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THE GAME BREEDER 



pet phrases, and this not only applies to 

 the game in the fields and woods for 

 sporting purposes but also to game on 

 the table as food. 



Since the State game officers in States 

 which have enacted game breeders laws 

 have good common sense it is hardly 

 likely that any breeder will be arrested 

 because his game is not bred in hot- 

 houses or unhealthy inclosures. The 

 truth of the matter is that the wild bred 

 birds are the cheapest as well as the best, 

 and, of course, many of them will fly out 

 of the "noisy sanctuaries" when game 

 breeding is undertaken for sport. 



Good game laws like bad ones seem to 

 be contagious and we predict that the 

 game breeders enactments will be in the 

 books of every State within the coming 

 year or as soon as the various legisla- 

 tures meet again. 



The victory is a big one. Very soon 

 it will be made complete. The readers 

 of The Game Breeder are to be con- 

 gratulated upon what they have accom- 

 plished. It is evident that "they did it." 

 No other sporting magazine has done 

 more than to remain respectfully silent. 

 It is evident that the laws are the best 

 in the States where The Game Breeder 

 has the largest circulation and that the 

 State game officers who have been long- 

 est on our subscription list have done the 

 best work in helping the "more game" 

 movement on its way. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The Game Breeder : 



Enclosed please find $1.00 for sub- 

 scription. I am with you. There is no 

 chance for game around this part of the 

 world, unless it becomes a commercial 

 asset to the owner of the land. 



My theory is the more game a farmer 

 has on his land in Connecticut to-day, the 

 more bonfires, cut fences and trespassers 

 he has, and that's all. The automobile 

 hunters think nothing of covering forty 

 miles to get at a covey of quail or par- 

 tridges. I am convinced if you want 

 game in Connecticut you must make it 

 money in the farmer's pocket and that 

 the game shall live on his land; and to 

 do this you must either permit him to 



sell the shooting, i. e., the birds alive, 

 or else permit him to shoot them him- 

 self and sell the birds dead. If anybody 

 with an automobile and a three dollar 

 gun could go out and shoot a cow be- 

 cause he found it in the woods, my own 

 impression is there would not be many 

 cows in Connecticut. W. S. P. 



Connecticut. 



You are right. Most farmers prefer 

 not to have game as bait for trespassers. 

 This is one of the reasons why the game 

 vanishes. It is an absurdity to say that 

 the State owns the game and to license 

 trespassers to shoot up the farms with- 

 out the consent of their owners. All 

 naturalists agree, also, that if any shoot- 

 ing is permitted the natural enemies of 

 the game and the dogs, cats, rats and 

 other vermin must be controlled to make 

 a place for the shooting. Otherwise 

 nature's balance is upset and the game 

 must disappear. Make it worth while 

 to look after the game; to protect it 

 from its enemies and from climatic 

 losses; to feed it in Winter and quickly 

 it will become abundant and remain so 

 although many deer and birds be shot and 

 sold every season. Sport has nothing to 

 fear from an abundance of game. The 

 shooting has been made good on many 

 inexpensive places. — Editor. 



The Game Breeder: 



I have not as yet received the last issue 

 of The Game Breeder, which I thought 

 perhaps was lost through the mails. 



I will be pleased to receive a copy of 

 same as I am interested in the propaga- 

 tion of wild game and your magazine 

 has many interesting items which are 

 valuable to any person raising game. 



Jos. W. Turner. 



Illinois. 



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We are gratified to learn that a num- 

 ber of game farms and preserves will 

 start next season with over a thousand 

 stock birds. The more the better, of 

 course. We have secured the game 

 keepers for a number of these places; 

 one will have nearly 5,000 stock birds at 

 the start, we are told. 



