CHAPTER IV 



RINGNECK PHEASANT AND EUROPEAN GRAY (HUNGARIAN) 



PARTRIDGE 



HISTORY OF PLANTS 



TNVESTMENT in Exotics. Since 1900, the investment of public and pri- 

 _|_ vate funds in planting pheasants and Hungarians in the north central region 

 has been: 



TABLE 20. Investment in exotics 



The region's total investment in exotic planting stock for 1930 was about 

 $120,000 which is six per cent of the total State license revenues from game plus 

 the indivisible part of fish. It is roughly ten per cent of the State revenue from 

 game alone. 



The trend of game policy in the various States is to increase, or at least main- 

 tain, the current rate of planting exotics. Such plantings to a certain extent 

 represent time and money taken away from other species, or other activities. It 

 therefore is important, in view of the large sums involved, to determine the extent 

 to which the plantings have been successful. 



Success of Exotics. In certain parts of the northern half of the region 

 the plantings have been consistently successful. They have resulted in the estab- 

 lishment of wild self-propagating populations. 



Throughout the southern half of the region the plantings have been con- 

 sistently unsuccessful. 



This accumulated experience would seem to indicate that the southern half 

 of the north central region is not suitable for these exotics, and that no more 



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