gional variations. More extensive research departments 

 •or laboratories should be maintained by a few of the 

 more important game-producing states and by the Federal 

 Government under the direction of the bureau .of Bio- 

 logical Survey to determine the exact biological facts re- 

 lating to breeding, feeding and life habits of birds and 

 mammals. 



The Biological Survey should be frequently consulted 

 to prevent duplication or overlapping, supplemented, of 

 course, by the scientific work" of the State. There should 

 be closer contact and more frequent meetings between 

 state and Federal officers. 



In the eastern or more densely populated states there 

 is ample opportunity for interstate parks and close inter- 

 state cooperation affecting the fish and game supplies for 

 such parks, as well as forest control and the control of 

 stream pollution. Most of the rivers and large streams 

 are interstate. 



The State Board of Education should cooperate in the 

 fullest possible way in bringing before the school children 

 the aims of the conservationists, the physical, moral and 

 ethical values of a day afield. 



There is a loud call to duty. Strong men are needed, 

 men of experience and vision to mould public opinion, 

 to turn the agitated mind away from city strife and re- 

 bellion against life, toward the sunlight. 



It is the workingman and his family who need most the 

 call of the wild. When their eyes are opened to the mys- 

 terious, mystic powers of nature, their gratitude will be 

 expressed in terms of better, citizenship, our State, our 

 Country better, its people far happier. 



Game 



Statistical 



Comparative record of fish and game activities, Con- 

 necticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New 

 Jersey. 



New York State Game Farms cost, — Number of pheas- 

 ants and pheasant eggs distributed. 



Number of deer reported killed in Connecticut last five 



years. 



Number of ponds and lakes in Connecticut — ^their acre- 

 age, mileage of fresh water streams. 



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