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THE GAME BREEDER 



Advice to State Departments. 



Our advice to the State Departments 

 is : "Go in for wild ducks heavy." They 

 are easy to rear. Our advertisers can 

 furnish tens of thousands of ducks and 

 eggs. Don't stint the dear people in the 

 matter of wild ducks. Start the State 

 duck farm in the Northern part of the 

 State. The sportsmen will then have 

 several chances at the State ducks as 

 they go South. We would suggest that 

 the ducks be permitted to 'return quietly 

 in the spring and that the shooting be 

 ended not later than February 15. Feb- 

 ruary 1 or January 15 would be even 

 better. 



Distribute many ducks and eggs to 

 the farmers who have ponds, with bul- 

 letins telling them how to rear them. Let 

 them bang away at the stock in the 

 autumn and set it going so that outsiders 

 can have a chance to shoot. Require 

 them to market some of the toothsome 

 food so that the dear people (in whom 

 we take much interest) can have wild 

 ducks to eat. They quickly will become 

 friendly to sport and incidentally to the 

 State Department, which should repre- 

 sent "all the people all of the time." 



We predict that it will not be long 

 before any State Department which does 

 not keep the markets full of wild ducks 

 at attractive prices will be bounced for 

 incompetence. 



Two "Bangs"— $200. 



"Bang!" an English pheasant dropped 

 and Dr. J. Cor win Mabey, of Montclair, 

 N. J., dropped $100. 



"Bang!" Dr. Mabey's gun sounded 

 again, another pheasant fell and the doc- 

 tor was out another $100. 



Dr. Mabey and the Rev. Dr. Thomas 

 Travis, pastor of the Watchung Avenue 

 Congregational Church, Montclair, were 

 snipe shooting near Hanover, N. J., yes- 

 terday. The pheasants were flushed. 

 Dr. Mabey brought down the brace in 

 fine style. 



Soon after the doctor and clergyman 

 encountered State Warden Young and a 

 deputy who informed them the open sea- 

 son for pheasants in Jersey is only be- 

 tween November 10 and December 15 

 inclusive. 



Going willingly before Justice of the 

 Peace Ketchell at Hanover, Dr. Mabey 

 assumed all responsibility and was fined 

 $100 for each pheasant. Pheasants are 

 expensive, but Dr. Mabey will appeal to 

 the State Game and Fish Commission on 

 the ground that the fine is excessive. — 

 Evening World N. Y. 



New Jersey Justice. 



When you hunt 

 snipes kill snipes, is 

 advice of preacher 

 and doctor of Mont- 

 clair, who were fined 

 $200 for killing two 

 pheasants through 

 mistake. — Evening 

 World, N. Y. 



Lucky Escapes. 



All the little $100 annoyances they 

 have in New Jersey for killing a rabbit, 

 a pheasant, etc., are avoided by game 

 breeders who now make their own bag 

 limits and season limits and shoot hun- 

 dreds of rabbits and pheasants, ducks, 

 etc., in a day if they wish to do so. Game 

 breeders do not require any attention 

 from State game policemen. It is a great 

 saving to the State that no officers are 

 required to arrest and fine ministers and 

 doctors and others, including rabbit 

 shooting boys, who* shoot on the game 

 farms and preserves in New Jersey. The 

 police can give all of their time to public 

 lands and waters. 



A $100 Duck. 



The honor of killing the first wood- 

 duck in New Jersey for the last half cen- 

 tury, the New York Tribune says, cost 

 Harry Barber, of Paterson, $100. The 

 court had trouble in deciding if the bird 

 killed was a wood-duck and the case was 

 adjourned to procure evidence. At the 

 second hearing Inspector Miller, of the 

 Museum of Natural History, brought 

 two mounted ducks, a teal and a wood- 

 duck, and the court decided a wood-duck 

 had been killed and imposed a fine of 

 $100. 



Wood-ducks should be abundant and 

 cheap in the markets and soon they will 

 be, no doubt. Many readers of The 





