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society. The game census, taken by 

 The Game Breeder, indicates that over 

 one hundred thousand game birds and 

 deer are now owned by game breeders. 

 Since the ratio of increase is geometrical 

 when game is properly looked after, it 

 safely can be said there will be over a 

 million birds and deer by the time the 

 next dinner is announced. We hope 

 there will be a series of dinners instead 

 of one.' Having "more game" we are 

 sure it will be possible to much enlarge 

 the list of invitations and that places may 

 be set for all who have expressed a de- 

 sire to attend. We hope the laws may be 

 amended so as to encourage those who 

 are breeding wild turkeys, quail and 

 other game suitable for dinners. All 

 naturalists favor the profitable produc- 

 tion of game. The arresting of those 

 who produce and serve game is a poor 

 way to encourage production. 



James Edgar, game keeper for the 

 Carrolls Island Club, writes that he has 

 good luck with his wild ducks and that 

 he had a fine lot of pheasants but lost 

 a big lot of them during a storm. "All 

 my coops," he says, "was floating like 

 those in the picture you published re- 

 cently in The Game Breeder. I picked 

 up 925 pheasants, drowned. If it had 

 not been for the flood I would have had a 

 good season. My birds were about full 

 grown and a picture of health and I have 

 let the people of Maryland see that 

 pheasants can be reared in that State." 



^ Malformed Deer Horns. 



The enclosed photograph is one of 

 four malformed horns that have been 

 mounted by F. D. Hoyt in the last three 

 years. All of the four deer came from 

 one district about four miles square and 

 within twenty-five miles of the city of 

 Oakland, Cal. 



All of the bucks were castrated, but 

 whether this has anything to do with 

 the malformation or how they became in 

 that condition I leave it to breeders of 

 big game and men who have studied the 

 deer at close range to discuss. This deer 

 with the freak head was killed by 



Malformed Horns. 



"Hooks" Rose, of Niles, Cal., so called 

 from the fact that he has no hands, both 

 being off at the wrists, and he handles a 

 rifle with hooks strapped onto the stumps. 

 The horns are in the velvet, the most 

 symmetrical of any that have come under, 

 my observation, with the main horn 

 about eighteen inches long, with four- 

 inch forks. The eye guards come out 

 regular ' and curve back over the main 

 horn touching the ears. The base of the 

 horns are fifteen and sixteen and a half 

 inches in circumference, and form an 

 almost perfect hood of bone over the 

 top of the head, while from their base 

 to the fork, 202 small points from five- 

 eighths to one and one-half inches long 

 stick out in all directions. 



California. Fred D. Hoyt. 



It seems a pity that the National Gov- 

 ernment should attempt to imitate some 

 of the State game law nonsense. It has 

 been proven beyond a reasonable doubt 

 that the game cannot be made plentiful 

 simply by enacting legal restrictions. 



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