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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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GAME LAW AND RABBITS. 
J. C. W., Oswego, N. Y. —The Slate came 
laws, in section 82, part 2, slate that noth¬ 
ing in Hi is section shall prevent the owner 
or occupant of enclosed or occupied farm 
lands or their employees from taking hares 
or rabbits on such owners’ or occupants’ 
premises at any time to prevent their in¬ 
juring property. Ilares and rabbits shall 
not bo hunted with ferrets. Does it mean 
that I can hire a man to kill rabbits on 
my place with a ferret or not, or if 1 hire 
such a man. is he liable to the law? 
Ans. —The permission given in the 
game law applies only to the season of 
the year, and not to the method of kill¬ 
ing the rabbits, and that part of Section 
82 reads as follows: 
“Nothing in this section shall prevent 
Ihc owner or occupant of enclosed or occu¬ 
pied farm lands or their employees from 
taking hares and rabbits on such owner’s 
or occupant’s premises at any time, to pre¬ 
vent their injuring property.” 
The rabbits therefore may be taken 
only by lawful means, and as the use 
of ferrets for taking rabbits is prohibit¬ 
ed a little further down in this section, 
ferrets may not be used by the farmer. 
Another method which would be illegal 
would be by poison, as this would be 
contrary to the provisions of the Penal 
Code, though not of the game law. The 
rabbits could be shot or trapped, and 
the farmer could kill them himself, or 
have the killing done by employees. 
JOHN B. BURNHAM, 
Chief Game Protector. 
NEW YORK STATE BREEDERS’ MEETING. 
Pakt I. 
The annual convention of the New York 
State Breeders’ Association met in Utica, 
January 11. The main purpose of the or¬ 
ganization is the general improvement of 
animal husbandry, and a keener apprecia¬ 
tion of the breeder’s privileges and respon¬ 
sibilities. The breeding of cattle, horses, 
sheep, swine and other animals is consid¬ 
ered, and various means of raising the 
standard undertaken. With the association 
arc affiliated a number of clubs having as 
their object the improvement of certain 
kinds of animals. There is a Jersey club, 
an Ayrshire club and a Guernsey club, also 
a Berkshire swine club and a Shropshire 
sheep club. These various organizations 
are also holding their annual meetings. 
The officers of the Breeders’ Association 
are: President, George W. Sisson, Jr., 
Potsdam; vice-president, Calvin J. Iluson. 
Penn Yan; secretary, Albert E. Brown. 
Batavia: treasurer, Wing It. Smith, S.vra- 
i use; directors, W. A. Alexander, David 
K. Bell, Dr. C. E. Hatch, F. W. Sessions. 
George I*. Tollman, J. C. Cotfcrell, Harvey 
Connor, Calvin J. Huson, Prof. II. II. Wing, 
Dr. C. I). Sinead, George A. Smith, H. B. 
Winters. 
The opening session was held Tuesday 
'veiling, and Corporation Counsel William 
Townsend, In his address of welcome, in 
part said : “The New York State Breeders’ 
Association Is doing a splendid work. They 
are doing for the dumb animals what 
'■bools and colleges are doing for men, edu- 
eating them to a point where they can he 
of greater service to mankind. There is 
as much difference between a neglected 
scrub animal and a well-cared-for purebred 
•me as t here is between the human savage 
and the civilized educated man. On the 
principle that good farming consisls of 
making two blades of grass grow where 
there was but one before, breeders of live 
stock have come to realize that b.v sclen- 
tlfie methods the efficiency of animals can 
be Increased twofold.” 
President George W. Sisson. ,Tr., In his 
address brought out many valuable points: 
“To such organizations as this, actively 
working, and to county associations and 
groups of breeders where enthusiasm and 
interest are kept warm by personal con¬ 
tact and competition, the State must largely 
look for that improvement so essential to 
profitable production. Far beyond the bene¬ 
fits that come from academic discussion 
of our breeding problems, are the broadened 
outlook and mutual confidence flint are the 
result of our co-operative activity. The 
breeder of the specialized farm animal en¬ 
ters a field than which no phase of agricul¬ 
ture is more fascinating, because of the 
intricate problems, with their ever-recur¬ 
ring surprises, which our dealings with 
that mysterious thing we call life as mani- 
f |l ded in Hie functions of onr animals are 
constantly bringing forth, life in a most 
highly organized form, a most delicate and 
perfectly adapted living machine, with feel¬ 
ings, intelligence, likes and dislikes, whose 
usefulness to man is directly dependent 
upon the maternal instinct and its devel¬ 
opment, The specialized farm animal needs 
"U'l demands of her owner the most intelli¬ 
gent ctre and the kindest image. What we 
D ink of our animals, how we shall use 
thera and make (hem serve us, I:ow wo 
shall improve, transform and protect them 
to our purpose, will determine largely our 
usefulness and success as breeders. The 
first requisite of a successful breeder is a 
just appreciation of the true function of 
his animal. Hazy and indefinite notions 
result in that haphazard, no-purpose, dual- 
purpose animal which lias filled our herds 
with star hoarders and no-accounts, whose 
only excuse for living might bo as fertil¬ 
izer factories. Measure your animals rig¬ 
idly by economic standards, and take no 
excuse for shortcomings. 1 give large credit 
to the discovery of what some cows can 
do, to the system of yearly authenticated 
tests. No single agency will do more at 
this time to exploit any breed in a manner 
that will he sound and lasting than the 
extension of the yearly tests. The value of 
this work to the owner and the breed can¬ 
not. be overestimated. We hear much of 
cow-testing associations. They are a grand 
thing; it is the business of such organiza¬ 
tions ns ours to foster and further cow- 
testing associations and assist in their or¬ 
ganization. Another big factor Is the es¬ 
tablishment of co-operative breeding asso¬ 
ciations. The Michigan Agricultural Col¬ 
lege employs a field agent who goes about 
arousing interest In improved live stock, 
and organizing farmers into legally incor¬ 
porated breeding associations t bat: bind 
themselves to use purebred sires only for 
a certain period of time. The result of 
the first 10 months’ work Is Ihe establish¬ 
ment of 25 breeding clubs with 8,000 cows 
that are being bred to purebred bulls where 
formerly scrubs were used.” 
Prof. W. II. Caldwell, secretary of the 
American Guernsey Cattle Club, spoke on 
“The Measure of Utility of the Dairy Cow.” 
The main I bought of the address was that 
the farmer should study his cows, and that 
in doing this he should bear in mind that 
the net result is in dollars and cents and 
not necessarily In the amount of milk pro¬ 
duced. “I doubt if there is any farmer to¬ 
day who questions the importance of know¬ 
ing his herd. It is not sufficient, however, 
to know the herd as a whole, but he should 
know each cow in the herd. It is not so 
important to know the best cow in the 
herd as it is to know tlie poorest cow. 
Wo should not he carrying cows that do 
not pay us a return. We must know the 
weight and quality of the milk. We must 
consider also the amount of food to produce 
the milk.” J. (hunt mouse. 
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