T h ! Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. Entered as second-class matter. July q, iqts, at the Post Office, New York City, 



New York, under the Act ot March 3, i8jq 



VOLUME VIII 



NOVEMBER, I9J5 



CD 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 2 



"More Game" in Connecticut. 



Mr. E. C. Converse will make his 

 1,500 acres near Greenwich, Connecticut, 

 a bird sanctuary to aid the new national 

 movement for the conservation of bird 

 life. 



The World, N. Y, says "the work will 

 include the raising of wild ducks and the 

 winter feeding and protection of insec- 

 tivorous birds, this including the setting 

 out of nesting boxes and lessening the 

 enemies of birds' life. 



"Quail and grouse will be protected 

 from human hunters and other enemies. 

 Systematic feeding will prevent deaths 

 by starvation in severe winters. 



"Wild ducks will be raised upon an 

 extensive scale and measures taken to 

 make the lake of 100 acres especially at- 

 tractive to wild breeding pairs. The 

 squirrels, which now infest the great 

 stretches of woods, will be kept in 

 check." 



It is fortunate that Connecticut has a 

 Game Breeders' law and that there is no 

 danger of any one being arrested for 

 having birds "in possession." 



Good Game Laws in Connecticut. 



Mr. G. H. Scranton, Chairman of the 

 Legislative Committee of the Connecti- 

 cut Fish ar.d Game Protective Associa- 

 tion, properly placed the law permitting 

 the propagation and sale of wild fowl, 

 pheasants and deer at the head of his 

 game law changes in making the report 

 for his committee. The fact that the bag 

 limit on wild hares and rabbits (except 

 Belgian or German hares) is now tem- 

 porarily five per day or thirty-five per 

 year and the other bag limit and season 

 laws are interesting of course to the old- 

 time restrictionist and proper enough 



even if the laws are not executed. The 

 only objection we ever had to such laws 

 was that they tended "to protect the 

 game off the face of the earth" if breed- 

 ers were not excepted from the restric- 

 tions. The exception, as Mr. Scranton 

 points out, has been made in so far as 

 all wild fowl, deer and pheasants are 

 concerned. It will not be long we hope 

 before quail and grouse can be given the 

 chance to become abundant and cheap. 



Quail and Deer in Yonkers, N. Y. 



Yonkers adjoins the great City of 

 New York on the north. Street cars run 

 between the two cities and it is difficult 

 to tell where the greater city ends and 

 the smaller one begins. 



We had long known that there were 

 quail in Van Courtland Park, a New 

 York City Park which adjoins Yonkers. 

 Not long ago we read a story about a 

 Yonkers officer who went Quail shooting 

 in New York City and was arrested for 

 shooting within the city limits. 



Recently a story was printed in the 

 New York papers about the deer in- 

 vading the Yonkers gardens, upsetting 

 garbage barrels and becoming such a 

 general nuisance that the telephone bells 

 in police stations were kept ringing by 

 those who demanded policemen to "shoo" 

 the deer off their premises. 



In another clipping sent to The Game 

 Breeder the quail are said to "infest 

 many of the trees in the northern sec- 

 tions of Yonkers, and their musical call 

 of 'Bob-White' can be heard from early 

 morning until night-fall." 



Since it is out of the ordinary for deer 

 to eat abundantly from garbage cans in 

 back alleys and to require the attentions 

 of policemen, and since it is unusual for 



