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THE GAME BREEDER 



T 1 ?? Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY, 1916 



TERMS: 



10 Cents a Copy— $1.00 a year in Advance. 



Postage free to all subscribers in the United States. 

 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. 



AN END TO FOOLISHNESS. 



One of our readers, sending an ad- 

 vertisement of live game for sale says: 

 "I have spent on game protection in the 

 last six years not less than $10,000 — ■ 

 most of it foolishly as I see it now, and 

 your paper opened my eyes. 1 now want 

 an outlet for my surplus game and wish 

 to help create an interest in game breed- 

 ing." 



How well the foregoing fits in with 

 the memorable oft-quoted statement of 

 the Dean of Sportsmen, "Truly we need 

 a revolution of thought and a revival of 

 common sense." 



regulations, breeders should, of course, 

 sell live quail and all other game at all 

 times for propagation, and during long 

 open seasons as food. 



Game rapidly is becoming abundant in 

 many parts of the country where good 

 game breeding laws have been enacted. 

 The people evidently are fond of game 

 to eat, pay good prices for it. and be- 

 come friendly to the sport which often 

 produces the food. The money paid for 

 the game is' used to produce more game. 



BIRDS FOR PROPAGATION. 



Members of the Game Conservation 

 Society and readers of The Game Breed- 

 er should see that all new game breeders 

 laws contain a provision that breeders 

 be permitted to trap live birds for prop- 

 agation. They should be permitted to 

 take live birds instead of shooting the 

 same number. How absurd it seems to 

 permit any one who pays a dollar for a 

 shooting license to shoot 25 or some other 

 number of birds per diem and to refuse 

 the breeders the right to save a similar 

 number of birds for breeding purposes ! 



All game breeders laws should be 

 amended so as to permit licensed breed- 

 ers to trap any game on their places for 

 propagation purposes. Under proper 



MONEY IN PRAIRIE CHICKENS. 



Many of the prairie States now per- 

 mit the profitable breeding of prairie 

 chickens. The birds sell readily at from 

 $10 to $20 per pair. They can be reared 

 on protected farms much cheaper than 

 ordinary poultry, provided proper grass 

 covers and foods, wild sunflowers and 

 others be planted. Prairie chicken eggs 

 are worth $1 each. No doubt the birds 

 will persist in laying if a few eggs be 

 taken from the nests. We will send 

 some substantial orders for a big lot of 

 prairie chickens and eggs to any farmer 

 who will offer them for sale. It should 

 be an easy matter to make $5,000 or $10,- 

 000 a year on a good big farm or ranch, 

 simply by killing the hawks, crows, 

 snakes and other vermin and by trapping 

 the chickens and selling them alive. 



The Game Breeder will tell any farm- 

 er or farmer's boy how he can make a 

 lot of money with prairie chickens. 



THE ANNUAL OUTRAGE. 



Outrage is a mild term to apply to the 

 performance required by the New York 

 game laws. Reputable citizens who are 

 engaged in breeding game birds, a ran >st 

 desirable food, are arrested as they re- 

 turn home because they have their prop- 

 erty in their possession. The game is 

 seized and officers say they give it to 

 hospitals. Jail threats are made and the 

 citizens settle, paying good sums of 

 money, about what the banditti, operat- 

 ing in the name of the law. think they 

 will stand in each case. We have rec- 

 ords where the monev demanded was 



