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sportsmen, our Commission is making an observation extending over 

 an entire year to determine how many fish are carried through the 

 power plant, and the cause of death in each instance. Our biologist 

 makes post-mortem examinations of all fish caught. This information 

 will be of great value. 



GAME FARM. 



Shortly after Mr. Zellerbach became a member of the Commission 

 it was brought forcibly to his attention that California had lagged 

 behind in the construction and maintenance of game farms. He 

 thereupon made a trip to Oregon and Washington and investigated the 

 operations of game farms in those states. He came back to California 

 imbued with the idea that California must put herself upon a par with 



Fig. 1. Pen of five months old ring-necked pheasants reared at the State 

 Game Farm, season of 1926. The hatch for the first season was all that 

 could be expected and favorable reports are being received of the plants made. 

 Photograph by H. C. Bryant. 



the other western states, and he succeeded in obtaining from the 

 Governor and the Board of Control an extra appropriation of $50,000 

 to be devoted to the purpose of establishing a game farm. The only 

 other experiment in game farming which had ever been carried 

 on in California by the Commission was that at Hayward, some ten 

 years ago, which had been abandoned for reasons which I am unable 

 to understand. Through the good offices of the Board of Control, 

 a site was leased from the state near Yountville, in Napa County, 

 on the grounds of the state farm. To oversee the construction of the 

 game farm and take charge of it after completion, the Commission 

 employed August Bade, who had made a great success of similar work 

 in Washington. Through the generosity of our sister states of Wash- 



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