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THE GAME BREEDER 



T*?f Game Breeder 



Published Monthly 



Edited by DWIGHT W. HUNTINGTON 



NEW YORK, MARCH, 1916 



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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. 



The Game Conservation Society is 1 

 largest association of game breeders in 

 the world. Many members of the so- 

 ciety now own thousands of game birds, 

 deer, buffaloes, antelope and other ani- 

 mals and it is evident the wild life does 

 not vanish anywhere when it is properly 

 looked after. 



It was a great disappointment to 

 members of the Game Conservation So- 

 ciety not to be able to eat the wild tur- 

 keys donated by members for its game 

 dinner. Next winter the society pro- 

 poses to have antelope, quail and all sorts 

 of game for its subscription dinners and 

 if necessary the meetings will be held 

 outside of New York in a State where 

 there is more freedom than there is at 

 present in New York. How disgraceful 

 it seems for a special police force to be 

 ever ready to arrest people who eat food 

 legally produced because they happen to 

 serve it in a State where the food prac- 

 tically has been exterminated. 



breeders of other States. Last year, as. 

 we pointed out, the Protective Associa- 

 tion seemed determined to make its ac- 

 tivities purely local ; and the game breed- 

 ers of other States surely cannot take- 

 any interest in the Protective Associa- 

 tion if it opposes our efforts to give them 

 access to the best markets. 



We are pleased to observe that the 

 American Protective Association will 

 help keep up an interest in game breed- 

 ing. We hope at its meeting this year 

 it will decide to join the Game Conserva- 

 tion Society and the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies in the request to 

 open the New York markets to the 



CINNAMON TEAL. 



We wish to invite the attention of" 

 game breeders to the cinnamon teal. It- 

 is a comparatively rare species and a 

 very handsome species and doubtless it 

 will command an excellent price as soon 

 as the dealers offer it for sale. The com- 

 paratively rare species of pheasants sell 

 for several times as much as the conv 

 mon ring-necked and dark-necked pheas- 

 ants and their eggs bring proportionate 

 prices. 



Since many private duck ponds and 

 shoots are being started in America there 

 surely will be a demand for cinnamon 

 teal and we believe they will bring better 

 prices than wood ducks or mandarins.. 

 In an article published in this issue we 

 are told that "the cinnamon teal is with- 

 out doubt the commonest nesting duck 

 in California." In spite of this fact, the 

 writer says, it is a duck little known to 

 sportsmen because it moves southward 

 and is not present during the winter sea- 

 son. 



The shooting season should open while 

 the ducks are present since otherwise 

 they are of no use to those who would 

 shoot or eat them. We believe this teal 

 can be handled easily on game farms and 

 we would advise the breeders in Cali- 

 fornia and in the Salt Lake Valley and 

 elsewhere where they occur to try them. 

 We are quite sure an advertisement in 

 The Game Breeder will sell a lot of cin- 

 namon teal at excellent prices and their 

 eggs should also bring good prices. Since 

 the wood duck and the blue-winged teal 

 have been bred outside of their natural 

 habitat, the first named even in foreign ■ 

 countries where they are not indigenous, 

 it seems likely the cinnamon teal can be 

 utilized as ornaments for ponds on coun- 

 try places. Many of these now have 

 duck ponds and this teal should be at- 



