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counties remaining are Philadelphia and 

 Delaware. The first named has no 

 shooting district and' the second has no 

 grouse. 



In due time it seems likely all of the 

 counties may become like the last two. 

 It would be a good time to start some 

 grouse clubs, look after the birds and 

 perpetuate field sports, keeping the state, 

 open for all hands, just as the Long 

 Island quail clubs keep the quail shoot- 

 ing on the island open for everybody. 

 Who will look after the grouse properly 

 during the" closed season? The foxes, 

 hawks, crows, skunks, dogs, cats, and a 

 good number of other "varmints," no 

 doubt, including some illegal shooters, 

 who cannot resist the chance to pot a 

 grouse, will keep busy. There is a bet- 

 ter . way of preserving field sports and 

 game than by turning it over to its 

 natural enemies for terms of years. Who 

 will purchase guns or ammunition in 

 Pennsylvania? Who will purchase bird 

 dogs during the closed season? 



Is it not a bad time just now to put 

 an end to a desirable food supply and to 

 prohibit the production of the food ? All 

 clubs and individuals* who have plenty of 

 grouse on their places should be excepted 

 when the prohibition laws are enacted. 



Ohio State Game Officer. Resigns. 



General. John C. Speaks, State Game 

 Warden for Ohio, has resigned and will 

 become a candidate for Congress. 'Gen- 

 eral Speaks succeeded in getting pheas- 

 ant breeding well started in Ohio. There 

 are between five hundred and a thousand 

 breeders, and we believe the State 

 Warden provided eggs and birds for 

 many who under a 50-cent license have 

 the right to breed, shoot and sell 

 pheasants. 



Had the quail been included in the 50- 

 cent license, or had the title of the quail 

 been transferred to the farmers, quail 

 shooting would not have been prohibited 

 in Ohio, and we believe the quail could 

 be found in the Ohio markets today. 

 Since the game is in charge of the Board 

 of Agriculture in Ohio it should be an 

 easy matter to turn over these birds to 



the farmers and make the birds a farm 

 asset, as they should be, and let the 

 sportsmen form Shooting clubs to pay 

 the farmers' taxes for the right to pro- 

 duce and shoot quail on the farms. 

 Plans and specifications furnished free 

 by The Game Breeder with references 

 to farmers in other states who like the 

 sportsmen who deal with them. 



Getting Ready for More Laws. 



Mr. V. C. Buell, field secretary of a 

 Wisconsin Game Protective Association, 

 concludes an appeal for members thus : 

 "Send in your club application at your 

 earliest convenience. Remember, it is 

 numbers that count in legislative mat- 

 ters." 



Why go in for more laws when it is 

 evident that they do not produce or even 

 save quail shooting ? It would be a good 

 idea to encourage some game production 

 in every county in the state. 



Wisconsin can be made a very fine 

 state for prairie grouse shooting, pro- 

 vided the farmers and sportsmen will 

 work together on a few places and will 

 produce the grouse. These are among 

 the easiest and'the cheapest birds to pro- 

 duce. All that is necessary is to know 

 how to do it and to be able to keep out 

 of jail for the crime of food production. 

 Wisconsin protective associations may 

 have a fine time" next Winter getting a 

 few dozen or a few score more game 

 laws, but in war times at least the sports- 

 men should not provide for the arrest 

 of food producers. Possibly the Wis- 

 consin farmers will wake up. If they 

 do they will either put all the farm game 

 birds in the song bird list or decide that 

 they may be made a valuable farm asset. 



Important New York Law for Breeders 



The following amendment to the New 

 York conservation law is in the right 

 direction : 



"The commission may also issue a license 

 revocable at pleasure to any person, per- 

 mitting such person to take and possess any 

 species of fish, game birds, quadrupeds or 

 aquatic animals, protected by •this chapter, for 

 propagation purposes, upon payment of a 

 license fee of one dollar. The commission 



