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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?5 Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited bv DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 1918. 



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The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Hcntington, Secretary. 

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 Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



The bigger the shooting syndicate and 

 the smaller the dues the better. Every 

 one should get into the sport producing 

 and have some fine "sport alluring" on 

 the side. 



We are inclined to believe that Section 

 12 of the new Migratory Bird Law is 

 constitutional. This section reads : 

 "Nothing in this act shall be construed 

 to prevent the breeding of migratory 

 game birds on farms and preserves and 

 the sale of birds so bred under proper 

 regulation for the purpose of increasing 

 the food supply." This repair made to 

 the bill before it was enacted is inter- 

 esting and timely. 



Section 10 of the Migratory Bird Law 

 seems to indicate that the amateur who 

 wrote it might have constructed an un- 

 constitutional measure. It says: ''If 

 any clause, sentence, paragraph or part 

 of this act shall, for any reason, be ad- 

 judged by any court of competent juris- 

 diction to be invalid, such judgment shall 

 not affect, impair or invalidate the re- 

 mainder thereof.'' 



Possibly the Supreme Court may hold 

 that Congress has not the power to cre- 

 ate a new legislative assembly composed 

 of game law enthusiasts and to author- 

 ize such a new law-making body to make 



new United States crimes, "while you 

 wait," so to speak. The fact that these 

 new criminal laws must be sent ( like 

 laws made in the older Congress ) to the 

 President for his approval may make 

 them appear to have the same safeguard 

 that the old style criminal laws relat- 

 ing to murder and moonshine, etc., have. 

 In so far as the veto is concerned, this 

 is true, but how about sending people to 

 jail because they may be found guilty 

 of new crimes which have not been cre- 

 ated by the law-makers elected by the 

 people? Some courts regard crime as 

 a serious matter not to be multiplied 

 lightly or without the due consideration 

 of the duly elected law-makers. 



If someone happens to kill a mud 

 hen and to eat it at some season he 

 may start something in the courts. 



THE HOT BIRD AND THE COLD 

 BOTTLE. 



If the Congress is determined to make 

 the country bone-dry there is a certain 

 amount of propriety in the legislation 

 prohibiting any one in the District of 

 Columbia from eating a wild food bird 

 or having it in possession, as the 

 statutes read. 



The hot bird and the cold bottle long 

 have been associated in prose as well as 

 in song and poetry, and it seems fitting 

 that the foods which are very cheap in 

 civilized countries should go with the 

 beverages. Those who wish to eat a 

 grouse or a pheasant, a partridge or a 

 wild fowl, can run over to England, 

 France or any other free country after 

 the cruel war is over and there they will 

 find more freedom in the matter of eating 

 than there is in the land of the free. 

 The wines of France also go especially 

 well with any of the best human foods, 

 endorsed by' all real naturalists. There 

 was a time to be sure when it was fash- 

 ionable to imprison and even to execute 

 women because they stole some raiment 

 to clothe starving, naked children. Even 

 at such times women were not arrested, 

 as they have been in America, and fined 

 and jailed for producing food on their 

 lands or for having the stock birds or 



