The value placed upon the furs taken during the same 

 period was $3,000,000. This gives us a total of $8,514,164, 

 which is 6 per cent, of $141,902,733. This is the value 

 of our breeding stock of game to the commonwealth and 

 we still have a substantial reserve in the old Bank of Na- 

 ture. 



"Although we do not raise English pheasants on game 

 farms you will note that we have been successful to a 

 certain extent, as in the season of 1920 we killed 42,000 

 of these birds. We also killed over half a million grouse, 

 which we think too many, and had our bag and daily lim- 

 its reduced in accordance with our revised game laws. 



"We still have faith in our game sanctuaries, and this 

 year we will have 32 of these miniature Yellowstone 

 Parks scattered throughout the state in operation." 



The Board of Game Commissioners of Pennsylvania 

 have prepared the following table showing the amount 

 of game animals and birds killed in that state. Only 8 

 per cent, of the gunners in Pennslyvania returned a report 

 to the commission, showing the amount of game they 

 killed last season. Taking the reports received from the 

 8 per cent., together wit"h the number of licenses issued, 

 the figures for the total amount of game killed were ob- 

 tained. 



Birds and animals, estimated kill, deer, legal bucks 

 3,300; bear, black 420; wild turkeys, 3,000; rabbits, 

 4,932,000 ; snowshoe rabbits, 70,200 ; squirrels, 1,250,000 ; 

 raccoons, 82,200; ruffed grouse, 507,600; ring-necked 

 pheasants, 42,000; quail, 79,800; wild geese, 2,640; wild 

 ducks, 81,000; blackbirds, 309,600; reedbirds, 65,520; 

 yellow-legs, snipe, rail, plover and woodcock,18,000. 



This shows 7,427,280 pieces of game killed, or 

 13,785,410 pounds of choice meat, using a conservative 

 weight for each piece of game. Figuring this meat at 

 40 cents a pound gives $5,514,164 as the cash dividend 

 returned last year from Pennslyvania's game. 



Mr. Donald McVicar, perhaps the leading authority in 

 the country on the raising of game birds, reports the result 

 of his experiments in the hand rearing of ruffed grouse 

 "Partridges" at Norfolk, Connecticut : 



I enclose my report of experiments carried out at Toby 

 on the Childs and Walcott preserve and under my direct 

 supervision. I have gone into detail pretty carefully and 

 I am now quite convinced from the valuable data obtained 

 in these tests that the problem of the ruffed grouse pro- 



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