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REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE GAME FARM. 

 The Honorable Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 



Gentlemen : For the past two years the commission has been on the 

 verge of abandoning the Game Farm. Difficulties with the owner of the 

 land upon which the Game Farm is located, the fact that the commis- 

 sion feels that sufficient attempts to stock the state with pheasants have 

 been made, and the general unfitness of tho location for the work, each 

 have contributed to this situation. 



Fig. 68. Exhibit of State Game Farm at Children's Pets Exhibition, held at the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition, 1915. Photograph by Cardinell-Vincent Company. 



Being unable to satisfactorily terminate the lease in 1915, your board 

 decided to maintain the farm as an experimental station, devoting 

 energy to the rearing of game indigenous to the state, such as valley 

 quail, ducks and deer. Working under the above handicap, we have 

 been unable to attain results which could have been attained under more 

 favorable circumstances. Beginning with the fiscal year 1916, the 

 surplus stock will be offered to breeders. Thus it is intended to make 

 the Game Farm in a measure self-supporting. 



Pheasants. 

 During the season of 1915, we had poor success with pheasants. 

 Whereas a few broods did well and matured into fine birds, others were 



