FOREST AND STREAM 
919 
FOR THE PROTECTION AND PROPAGATION 
OF GAME. 
A TTENDANCE at the second National 
conference on Game Breeding and Pre¬ 
serving, held March 6 and 7, at the 
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, was 
about double that of a year ago. The American 
Game Protective Association, under whose aus¬ 
pices the meeting took place, has reason to feel 
very much gratified at the great increase in in¬ 
terest that was manifest. 
The two days’ program was replete with papers 
and addresses of interest on almost all of the 
more important phases of the breeding and pre¬ 
serving of game. 
Every section of the country that is at all 
important from a game standpoint was repre¬ 
sented, and the debates and numerous questions 
that were fired at practically every speaker mani¬ 
fested the deep interest of those who attended 
the conference. 
Especially notable were the papers by Mr. 
John M. Phillips, of Pittsburgh, on the breeding 
of deer considered from a commercial stand¬ 
point, of Mr. A. G. MacVicar, head keeper of 
the Childs-Walcott preserve on “Game Preserv¬ 
ing in America,” of Mr. W. L. McAtee of the 
U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey on “Wild 
Duck Foods,” and of Mr. Ethelbert I. Low on 
the best means to be employed in keeping up the 
supply of game on club preserves. 
Hon. E. C. Hinshaw, Chief Game Warden of 
Iowa, presented a most interesting and complete 
report on the progress of the movement through¬ 
out the United States for the establishment of 
reserves or sanctuaries for game in the various 
communities throughout the commonwealths. 
He showed that this movement is making sub¬ 
stantial progress and that nearly one-half of the 
states of the Union have already taken some 
action in this particular. 
The dinner was one of the most brilliant 
events that has ever taken place in connection 
with the national conservation movement. Never 
before had such a collection of moving pictures 
of wild life been presented as in connection with 
that event. Mr. George D. Pratt, Conservation 
Commissioner of New York, showed by moving 
pictures how the forests of that state are being 
protected and also how the streams are being 
stocked through the medium of the state hatch¬ 
eries. Mr. Norman McClintock had wonderful 
moving picture views taken both in Florida and 
on the Louisiana gulf coast, and Dr. Arthur A. 
Allen showed similar pictures of canvasbacks 
taken on Cayuga Lake at Ithaca, and also studies 
in bird life which were unique. 
Mr. William L. Finley’s moving pictures 
evoked prolonged and frequent applause. Mr. 
Finley is state biologist of Oregon. He has 
collected one of the most interesting sets of 
reels illustrative of the wild life of that section 
of the country that has ever been seen. 
At the dinner, Commissioner Pratt presented 
the Association’s two certificates of merit for the 
best work done respectively in game breeding 
and game preserving throughout the United 
States during the time immediately preceding the 
conference. 
The certificate for game preserving was given 
to Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny of Avery Island, Louisi¬ 
ana, because of his assistance in having set aside 
the Sage-Rockefeller and Ward-Mcllhenny pre¬ 
serves on the Louisiana gulf coast. 
Mr. Malcolm Dunn was given the certificate 
for game breeding. This reward was based on 
the highly successful work that Mr. Dunn has 
done in the breeding of bobwhite quail. 
Henry S. Graves, United States Forester, de¬ 
lighted the big game hunters with a most com¬ 
plete and interesting paper on the subject of 
game conservation on public lands, with special 
reference to the elk, and Dr. A. K. Fisher of 
the Bureau of Biological Survey presented most 
interestingly the plans of the Survey for the 
improvement of resorts frequented by wild fowl. 
During the course of the conference, an illus¬ 
trated lecture on the subject of pheasant breed¬ 
ing was given by E. A. Quarles. 
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