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and Game Commission has been invited to instruct the children at the 

 camp regarding wild life conservation. 



A large section of the state has been covered, people met, complaints 

 heard and information given regarding the activities of the commission. 



The activities of the commission have been given publicity through a 

 weekly column which has been edited in the San Francisco Bulletin. 



The best work we have done, so far as we can judge, has been among 

 the outside deputies. Their various problems have been solved or at 

 least explained so that they can work independently. Each deputy 

 with whom we have come in contact has been studied and an effort made 

 to make him more useful to the state. The men all seem to be well 

 pleased at the new order of things and they have gladly laid all their 

 problems before us and have received our instructions with every evi- 

 dence of appreciation. 



It is the almost universal rule that the field deputies of this com- 

 mission are very anxious to get results and to live up to the standards 

 which the commission has set for them. The average deputy finds it 

 hard to comply with various orders sent out by the head office in the 

 manner expected by the commission. In justice to the deputies, account 

 should be taken of the fact that the average patrolman who is in the field 

 all day and has his mind upon his next day's work during his waking 

 hours, is not in a position to do good work in the way of making reports 

 and complying accurately with some of the orders sent to him. As a 

 matter of fact, he often has small time to seriously study some orders 

 which are to him a little unusual. "We have been of material assistance 

 to the fieldmen in showing them how to comply with such instructions. 



Very naturally, the scope and importance of the work of the Field 

 Agent will be enlarged and the value of the results accomplished can be 

 judged to better advantage after the work has been under way a longer 

 period of time. 



Respectfully submitted. 



(Signed) A. D. Ferguson, 



Field Agent. 



