T he Game Breeder 



VOLUME XIII 



SEPTEMBER, 1918 

 CD 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 6 



Meeting of State Game Officers. 



The State Game Officers will meet in 

 New York this month and it is to be 

 hoped that some patriotic action may be 

 taken looking to an increase in the num- 

 ber of American game birds and animals 

 as a food supply. When the war started 

 wild fowl and upland game birds were 

 cheaper in England than poultry. The 

 delicious teal was quoted in the market 

 reports as low as a shilling and larger 

 ducks, pheasants and other upland game 

 birds were plentiful and absurdly cheap. 

 Every one (including market gunners ) 

 is allowed to shoot and sell wild fowl 

 in England. 



The owners of large country places, 

 the owners of small farms, the big pre- 

 serves and the club syndicates which 

 owned or rented shooting places and 

 thousands of market gunners all con- 

 tributed to make the game cheap and 

 abundant. 



Since the entire area of the British 

 Isles is much smaller than some of our 

 states and the ponds and lakes suitable 

 for duck breeding are few in number 

 and area when compared to such places 

 in America, it is quite evident that a 

 very little of our desolate lands and 

 waters, where little or no game occurs, 

 can be made to produce quickly all the 

 game our people can eat. 



Many game farmers in England al- 

 ways stand ready to supply the shoots 

 with birds and eggs for breeding and 

 shooting purposes. There now are many 

 game farmers in America who can sup- 

 ply the clubs of sportsmen with birds 

 and eggs. All that is needed is for the 

 sportsmen to get busy under the advice 

 and encouragement of their state officers 

 and to organize game producing clubs, 



and it is to be hoped that the state game 

 officers will lend the food producers 

 every encouragement. Trap shooting 

 clubs purchase their targets and own or 

 rent their shooting grounds. No good 

 reason can be assigned why the game 

 shooting clubs should not purchase birds 

 and eggs from the game farmers who 

 advertise in the Game Breeder and get 

 busy producing game on some of the 

 posted farms, with their owners' per- 

 mission, of course. There is no good 

 reason why they should not produce 

 millions of wild fowl about small ponds 

 where no ducks are seen today, some of 

 which may be drained and lost to sport 

 forever if they be not utilized. 



The game protective societies find it 

 easy to procure more game laws. The 

 game producing clubs find it easy to 

 procure "more game." 



Moving Pictures. 



It is reported that George Bates, mov- 

 ing picture maker, will make films illus- 

 trating field trial clogs at work on the 

 prairie. People who have seen the thor- 

 oughbreds go into action at a field trial 

 know how picturesque and interesting 

 such pictures can be made, and many 

 sportsmen will be delighted to see the 

 setters and the pointers at the movies. 



Ruffed Grouse in Pennsylvania. 



The Field says all but eleven coun- 

 ties in Pennsylvania have asked for the 

 closing of the hunting of ruffed grouse 

 for two years. Nine of the eleven coun- 

 ties have sent word that they will have 

 their papers on file asking for the clos- 

 ing of grouse shooting and the two 



