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powdci' without vlint. All of tlii'sc pi'otoetivc inctliDds iwc pi-oviri*; very 

 satisl'actoiy if used intcllii^viitly ainl willi llic full purpose of ohtain- 

 iuj? I'elief. Because of the sun-ess .ittaiiied the warden is reeeiviiif? the 

 eooperatiou of many rice <;i'owers in protecting Ijoth the rice and the 

 waterfowl until tlie open season estahlished by the government. 



California could most elTectively I'id herself of the riee and duck 

 piolilriii hy askiim tin- I'uited States Depai'tnicnt of Agi'icult ure, and 

 the Califoi'ina State Le;.;islat ui'c to li\ an o|)eii season to conform with 

 both Oregon and Nevada, where the season is ( )ctob('r 1 to January 1."). 

 This would permit the rice growers to legally protect their crops where 

 it might be found necessary. It would also allow the residents of the 

 extreme Northern California counties to kill some waterfowl before 

 tiiese birds leave on their southern migrations. These residents claim, 

 and justly so, that they are discriminated against, as 1)\' the time of our 

 existing open season the waterfowl have nearly all left for the lower 

 valleys. 



RIVER PATROL. 



The launch iiatrul on the Sacramento and San Joaiiuin rivers and 

 tributaries is most etficient. With the addilion of the fast ci'ui.ser 

 '■Rainbow,"' whose speed is twenty-six miles an lioui-. the patrol is able 

 to more than double its cruising radius. The phenomenal run of striped 

 bass in the Sacramento and San Joaipiin rivei-s during the closed 

 season for nets demonstrated that few, if any. nets have been used dur- 

 ing the closed season. 



STATE FAIR EXHIBIT. 



The Fish and Game Connnission's exhibit at the State Fair at Sacra- 

 mento, August 30 to September 9. 101!). was the most pretentious yet 

 attempted and proved to be the biggest attraction at the fair. A capable 

 engineer was retained to draw the plans and ^fr. Win. F. Dabelstein. an 

 artist of San Francisco, executed them. The whole north end of the 

 new Agricultural Building was given over to the exhibit. The main 

 feature of the exhibit was a eyclorama of the Sierra with ^[ounts 

 Shasta. Lassen and Whitney looming up in the background and in the 

 iiiiegrcund tiie south end of Lake Tahoe at one end and a miuiatui'e of 

 the ?\Iount Whilney Hatchery at the other. Several miniature water- 

 falls tundiled down the rocks into an artificial lake tilled with trout. 

 Tlie whole ^cene was made still mere attractive by a system of lighting 

 which successively showed ihe uray light of dawn, the rosy tints of 

 sunrise and the light of full day. 



Arranged in front of the panorama wei'e four large aquaria. Two of 

 them showed < ommon introduced fish such as black ami .striped bass, 

 bluegilled sunHsh. erappie and catfish, a third showed ditl^'erent varieties 



