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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



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Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW Y0ktC, JANUARY, 1916 



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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 36S5. 



TEMPORA MUTANTUR. 



Having hunted the bison, mounted on 

 a swift cavalry mount and at other times 

 when using Indian ponies taken from the 

 Sioux; having hunted the swift antelope 

 on the plains of Colorado with a pack of 

 equally swift dogs, and stalked these ani- 

 mals on the hills and prairies of Mon- 

 tana; having ridden on a wagonload of 

 quail and having often used a wagon to 

 transfer the prairie grouse and wild fowl 

 taken in a few days good shooting, we 

 are prepared to admit when we revisit 

 our old shooting grounds that the "Times 

 have changed." 



No longer can we all be destroyers, 

 even if we enact laws limiting the bag 

 to only a very few birds per season. Na- 

 ture's balance surely will be and remain 

 upset if the increasing throng of sports- 

 men persists in being shooters only and 

 insists upon preventing the breeders of 

 game from increasing its numbers. 



The time approaches when legislatures 

 will meet again. When bills galore will 

 be introduced shortening the seasons and 

 the hours of the day when it is legal to 

 shoot and limiting the bag and making 

 closed seasons in entire states for terms 

 of years. Young lawyers soon will ap- 

 pear before legislative committees on 

 fish and game and will recite their little 

 pieces beginning "Where are the buffa- 

 loes," and "Where are the wild pigeons," 



which have been used in legislative work 

 for the last half century. The plea will 

 be made to give the game remaining a 

 chance to survive, which means if any 

 attention be paid to natural laws that 

 field sports must be prohibited. We have 

 often pointed out shooting is a disastrous 

 check to the increase of any species of 

 game birds which cannot be tolerated to 

 any extent without the result being ex- 

 tinction, unless some of us look after 

 the game and increase its numbers. 



So long as certain funds are available 

 for the "Where are the buffalo" etc., 

 legislative campaigns and many young 

 lawyers can be found eager to make rep- 

 utations in department work we have 

 very little hope that the number of laws 

 will be reduced; or that the number of 

 game birds will be increased, excepting 

 by game breeders who are not prevented 

 by laws from keeping the game plentiful 

 and profitable on the areas used for 

 propagation. All we ask is that when 

 the new prohibitions of sport are enacted 

 that they be not applied to those who 

 produce and shoot game in abundance 

 every year. 



We know where there are enough, 

 bison to fully restock, in short order, all 

 of the fields whose owners may want 

 "buffaloes." We are well aware, how- 

 ever, these animals cannot be restored to 

 the gardens and grain fields or even on 

 the pastures which now occur where 

 formerly we shot the bison in good num- 

 bers. We are aware that many lakes 

 and ponds where we made our best bags 

 of wild fowl have been drained. We 

 have observed vast prairies planted with 

 wheat where we once shot thousands of 

 grouse, but where not a grouse could 

 survive to-day because of the loss of the 

 natural covers and the winter foods 

 which have been destroyed absolutely. 



Truly the times have changed and we 

 must change with them. 



THE TROUBLE IN NEW JERSEY. 



One of the most important speeches 

 at the Wild Duck Dinner of The Game 

 Conservation Society was made by Mr. 

 Ernest W. Napier, Chairman of the New 



