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THE GAME BREEDER 



the matter, but first we must have the 

 common sense game laws you advocate. 

 Game breeding must be encouraged. 

 Oregon. H. A. Powell. 



Interested in the Booklet. 



I have received the January copy of 

 The Game Breeder. This is O. K. 



I was greatly interested in the booklet 

 issued by the Hercules Powder Com- 

 pany. This contains a lot of excellent 

 information and will do much to stim- 

 ulate interest in the new sport of game 

 breeding. 



The work which you are doing is ex- 

 cellent and I am in hearty sympathy with 

 the more game movement. 



Boston, Mass. B. S. Foss. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



William R. Oates' opinion of the game 

 law recently enacted by the State of In- 

 diana is more than amusing, it is ridic- 

 ulous indeed. He presumes, entirely 

 without reason or justification, that per- 

 sons engaged in the industry of rearing 

 pheasants would become allied with the 

 illegal or pot hunters. The idea that 

 this domestic enterprise could not be car- 

 ried on without interfering with the pro- 

 per protection of game in the wild state 

 is too absurd almost for discussion. The 

 writer has . pointed out more than once 

 that all policing should be done in the 

 domains of the game birds and animals 

 to be protected, and not in public or 

 •private places. 



The "in possession" craze of game 

 commissioners and wardens is becoming 

 fanatical. Let the license fee for gun- 

 ning be large enough to produce the re- 

 quired sum to properly police the domain 

 of the game to be protected. No en- 

 closures or fenced lands should be in- 

 cluded in such domain. If I enter the 

 city of New York or any other place 

 outside of such protected domain with 

 game birds or animals in my possessio- 

 fhe right of such possession should not 

 and must not be questioned. This of- 

 fensive espionage outside the limits of 

 proper domain of such game birds and 

 animals is entirely unwarranted, and if 

 wardens will perform their whole duty 

 it will be unnecessary. If the revenue 



as now received is inadequate to protect 

 the game at the source (in its domain) 

 then tax those receiving the benefits for 

 the required sum whether it be the 

 farmer, gunner or the citizens collective- 

 ly, but do not interfere with the progress 

 and growth of game breeding by domes- 

 tic enterprise. Breeders of game birds 

 and animals under domestic ownership 

 and control must not be hampered by 

 restrictive measures, simply because the 

 commissioner conceives it easier to pro- 

 tect those in the wild state by such far 

 reaching and sweeping enactments. No 

 one doubts that the midnight maurauder 

 of a hen roost could be more quickly a 

 prehended and rounded up if these same 

 regulations were made to apply to oir 

 domestic poultry, but who would submit 

 for a moment to such restrictions and 

 espionage, after all the progress that has 

 been made from that small beginning 

 with the wild jungle fowl in order that 

 the officer of the law might be more c^ 

 tain and more easily perform his work. 

 Mr. Commissioner, it is a case of the 

 net being entirely too big for the gam 

 to be caught ; do not attempt to sub- 

 ordinate so important an industry as 

 game breeding by domestic enterpris 

 but protect the game birds and animals 

 in their proper domain, as herein pointer 1 

 out; define game birds and animals and 

 raise your revenue for such proper polic- 

 ing without interfering with the more 

 important industry of rearing game by 

 domestic enterprise. 



New Jersey. S. V. Reeves. 



Editor Game Breeder: 



I have raised elk, deer and buffalo and 

 they paid, both in pleasure and profit. 

 If I was a younger man I would make a 

 fortune raising those animals. I am 76 

 years old. 



Nebraska. J. W. G. 



Meal Worms. 



In a letter from Mr. W. Stocregn he 

 says: "We have meal worms in stock. 

 They are sold at 25 cents per hundred." 



More Game and Fewer Game Laws. 



