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Bird -Lore 



the Hunter's License Law providing that all persons over fourteen years of age, 

 instead of twenty-one, must take out a license to hunt; protection of bear, gray 

 and black fox squirrel which have not had protection in the past in Minnesota; 

 and a law providing for the codification and revision of the Game and Fish 

 Laws to be presented to the next session of the Legislature; also, an appro- 

 priation of $15,000 for the maintenance of a State Game Farm for two years. 

 Upon this appropriation being made, the MinneapoHs Branch turned over to 

 the State, on May i, 1917, the Big Island Game Farm where more than 3,000 



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PINNATED GROUSE, OR PRAIRIE CHICKENS, AFTER BEING CURED OF JIGGERS AND 

 READY TO LEAVE THE HOSPITAL. 



birds were reared and distributed this year. The Minneapolis Branch main- 

 tained the same number of paid employees as given in the Annual Report,' 

 with the exception of the Big Island Game Farm where I am now employed by 

 the State as Superintendent of Game Propagation. 



Since the Minneapohs Branch started, in March, 19 15, with a paid Field 

 Secretary, much work has been accomplished, especially in the way of establish- 

 ment of game refuges. The Refuge Law was passed in 19 15 through the efforts 

 of the Minneapolis Branch. The Minne tonka Game Refuge, covering 69,000 

 acres, was the first refuge established under this law. There are now more than 

 2,000,000 acres in game refuges, which include the Superior National Forest 



