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and he should come in promptly like any 

 other first-class passenger. The gray 

 partridges of Europe are shipped by the 

 thousand to English dealers, who hold 

 them in mews for a few days before 

 selling them. If political inspection is 

 deemed to be necessary for quail which 

 are presumed to be healthy it should be 

 made after the birds arrive at the mews 

 of the dealers. There is a chance of 

 some birds becoming diseased during a 

 long journey in small boxes. An inspec- 

 tion at the border will not change such 

 results. We think the quail regulations 

 as nonsensical as many of the migratory 

 bird regulations are, and neither are 

 creditable to the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



LET THE QUAIL COME IN. 



The time to prevent game birds or 

 other animals coming into a country is 

 when they have diseases or when there is 

 reason to presume they have them. An 

 industry should not be hampered and 

 prevented because some one, with an evi- 

 dent fondness for regulations, imagines 

 wild animals have a disease. They are 

 presumed to be healthy and almost cer- 

 tainly are healthy. Few animals have 

 better health than wild birds. We need 

 stock birds badly in this country on ac- 

 count of "fool game laws" in the various- 

 States. Let the quail come in ! 



A Wild Duck Dinner. 



The Game Conservation Society will 

 have a wild duck dinner during the lat- 

 ter part of November or early in Decem- 

 ber. Wild ducks will be discussed by 

 able^ authorities. Dr. Job will exhibit 

 moving .pictures of wild ducks. Mr. 

 Clyde Terrell, a Wisconsin member of 

 the Society, will discuss the planting and 

 growth of wild duck foods. He is an 

 . expert in this subject, and will visit many 

 Eastern game farms and preserves dur- 

 ing the week following the dinner. All 

 readers of the magazine who wish to 

 have invitations to this dinner will please 

 write to The Game Breeder promptly. 

 It is desired to have wild turkeys and 

 other game served. The date will be an- 



nounced later. It will be made to suit 

 some of the wild duck orators. Tickets, 



$5.00. 



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Game Farming for Profit and Pleasure. 



A manual on the wild turkeys, grouse, 

 quail or partridges, wild ducks, and 

 the introduced pheasants and gray 

 partridges ; with special reference to 

 their food habits, control of natural 

 enemies and the best methods of pre- 

 serving and breeding; including, also, 

 an appendix on powder, loads, etc. By 

 the author of "Our Feathered Game." 

 Fully illustrated with photographs and 

 many original drawings, by Clement B. 

 Davis. The Hercules Powder Co., 

 Wilmington, Delaware. 

 This is a most timely, well written and 

 well illustrated book. The writer is an 

 authority on practical game preservation 

 which is now attracting much attention 

 in the United States and Canada. 



The object of the book is well stated in 

 the Foreword: "This little book is of- 

 fered to the people of North America in 

 the hope that it will hasten the day when 

 our continent shall produce enough game 

 to supply abundant food, and health- 

 giving recreation. The author predicts 

 that America will eventually be the 

 greatest game producing country in the 

 world, and we believe he points the 

 logical way for the fulfillment of his 

 prophecy, * * * "Our laws have 

 said, 'You must not kill game,' instead 

 of, 'You may raise game.' * * * "In 

 promoting game breeding, the Hercules 

 Powder Company naturally considers its 

 own interests, but fortunately they are 

 inalienably linked with the country's 

 welfare in this important matter." 



The book opens with an account of the 

 former great abundance of game. North 

 America, the author says, had a greater 

 number and greater variety of wild food 

 birds than any country in the world. The 

 records cited seem almost incredible, but 

 they are authoritative. There is a chapter 

 on the many natural enemies of the 

 game and how they should be controlled 

 to provide good shooting. This is fol- 

 lowed by a chapter on wild turkey breed- 

 ing with references to places where the 



