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THE GAME ^REEDER 



T^ e Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1918. 



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 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc. 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W. Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotio, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 

 E. Dayton, Advertising Manager. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



TO THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



We would urge the Survey to read 

 Section 12 of the new law. 



To make a regulation that no birds 

 bred on preserves can be shot in order 

 to increase the food supply is to pro- 

 vide that there shall be no preserves and 

 we believe that the courts will hold that 

 those who breed birds under laws en- 

 couraging them to take breeding stock 

 should own the young and supply the 

 people with the food. Had the legisla- 

 tors intended to say birds can only be 

 bred on game farms the section would 

 have omitted the words "game pre- 

 serves." If it appears to the court that 

 the shooting causes the abundance of the 

 cheap food, we do not believe the court 

 will say that a gentleman who doesn't 

 want any preserves or the sale of game 

 which goes with them has the right, 

 sitting as an independent law maker, to 

 make a criminal statute (for such will 

 be the regulation) providing that a pre- 

 serve owner shall be arrested provided 

 he shoots his ducks and sells the food 

 to the people at prices cheaper than 

 poultry. The laws says preserves. Who 

 ever heard of a game preserve without 

 shooting? 



Our readers will remember that we 

 feared what would happen provided the 

 Congress ' delegated its crime making 

 power to a few game laws enthusiasts, 



some of whom admit that they have 

 been making a living procuring game 

 laws and protecting game for many 

 years. 



Having fully explained to the Con- 

 gress that we don't want any preserves 

 or the sale of game or any cheap food 

 in America, the Congress decided to 

 mention preserves in the law and to indi- 

 cate that food production should be en- 

 couraged and not prevented by the pre- 

 serve methods. 



It seems incredible when reading the 

 statute to think that the courts will hold 

 that the Congress intended to abolish all 

 the club shoots and preserves which 

 have been supplying^ food to the mar- 

 kets. The regulation (or criminal law), 

 made by the fellow who doesn't want food 

 production, may cause the courts to de- 

 cide that United States crimes should 

 not be made by one man even if he gets 

 two other private citizens to approve of 

 his conduct and puts the thing through 

 in the shape of a regulation. Are the peo- 

 ple to be arrested for crimes so made ? 



No Game Farming, No Breeding, No 

 Game Keepers, No Food Wanted! 



The country places, shooting clubs, 

 syndicates and preserves are the best 

 customers of the game farmers and 

 game breeders, big and small. They 

 purchase eggs in the spring and birds in 

 the summer, fall and winter. 



To say that we don't want any game 

 preserves in this country or the sale of 

 game that goes with them, as Mr. Burn- 

 ham, the president of the Game Protec- 

 tive Association, recently said, to a 

 congressional committee, is in effect to 

 say we don't want any customers for 

 game farmers or game breeders and we 

 don't want any game keepers employed 

 in America. 



To say that we don't want any sales 

 of food just now, knowing that such 

 sales surely will result in a great abun- 

 dance of food, and stating that such has 

 been the result in countries which have^ 

 game laws founded on common sense, is 

 a peculiar form of patriotism. It looks 

 more to us like small politics. 



