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the control of predatory vermin. Birds 
of all kinds will desert a place where 
there is no food, and caged birds will 
not breed, will have no desire to breed 
if they see no food for their babies. 
Waste lands of all kinds will grow 
grasses, clovers, seeds, berries, nuts, 
etc., etc., that cannot be profitably har- 
vested by man, yet can be harvested by 
game birds and animals to a degree that 
will be extraordinarily profitable. 
All life, its businesses and pleasures, 
is a risk of some sort and game-breed- 
ing is no exception to this rule. A city 
man who contemplates investing in 
game-breeding cannot be too careful in 
the selection of his prospective enter- 
prise. He must consider carefully 
what varieties of birds he intends 
breeding. All birds will do best in or 
near clear, clean water. Upland birds 
will do better on sandy, gravelly soil 
because clay soil will sour and will re- 
quire frequent turning over in order to 
keep it sweet. Geese will not require 
much water but they will be better on 
low damp clays and rich _ pasture. 
Swans, ducks and teals love marshy 
places. Rabbits do best on ground that 
is rolling or hilly. A section abound- 
ing in “hog’s backs” would do very well 
for them. All birds and animals do 
better if they are well protected from 
north and northwest winds. Game 
farms should be wind sheltered by hills 
or by thick rows of trees from these 
winds. Available lands, suitable for 
game-farming, are anything but scarce 
and I have seen lots of abandoned farms 
throughout the country that are most 
ideally adapted for game-farming. 
Thus the question of game-farming 
can be divided into these sections: 
Selection of place. 
Preparation of place. 
Selection and purchase of stock. 
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Selection of help. 
Each of these divisions is of such im- 
portance that each must be done right 
if the prospective breeder is to succeed. 
Nothing should be done rashly or in 
haste. Move carefully so that there will 
be nothing to regret. It is better to 
make haste slowly than to regret at 
leisure. Learn by the experience of 
other breeders insofar as that is pos- 
sible. For instance, I know of a woman 
who invested $250,000 in importing 
valuable game and ornamental birds 
and lost every bird because of her se- 
lection of helpers. 
Suppose you do select the proper kind 
of birds as to youth, health and breed- 
ing. Then you must afford the con- 
ditions ihat will induce these birds to 
feel at home and to breed. When the 
hen bird is laying the eggs to your satis- 
faction, you will want to be sure the 
eggs are fertile. After the eggs are 
laid, how will you have them hatched? 
Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
It will identify you. 
Will you put them under bantams or 
Wyandottes, in the incubator, or leave 
them under their own mother? If you 
have peahen egg’s are you going to put 
them under a turkey hen, or give them 
to a Wyandotte? After the little chicks 
are out, how will you feed them? Here 
is a section of game-breeding that re- 
quires more brains than many univer- 
sity professors, even, possess. Suppose 
you do feed your little chicks and your 
stock birds right and keep all of them 
at the right temperature, you will have 
to defend them against every conceiv- 
able kind of vermin, from microbes to 
wolves. 
Your market for your propagated 
birds is all right. It is awaiting you 
and calling lustily for your stock. But 
you must know how to ship the birds 
so that they will arrive in good con- 
dition. 
Yes, indeed, no one need enter upon 
game-breeding with the idea that they 
are going in for for a brain rest! Un- 
doubtedly, such work will rest your 
brain from previous cares but no slug- 
gish-brained person need take up game- 
breeding. 
Game-breeding is tremendously fas- 
cinating, particularly when you are in- 
terested in breeding a rare bird or one 
that has not bred in domesticity be- 
fore, and especially when you are after 
vermin. : 
Out on the Pacific Coast, I had the 
pleasure of meeting a game-breeder— 
a woman—who had taken up the work 
to cure herself of nervous prostration. 
She is more interested in rare and orna- 
mental birds and my wife and I en- 
joyed the glow of achievement shining 
in her eyes almost as much as we did 
her birds when she showed us the young 
of her beautiful Nicobar pigeons that 
no other American breeder has _ suc- 
ceeded in breeding, as well as the young 
of the still rarer New Guinea pheasant 
dove—a bird as large as a chicken—of 
which I understand she has the only 
pair in captivity, and therefore is, of 
course, their only breeder. 
But whether one breeds the Ringneck 
pheasants and ducks for game clubs 
and shooting preserves, or prefers the 
more beautiful birds which will sell to 
parks, zoos and private estates and 
country homes, the work is exceedingly 
interesting and well worth while. But, 
as I have already said, it requires in- 
finite patience. 

