarks 

 may have been suggestive. Like a certain 

 brand of fire water. "That's all." — Editor.] 



Where? 



It soon will be time for the "Where- 

 are-the-buffalo" lawyers to gather before 

 legislative committees, and, with signs 

 of great grief expressed in every look 

 and gesture, to ask the all-important 

 question which annually has been put to 



awe-stricken county and town legislators 

 for the last half century. 



"Where are the buffalo ? Gone ! 

 Gone ! Gone !" Just here we would re- 

 mark that one of our advertisers now 

 offers bison in car-load lots. 



"Hence we insist, gentlemen, that we 

 must have more restrictive laws to save 

 our rabbits and other vanishing wild 

 food propositions for sport. The fine 

 of $100 for killing a rabbit is far too 

 small ; the moiety of $50 per fur for fur 

 informers should be much increased. Too 

 often, gentlemen, the boy who kills a 

 rabbit escapes a jail sentence with a 

 paltry $100 fine. More laws ! more laws ! 

 are needed to save the vanishing wild 

 rabbit, etc., etc." 



We have no hope of stopping the 

 performance which annually costs the 

 States hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

 In all probability enough to feed the 

 world with game. In some States we 

 have been told that about one-third of 

 the time of the legislators is devoted 

 to game law changes. All we ask is that 

 when the performance goes on game 

 breeders be exempt, or if this is not pos- 

 sible in one or two States, that the laws 

 be made uniform and applied to poultry 

 as well as to game in those States. If 

 the last named must be protected, "off 

 the face of the earth," to be consistent, 

 States like Virginia should see that the 

 poultry goes with it. 



Sham Partridge Eggs. 

 An English dealer in pheasant foods 

 under the above heading says: "Many 

 contradictory statements have been made 

 with regard to the utility of sham part- 

 ridge eggs. Some keepers deny their 

 usefulness altogether, while others claim 

 great things for them if used in certain 

 ways. Without entering into these dis- 

 cussions we venture to state that pur- 

 chasers of our sham eggs during the past 

 few years have found them very valua- 

 ble. Many partridges' nests are lost 

 every season through the bird's unwise 

 choice of a site. If artificial nests are 

 made in positions where they will be safe 

 from floods and one or more of the sham 

 eggs are placed therein, partridges will 





