THE GAME BREEDER 



63 



Obeying the Game Laws. Rome, N. Y 



— From The World. 



birds are kept plentiful for sport and for 

 profit. Other chapters deal with the 

 grouse of the open country, the wood- 

 land grouse, the quails or partridges and 

 the introduced pheasants and wild fowl. 



The author points out how grouse and 

 quail can be made and kept plentiful on 

 places where their natural foods and 

 covers are restored. He lists many of 

 the foods; refers to the enemies of each 

 species and tells how they should be con- 

 trolled. The hand rearing of pheasants 

 and jyild ducks is described in the chap- 

 ters on these birds. The book ends with 

 an appendix on the loads suggested for 

 field shooting which adds much to the 

 value and importance of the work. 



Although the book is evidently issued 

 as an advertisement and is for free dis- 

 tribution, it is a most valuable treatise on 

 an important subject which now engages 

 the attention of the sportsmen of North 

 America. The Hercules Powder Com- 

 pany has done a great public service in 

 publishing this manual. The numerous 

 illustrations add much to the value of the 

 work. 



A. A. Hill. 



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"More game laws" too often means 

 "more nonsense." 



When the Minister Comes to Dine. 



The New York Herald says the poul- 

 try of New York, the regular cluckers 

 and strutters, are to be bigger and better 

 from every standpoint if the State Col- 

 lege at Cornell has its determined way. 

 A breed testing station has been installed 

 there and New York is to see some 

 chickens it will not soon forget. 



Many will recall the case of Toby 

 Shay's hen. It was he who explained : 



"I had a pretty little hen, 

 The minister he ate her; 

 She left no weeping parents, for 

 They were an incubator." 



Since tons of game birds, including 

 wild turkeys and the smaller toothsome 

 pheasants, wild ducks, quail, grouse and 

 other game are now produced in New 

 York, we feel sure the game birds soon 

 will give the "regular cluckers and strut- 

 ters" a run for their money "when the 

 minister comes to dine." 



Crime is a serious matter. It seems 

 too bad to have hundreds of alleged new 

 game law crimes made every year when 

 in most cases the element of wrong-doing 

 is absent. 



