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THE GAME BREEDER 



Book Reviews. 



The Farmer's Handbook; instructions 

 in the use of high explosives for clear- 

 ing land, planting and cultivating trees, 

 drainage, ditching and subsoiling. 

 Copyright 1915, E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours Powder Co., Wilmington, 

 Delaware. 



This is a handsome illustrated book 

 of 184 pages of interesting, instructive 

 and valuable matter about the use of 

 ■explosives on the farm. . Many of our 

 readers now own country places and 

 they will be glad to know how they can 

 quickly be improved and made to yield 

 more abundantly by the use of dynamite 

 for clearing, cultivating and sub-soiling. 

 Our readers who are going in for wild 

 ducks will be especially interested to 

 learn that small ponds and ditches can 

 be made for the water fowl very inex- 

 pensively. Some of our readers have 

 used dynamite to make duck ponds and 

 -they found it did the work quickly and 

 well. The writer once reared over 2,500 

 wild ducks beside a small circular ditch 

 dug by hand in a meadow. The work 

 was slow and it was hardly completed 

 when the breeding season opened. This 

 work could have been done in a few 

 hours by using dynamite. It is well to 

 make the breeding pond circular in 

 form, leaving an island in the center. 

 The ducks will enjoy the island and find 

 it a safe retreat from cats and some 

 other ground vermin. 



We would advise our readers to write 

 to the du Ponts and ask them to send 

 this book. It is evidently for free dis- 

 tribution to those who expect to use ex- 

 plosives. 



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Modern Game Protection. 



The Hon. Trinidad C. de Baca, Game 

 and Fish Warden of New Mexico, has 

 issued one of the best State reports we 

 have seen. He well says : "Private pre- 

 serves evidently constitute a most im- 

 portant factor in modern game protec- 

 tion " 



"Modern" is an excellent word to ap- 

 ply to present-day methods, which are 

 decidedly different from those of a few 

 years ago. 



A few good game ranches in New 

 Mexico easily could supply the people of 

 the State with all the game, big and 

 small, they would care to eat. 



A few good-sized ranches soon should 

 supply the California markets with all 

 the quail, venison and other game the 

 people of that State would care to eat. 

 Some large game ranches in New Mex- 

 ico also could keep the New York mar- 

 kets full of cheap game and such in- 

 dustry would make the ranch owners 

 rich; would furnish a desirable food for 

 New York, and, best of all, it would 

 save the game for all time to come. We 

 expect great things from New Mexico 

 and the other Western States within the 

 next year or two. Thousands of deer, 

 wild turkeys, quail and other game and 

 trout are already owned by breeders. 

 The ratio of increase when "modern 

 game protection" is applied always is 



geometrical. 



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L B O. 



Our readers should try the L B O gun 

 oil, advertised on another page. Since 

 the oil is endorsed by John Fanning it 

 must be good, and our readers should 

 use it because it is advertised in The 

 Game Breeder and thus becomes one of 

 the celebrated "more game" products 

 which are contributing to make North 

 America the biggest game-producing 

 country in the world. 



No doubt double guns as good as the 

 high-grade Parkers, and repeating guns 

 as good as those made by the Reming- 

 tons may be made in foreign countries. 

 Readers of The Game Breeder, however, 

 should buy Remington and Parker guns 

 because these guns have contributed to 

 restore field sports in America. The 

 contributions made by these gun makers 

 have been partly used in stopping the 

 prohibition of quail shooting on Long 

 Island ; they have been used to open up 

 some benighted States where field sports 

 were prohibited, or nearly so. One of 

 our smaller bird advertisers says in a 

 letter to-day he had 48 inquiries for 

 pheasants last week. "More pheasants" 

 means more shooting and more guns, and 

 more L B O. 



