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has helped many to be successful in their efforts to aid in the produc- 

 tion of more game birds. 



A limited number of silver, golden, and Amherst pheasants are 

 produced each year and distributed to city parks as a part of our edu- 

 cational program. There was also purchased during the year 1930 a 

 shipment of 631 Hungarian partridges that were conditioned for a few 

 weeks on our farms and then released for stocking purposes. On 

 account of the fact that these partridges are difficult to handle on a 

 farm, no particular effort has been made to propagate them in a domes- 

 tic way as is done with quail, pheasants, and the Chukor partridge. 

 These birds are purchased direct from European exporters and released 

 after a few weeks conditioning into sections of the State that seem 

 best adapted for their natural increase. 



