The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-10-02
Game Farms in the Southwest
May Furnish Livelihood and
Homes for Disabled Soldiers
State Game Warden Theodore Rouault Arouses
National Attention and Interest With Paper on
Game Farms Read to Recent Convention Of
International Association of Game Wardens in
New York; Results in Resolution to Congress.

friend Of mine. ! asked how many cat
Tie his 'ango could stand lie replied
MY thousand" 1 asked him how
many he usually had on his stock
range. lie replied from five
To- thirty thousand, hut that now he
only had about twelve thousand ~
this "a had made II Impossible for
him 10 buy cattle or keep what he
had" Think of IL. gentlemen only
twenty two percent Of what his range
al stand and grass knee-hiEh All oy-
on HE three hundred ana fifty acres
of land
In some manner We must make up
Tor this wastagc and, in my opinion,
the solution OF the problem b. game
farming.
tp 10 eighteen years ago. out OF
santa Pc. New Mexico. there were a.
number of professional hunters. who.
weekly, made trtps into own with
pack burros. loaded down with vent
son, turkey. elk. antelope and bear
meat. This was sold by the butcher
Just as beef and pork are sold today,
excepting that the price was about
onc-fourth or Jess than what We are
paying today for our ordinary cuts Of
meat, Before the federal and state
laws were enacted and the sale of
game was still considered legal. J have
seen quail sold Tor fifty cents per
dozen, dead or aliyr' rabhits, two FOR
five cents, ducks. ten cents, hrant.
geese ana cranes at fifty cents apiece
Today YOU can get seventy five cents
each for an the quail you con deliver
say seventy five cents well adyiscdlN
Tor am getting eighty three cents
per bird FOR an the Gumbcl and sealed
quail I &c spare. During she season
lHl .-lN, We shipped about I'VE thou
sand quail out of five thousand trap
ped. These were an bid az nfiy cents
por bird to breeders Ia the northern
states aud they Were begging for
more az This price This, of course. is
only one instance. Now there are
your pheastnts bringing from s. so
20 5000 per bird. your wild ducks.
geese and turkey proportiouately high.
ana the constant demand from private
preserves for breeding stock and from
game dealers for the culls.
\ beginner in game farming should
worry as to the market but ON
the contrary. he should Go consider
able worrying or 10 his start iu the
business. Before taking any step
Whatsoever, even before purchasing
hand for a game farm, ! would first
obtain information and advice from.
AN possible sources. that h.. from pro
f%cssiunul game breeders private gamc
preserve uNnotN, game commission
crs, and l.. = biological survey. and
the game farm at cornell university.
Mach valuable information might al
81 he had by applying 10 such men as
r Gilbert neurson. r.. \. QuBrics Car
los Avery, Dwight Huntington, John
Burnhum Dr Palmer. pr Hornadny
ana many other authorities con-
slider Quarlof on "Pheasants' and
job ON Propagation % wild Birds"
the two best hooks published on these
subjects and no. beginner should he
without them,
The acreage required Tor a small
game farm depends 20 n great extent
anon q mans pockctb0ck and his abil.
rs 10 carry on h work. We're /
starting / would endeaYor 10 secure a