THE GAME BREEDER 



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Young Wild Ducks and Hen Foster Mother. 



they should be well compensated when 

 they make the game fields food-produc- 



ing fields. 



Rabbits. 



Many breeders of upland game birds 

 purchase rabbits and introduce them on 

 the game farms and preserves. Those 

 who really like to shoot often have a lot 

 of fun shooting the cottontails. Where 

 the rabbits are abundant it certainly is 

 quite worth while to keep a few beagles 

 and to give a day or two to rabbit shoot- 

 ing. The rabbits are desirable not only 

 for the sport they afford ; they are also 

 a great protection to the quail, grouse 

 and other game birds, since the foxes 

 and other vermin find the rabbits easier 

 to take than game birds are, and the 

 vermin, which will occur in spite of the 

 efforts of the best game keepers, must 

 have something to eat. 



Owen Jones, a talented English game 

 keeper and author, says : "It would be 

 a sorry prospect for keepers, game and 

 foxes if rabbits were exterminated, for 



they are the buffers of peace in the com- 

 munity of the woods." On another 

 page the same writer says : "The rabbits 

 are the foxes' bread and butter." 



Those who are starting game clubs- 

 and preserves should purchase and in- 

 troduce a lot of rabbits. They do not 

 'cost much. They are easily turned down- 

 and established. Our advertisers can 

 furnish them and the time to buy them; 

 is Now. 



Circumstantial Evidence. 



"Please, ma'am, your dog has killed 

 three of father's prize fowls," said the 

 small boy. 



"Oh, I'm quite sure my Fido would 

 never do such a thing," said the old lady. 



"But father saw one of the chickens 

 in his mouth," said the boy. 



"Purely circumstantial evidence," she 

 snapped, and the boy departed. 



Some time later he returned. 



"Please, ma'am, father sent me to tell 

 you that circumstantial evidence might 

 point to his having shot your dog, but he 



