T h f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly. 



Entered as second-class matter. July g, 1915, at the Post Office, New York City, 

 New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 



VOLUME VIII 



OCTOBER, J9J5 

 SURVEY OF THE FIELD. 



NUMBER 1 



Our Policy. 



The object of the Game Conservation 

 Society and its publication, The Game 

 Breeder, is to make North America the 

 biggest game producing country in the 

 world. 



Since this number of the magazine 

 will be read by hundreds of new sub- 

 scribers we re-state what we have often 

 said before. It is evident that the game 

 can not be made abundant and the shoot- 

 ing can not be made good by simply en- 

 acting restrictive game laws. Even if 

 these laws could be fully executed and 

 if every violator could be arrested t^e 

 laws would not result in game becoming 

 abundant. All scientists know that if 

 we add to the causes of destruction, 

 even slightly, or add new checks to the 

 increase of any species the species must 

 vanish and in time it will become extinct. 

 It is evident that a little shooting by 

 . many guns is a decided check to the in- 

 crease of the game and it is well known 

 that dogs, cats and rats are additional 

 causes of destruction due to civilization. 

 The destruction of natural foods and 

 covers, the draining of ponds and 

 marshes, the losses due to fires and 

 floods and to wires and farm machinery, 

 all tend to decrease the game supply in 

 places where the game is not properly 

 looked after. These losses are not af- 

 fected by game laws. 



Where game is propagated and pro- 

 tected from its natural enemies and from 

 the losses due to domestic vermin and to 

 the other causes mentioned it becomes 

 abundant quickly and remains so al- 

 though thousands of birds be shot every 

 season. The sportsmen, therefore, 

 should form inexpensive shooting clubs 

 and look after the game on the farms 



which are now posted, with the approval 

 of their owners who should be compen- 

 sated. 



The production of an abundance of 

 game on places where shooting now is 

 prohibited will result in its becoming 

 abundant on the wild lands and public 

 waters and on many private lands which 

 are open to the public, and also on lands 

 where permission to shoot is granted. 



The country is large: there is no dan- 

 ger of its all being preserved. One or 

 two shooting clubs in every county will 

 result in the shooting being made good 

 throughout the country. The "noisy re- 

 fuge" will produce "more game" than 

 the quiet refuges advocated by senti- 

 mentalists, and it is evident that the same 

 area when so used will produce excellent 

 shooting for thousands of guns. Our 

 readers who provide good shooting are 

 doing a public service since under the 

 game breeders laws they sell some of the 

 game they produce and this tends to 

 make the people friendly to sport. Shoot- 

 ing can be restored on vast areas where 

 it now is prohibited. 



"More Game" on Long Island. 



Field sports have been preserved on 

 Long Island, N. Y., and it is interesting 

 and instructive to learn that the game is 

 increasing. The sportsmen of Ohio and 

 other prohibition States can learn much 

 from the sportsmen of Long Island. 

 Many attempts have been made to pro- 

 hibit quail shooting: but the members of 

 the Long Island Shooting Clubs, aided 

 by The Game Breeder, met these at- 

 tempts and secured a law increasing the 

 bag limit. This applies not only to the 

 club grounds where the supply of game 

 is kept up, but also to the rest of the 



