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THE GAME BREEDER 



is so destructive at the dove cote or poul- 

 try yard. The No. l l / 2 Jump Trap is 

 very satisfactory and so easily concealed. 

 The owl often leaves a dove or chicken 

 half eaten and returns the next night to 

 eat the balance, in which case the trap 

 should be set using some of the unfin- 

 ished meal as a covering for the trap. 

 When unable to find the remains of a 

 previous meal a good set is to take a long 

 pole or stake and set it up in the corner 

 of fence or near the poultry house in 

 position to make an attractive place for 

 the owl to alight, preferably slightly 

 higher than poultry house, using a board 

 5x6 inches nailed on the end of pole for 

 platform to set on. The trap should be 

 covered by feathers or a small bird or 

 skin of bird. If an English sparrow is 

 used for bait one on two of the very 

 small feathers of a light colored chicken 

 attract the attention of the owl. The 

 board platform would be more satisfac- 

 tory if old and dull in color. With very 

 little cunning on the part of the trapper 

 there should be no difficulty in being 

 very successful in making a catch. 



M. J. Newhouse. 



Crows and Corn. 



You say that this year the crows have 

 pulled your corn in spite of the tar. I 

 had the same experience a number of 

 years ago, and I finally became convinced 

 that the tar was not of so much account 

 as the substance that was used to dry 

 it out. I now use air-slaked lime for a 

 drier, and the crows never trouble the 

 corn. Every year they pull a few sam- 

 ple hills and then let it alone. If corn 

 is soaked in water long enough so that 

 the lime will stick, the lime alone is just 

 as effectual without the tar, but if used 

 in a planter it will rust the metal parts, 

 which it probably will not do if the tar 

 is used so as to stick it thoroughly to the 

 corn. — S. S. Chandler in Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



The best possible remedy for crows is 

 to have some game on the farm and 

 some one to look after the game. The 

 crows will not get much corn or even 

 many bird eggs when a keeper is on the 

 ground to se'e that they do not steal 

 game eggs. Since the game can be made 



very profitable in the many States which 

 have enacted game breeders' laws the 

 farmer should easily arrange to dispense 

 with the labor of replanting tarred corn. 



There are hundreds of thousands of 

 acres in the United States where the 

 crow is now controlled by game keepers. 

 We know many places where the farms 

 have been made exempt from taxes as 

 well as from crows by sportsmen who 

 deal fairly with the land owners. 



At the preserve of the Game Breeders 

 Association the crows traveling over soon 

 learned that the land was dangerous and 

 it was amusing to see them elevate their 

 flight when they reached the preserve. 



A New Game-Saver Proposed. 

 A correspondent of Outdoor Life sug- 

 gests as a game saver a federal small- 

 game license fee, "at say $5 ; a license 

 fee for big game $10," good in any State 

 in the Union. He would limit the game 

 bag in any State to not more than fifteen 

 birds per day. Five million guns taking 

 15 each for a few days would probably 

 take every feather on all of the farms 

 not posted. Even two or three birds per 

 diem is too many in States which have 

 not enacted game breeders' laws and 

 where there is no production. 



The Dog Question. 



Editor The Farmers' Review : 



I want to tell readers my experience 

 with dogs and turkeys. A year ago I 

 had 78 young turkeys hatched. When 

 they were six weeks old I had not lost 

 one. Then a neighbor's bird dog got 

 among them and after twice attacking 

 them I had eight turkeys left. I raised 

 these eight and a few late ones, and I 

 was not the only one that lost turkeys in 

 this way. 



Bird dogs that are allowed to run at 

 large destroy more quail, prairie chicken 

 and turkey nests and young fowls than 

 all the men and guns in a whole hunting 

 season. If the farmer's wife cannot have 

 her poultry protected as well as wild 

 fowls it is about time something was 

 done to make a law to that effect. 



Mrs. Minnie Shacklee. 



Jasper County, 111. 



