CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



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tTATE FAIR EXHIBIT, 



The Fish &nd Game Commission's ex- 

 hibit at the State Fair at Sacramento, 

 August 30 to September 9, 1919, was the 

 most pretentious yet attempted and 

 proved to be tlie biggest attraction at tlae 

 fair. A capable engineer was retained to 

 draw the plans and Mr. Wm. F. Dabel- 

 stein, an artist of San Francisco, executed 

 them. The whole north end of the new 

 Agriculture Building was given over to 

 the exhibit. The main feature of the ex- 

 hibit was a cyclorama oi the Sierras with 

 Mounts Shasta, Lassen and Whitney 

 looming up in the background and in the 

 foreground the south end of Lake Tahoe 



wonder, for their bright colors would at- 

 tract anyone. The hardiness of this 

 variety of trout was evidenced by their 

 vigorous good health while in the 

 aquarium. Not a fish was lost in transit, 

 nor did one die during the ten days dura- 

 tion of the fair. The publications of the 

 commission were on display and wild life 

 films were shown in the motion picture 

 theater twice daily. 



GAME CENSUSES. 

 Many states are inaugurating a game 

 census to determine t'ne distribution and 

 comparative abundance of different va- 

 rieties. New York requires the wardens 



Fig. 60. 'iiii.- i-..-'i. ami (.>ame Conimi«'.ion >, txlubit at tlie State Fair at Sacramento ivliich took 

 tlie form of a panorama of th° High Sierras ■iMtli IVIount Sliasta and Lake Tahoe at 

 the left and Mount Whitney with a miniature of the Mount Whitney Hatchery at its 

 base at the rfght. The exhiljit was pronounced the finest on the fair grounds. 



at one end and a miniature of the Mouut 

 Whitney Hatchery at the other. Several 

 miniature waterfalls tumbled down the 

 rocks into an artificial lake filled with 

 trout. The whole scene was made still 

 more attractive by a system of lighting 

 which successively showed the gray light 

 of dawn, the rosy tints of sunrise and the 

 light of full day. 



Arranged in front of the panorama were 

 four large aquaria. Two of them showed 

 common introduced fish such as black and 

 striped bass, blue-gilled sunfish, crappie 

 and catfish, a third showed different 

 varieties of trout and a fourth was filled 

 with the famous golden trout of the 

 Mount Whitney region. Great interest 

 was shown in the golden trout, and no 



to report regularly on all game seen and 

 also requires a report of the game taken, 

 from each license holder. Minnesota has 

 just inaugurated a similar census to be 

 made by wardens. Although such cen- 

 suses will doubtless give a basis for esti- 

 mating the abundance of game, yet such 

 reports are necessarily so inaccurate that 

 California has not instituted similar 

 work. It may be that at some future 

 date California will follow the lead of 

 these other states. 



In the meantime J. S. Hunter, assist- 

 ant executive ofiicer, is contemplating a 

 different sort of a census — one which 

 would perhaps bring in more dependable 

 data with less work. The number of 

 cartridges sold in the state, if it were 



