168 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



GAME KILLED DURING SEASON OF 1919. 



Estimated 



Weight Total 



Number. Kind. of Each. Weight. 



2,913 Legal Male Deer 130 lbs. 378,690 lbs. 



472 Bear 200 " 94,400 " 



2,719,879 Rabbits 2 " 5,439,758 " 



439,106 Squirrels 1 " 439,106 " 



34,036 Racoons 8 " 272,288 " 



5,181 Wild Turkeys 12 V 2 " 64,762 " 



287,001 Ruffed Grouse iy 2 " 430,501 " 



15,658 Ring Neck Pheasants 3 " 46,974 " 



46,319 Virginia Quail 6 oz. 17,369 " 



575 Hungarian Quail 6 " 215 " 



27,769 Woodcock 6 " 10,413 " 



28,714 Wild Waterfowl 2 lbs. 57,428 " 



Total weight 7,251,904 lbs. 



The deer and bear were counted by Game Protectors in 

 the sportsmen's camps, so are perhaps under the total killed, 

 while the figures on small game are based on information 

 secured by our Protectors. 



The results attained have been so evident and so uni- 

 formly successful in all our preserves as to demonstrate 

 beyond any question the value of this idea. Our preserves 

 are no longer an experiment. The steady increase in the 

 supply of game in them, on the large public hunting ground 

 surrounding them, and in their neighborhood, has been re- 

 markable. The large northern deer imported from other 

 states and placed in these preserves have thrived and multi- 

 plied so that localities in which they were formerly plenti- 

 ful but had been exterminated are again populated with 

 these beautiful creatures of the woods. Our South Moun- 

 tain Preserve, located in Franklin County in 1907 and 

 stocked in the early spring of that year with three bucks 

 and twenty-three does, is a good example. In the fall of 

 1906 four deer were killed in that section, a buck, a doe 

 and two fawns, which about exterminated the deer. In 

 1919 426 bucks were killed. In 1913 we located on the 

 forest lands of Westmoreland County, within 60 miles of 

 Pittsburgh, a Preserve where deer had not been seen for 

 over 30 years. In the hunting season of 1918 fifty-five 

 bucks were killed there, and in the season of 1919 sixty- 

 three bucks, all the offspring of the twenty-one deer with 

 which this sanctuary was stocked. 



