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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 

 Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1915 

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 To All Foreign Countries and Canada, $1.25. 



The Game Conservation Society, Inc., 

 publishers, 150 nassau st., new york 



D. W, Huntington, President, 



F. R. Peixotto, Treasurer, 



J. C. Huntington, Secretary. 



Telephone, Beekman 3685. 



One of our Connecticut readers, in 

 sending his subscription for The Game 

 Breeder, asks to have it sent also to an- 

 other person named. He says : "I think 

 it is a mighty good publication." 



Our readers often send us new names 

 and it is gratifying to observe that if a 

 reader misses receiving a number we are 

 sure to hear from him promptly. The 

 call for back numbers has entirely ex- 

 hausted our supply of many of them and 

 we especially regret not being able to 

 supply complete files for scientific associ- 

 ations and libraries. 



unusual double on rabbits when shooting; 

 in northern Ohio. Not long afterward 

 we read an authentic account of an Eng- 

 lishman who made a double on rabbits, 

 killing two with each barrel. Another 

 English sportsman once kicked up and 

 shot a rabbit at 25 yards. To his sur- 

 prise he found he had killed a hare by 

 the same shot, her "form" being in the 

 line of fire. At Beverly a shooter fired 

 at a hare and killed it, when a rabbit 

 was seen to leap up a few yards further 

 and to tumble over dead. There are 

 two English records of an unseen rabbit 

 being killed when a grouse was shot at. 

 In one case, when the grouse was picked 

 up "a rabbit was found kicking close 

 by;" in the other case when the grouse 

 was missed "a rabbit came rolling down 

 the brae." 



Mr. Alfred Ware, while rabbit shoot- 

 ing on his father's warren, fired at a 

 rabbit crossing a bog. On going to pick 

 it up he found he had also killed a jack 

 snipe. So the story of shooting at a 

 woodcock and killing a rabbit may be 

 true. We would advise the standing 

 committee on fakes and fakers to pro- 

 ceed cautiously with its investigation. 



ODD SHOTS. 



Although the story (cited on another 

 page) about the remarkable shot at a 

 woodcock which resulted in the death 

 of a rabbit was referred to the standing 

 committe on nature fakes and fakers, we 

 should remember that truth often is 

 stranger than fiction. Mark Twain's 

 story of the Allen revolver, which, when 

 fired at the deuce of spades tacked on 

 a tree, bagged a mule 40 yards to the 

 right (we quote from memory), appears 

 to be true since he says the owner of the 

 mule persuaded the shooter to buy it. 



There are many odd shots mentioned 

 in the English sporting books and maga- 

 zines, probably because game is always 

 plentiful enough for extraordinary shots 

 as well as for the commonplace. 



We once made a good but somewhat 



TWO METHODS OF GAME 

 SAVING. 



The official bulletin of the California 

 Fish and Game Commission says : "In 

 spite of more game laws, shorter seasons 

 and smaller bag limits, practically every 

 species has decreased in numbers in the 

 last twenty years." This is quite true 

 in every State in the Union in so far as 

 the statement relates to the so-called 

 "State" or wild game. 



Our census of game owned by breed- 

 ers indicates that on hundreds of game 

 farms and preserves the quail, pheasants, 

 ducks, deer and other game have in- 

 creased amazingly; that the game re- 

 mains plentiful although thousands of 

 deer and birds are shot every season; 

 that the game farmers and preserve own- 

 ers are beginning to market this desir- 

 able food. 



Game is cheaper than poultry, often, 

 in foreign markets. We are quite sure 

 that in a very few years the American 

 people will have alT the game they can 





