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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, NOVEMBER, 1915 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy — $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 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. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Hcntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



The dean of sportsmen, Charles Hal- 

 lock, called loudly for "a revolution of 

 thought and a revival of common sense." 

 The call was and still is timely. 



the Issue of Permits for Quail Imported 

 into the United States from Northeast- 

 ern Mexico provides : 



"Bodies of birds which die during the 

 period of quarantine or during the voyage to- 

 New York must not be destroyed until sub- 

 mitted to the Inspector for preliminary ex- 

 amination, and if necessary such specimens 

 will be forwarded to the Department for 

 further examination." 



No more certain way of spreading a 

 disease can be devised than the saving 

 of the bodies of diseased animals. The 

 quicker they are destroyed by fire or 

 buried the better, unless, of course, the 

 specimens be preserved by skilled hands 

 for scientific purposes. We regard it as 

 a mistake for the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment to say, "Birds which die must not 

 be destroyed," etc. 



We are sending copies of "Game 

 Farming for Profit and Pleasure" to 

 readers of The Game Breeder, with the 

 compliments of the Hercules Powder 

 Company. The book is reviewed on an- 

 other page by Mr. A. A. Hill. 



A GOOD DINNER. 



Our wild duck dinner, referred to on 

 another page, promises to be the most 

 remarkable dinner held in New York for 

 many moons. Various kinds of game 

 will be served and this would have been 

 impossible before the enactment of the 

 game breeders' law in New York. The 

 dinner will illustrate one of the many 

 benefits due to the "more game move- 

 ment." 



A QUAIL NOTE. 



One of our readers who wishes to im- 

 port quail from Mexico, referring to the 

 regulations of the Biological Survey, 

 says: 



"You can readily see that the regula- 

 tions are arranged so as to make it almost 

 impossible for a man to import quail 

 without taking the risk of having a heavy 

 loss and I believe it is arranged with the 

 intention of discouraging importers from 

 investing too much money and capturing 

 many quail." 



We need the quail ; in our opinion the 

 regulations are rotten. 



DEAD BIRDS. 



An under-keeper known to keep above- 

 ground a bird which evidently died from 

 disease would certainly be discharged 

 promptly by a competent head-keeper. 



Regulation 5 of the Regulations for 



THE FUR SEAL FISHERIES. 



After long controversy, accompanied 

 by much acrimonious debate, over the 

 management of the government fur seal 

 fisheries in Bering Sea, we have a report 

 by the new "unprejudiced" commission 

 sent to the Pribilof Islands to ascertain 

 the facts. The agitation, started about 

 three years ago in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, resulted in the prohibition of 

 killing of male seals on the islands for a 

 term of five years. The Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, and its advisory board of natural- 

 ists who had studied the seal herd on the 

 Pribilof Islands were opposed to the law, 

 believing that the practice of the gov- 

 ernment in killing surplus males on land, 

 had no effect on the breeding stock of 

 seals. The annual loss of females 

 through pelagic, or ocean sealing had 

 been long decimating the herd, and in 

 1911 the United States, Great Britain, 

 Russia, and Japan prohibited by treaty 



