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REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



cooked chopped meat. While the birds apparently relished this food, 

 the results did not justify the time and energy expended. 



During the 1916 season the birds were brooded on a la\\Ta, thus 

 affording them plenty of greens. Plain dry feed consisting of cracked 

 wheat, cut oats with a sprinkling each of charcoal, ground green bone 

 and oyster shell, which required practically no time to mix, was fed 

 them. The birds appeared to do just as well on this dry mixture, 

 which is more preferable, as it does not become stale and sour. 



Fig. 70. Young pheasant chicks at State Game Farm. Photograph by W. N. Dirks. 



Exhibitions. 

 The commission has exhibited the birds from the Game Farm at 

 various poultry shows and county fairs. This has been done for the 

 purpose of advertising the activities of the commission in the propa- 

 gation of game and to educate people regarding opportunities in the 

 breeding of pheasants, ducks and other game birds, both for stocking 

 and for food purposes. ]\Iuch interest was developed by these exhibi- 

 tions, especially by those which were held at the State Fair and the 

 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. At the Exposition there 

 were displayed several varieties of quail, pheasants and ducks, the 

 exhibit occupying a floor space of 12 by 100 feet. From the keen 

 interest displayed at this exhibit, there appears to be a wide tield for 

 work of this nature. It gives those interested in hunting an oppor- 

 tunity to realize the beauty and variety of wild life, at the same time 

 creating a more generally intelligent understanding of the work of 

 the commission. 



