Mr. R, P. Holland, Vice President of the American 

 Game Protective Assiociation, reports as follows, with 

 reference to the activities of some of Connecticut's neigh- 

 boring States, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania. 



New York State operates three game farms and has also 

 set aside for recreational purposes, but not for game ex- 

 clusively, two large parks known as the Adirondack and 

 Catskill Parks. The New York Forest Preserve contains 

 approximately 2,000,000 acres. The New York State 

 Game Farms distributed to applicants over the state in 

 the year 1918, 59,318 pheasant eggs. From the returns 

 required by law, it was ascertained that 35 per cent, were 

 hatched and the birds reared to the age of liberation. 

 This same year the game farms planted 11,415 half -grown 

 pheasants. Therefore, in 1918 her State Game Farms 

 were responsible for approximately 33,000 pheasants. 



New York State requires that all gunners report the 

 game killed each year before they are entitled to a hunt- 

 ing license the following season. These reports show that 

 in 1919 35,855 pheasants were taken. As the law per- 

 mits only cock birds to be killed, it would appear that the 

 number of cock birds taken by the gunners exceeded the 

 number of hens and cocks produced by the game farms 

 the preceding year. I believe this is good proof that 

 New York's game farms are fulfilling their mission and 

 are stocking the state with pheasants which are repro- 

 ducing abundantly in the wild state. 



In 1919 the New York Commission had 1,392 applica- 

 tions for eggs and 604 applications for birds. They 

 distributed 91,735 eggs and 9,911 birds, a wonderful 

 increase over the preceding year. For the fiscal year 

 ending June, 1920, it is estimated that the commercial 

 value of the eggs and birds distributed from the game 

 farms and of adult birds obtained from breeding stock as 

 approximately $78,272.25. 



Below is a recapitulation showing how these figures 

 are arrived at including the disbursements of game bird 

 farms covering the same period : 



DISBURSEMENTS, GAME BIED FARMS 



Salaries $12,872.50 



Wages, temporary 2.965.31 



Maintenance and operation 19,716.82 



Total $35,554.63 



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