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THE GAME BREEDER 



recently created to promote the breeding 

 of the wild food birds. 



Moving pictures of wild ducks and 

 other wild fowl by Dr. Herbert K. Job, 

 author of "Propagation of Wild Birds," 

 will be exhibited. 



Mr. Clyde B. Terrell, of Wisconsin, 

 will speak on "The Natural Foods of 

 Wild Ducks and Their Planting." Mr. 

 Terrell is an expert on this subject and 

 will visit some of the Eastern clubs and 



preserves. 



Hon. J. W. Titcomb, State Game Com- 

 missioner of Vermont, will speak on 

 duck breeding in his State. 



Mr. E. A. Quarles, vice-president of 

 the American Game Protective Associa- 

 tion, will speak on the "New Depart- 

 ment of Game Breeding" created by his 

 association. 



The meeting will be informal, the ob- 

 ject being to bring together those who 

 are interested in game breeding for sport 

 and for profit. 



Tickets for the dinner, $5.00. Read- 

 ers of The Game Breeder can procure 

 invitations by writing to the secretary of 

 the society, J. C. Huntington, The Game 

 Breeder, 150 Nassau street, New York. 



Quail from Mexico. 



Our common potato, a plant native in 

 the Andes from Chile to Columbia and 

 as far north as New Mexico, though 

 scarcely known until the 17th century, 

 has become through the industry of pro- 

 ducers a large part of the food of civil- 

 ized man. Had the potatoes been held up 

 everywhere for fear of some disease 

 which no doubt many plants have, the 

 potato would not have become an im- 

 portant foods. 



Much is written nowadays about the 

 high prices of meats. Quail can be made 

 an abundant food just as the gray part- 

 ridges have been made an abundant 

 food in Great Britain and on the Conti- 

 nent of Europe, where tons of partridges 

 are taken annually. Many thousands 

 are shipped as food to other countries. 

 Restrictive laws have prohibited the pro- 

 curing of quail, even for propagation, 

 throughout the United States, and as 

 Dr. Shufeldf, the naturalist, has well ob- 



served, we are "pro acting the game off 

 the face of the earth." Stock birds in 

 abundance are for sale in Mexico and 

 every inducement should be extended to 

 bring them into the United States for 



propagation. 



♦ 



Handsome Hangers. 



The Du Pont Powder Company has 

 issued three beautiful hangers in color. 

 One illustrates trap shooting, one repre^ 

 sents snipe shooting, and the third is 

 made up. of several pictures representing 

 the various uses of Du Pont explosives 

 for blasting and shooting. These pic- 

 tures are all good and well worth hav- 

 ing. 



It is gratifying to 1 have Senator Mc- 

 Lean, author of the migratory bird law, 

 write that he thinks well of The Game 

 Breeder. An extract from his letter is 

 printed on our correspondence page. 



We hope the Senator will agree with 

 us that it is not desirable to have the 

 migratory law elaborated so as to make 

 a lot of foolish criminal rules, lacking 

 in uniformity, which suggest the at- 

 tempts of the State legislatures to save 

 the game by making numerous "fool 

 laws." 



Complaints still are coming to The 

 Game Breeder about the "fool regula- 

 tions," relating to the importation of 

 quail, made by a regulation enthusiast 

 of the U, S. Agricultural Department. 

 Quail for propagation are much needed 

 in the United States. The regulations 

 are ridiculous. 



Hungarians in Alberta, Canada. 



About $1,500 or $2,000 worth of Hun- 

 garian partridges were delivered in the 

 Calgary district about four years ago 

 and a smaller quantity to other districts. 



In the Calgary district these birds have 

 become reasonably plentiful. I doubt the 

 advisability of throwing the season open,. 

 however, but trust that the matter can be 

 handled so as to prevent an undue 

 slaughter of these useful little birds. 



Ben. J. Lawton, 

 Chief Game Guardian. 



Edmonton, Alberta. 



