210 TwENTT-FlEST BlENNIAL RePOKT 



In the eleven-acre enclosure set aside by the State 

 Fair Board for this permanent exhibit, fifteen deer are 

 now held. (The herd will be kept at about this number 

 and the increase sent to the game preserves throughout 

 the State.) 



There were twelve varieties of imported pheasants 

 in the exhibit during fair week. Besides pens contain- 

 ing wild turkey and eleven varieties of wild duck and 

 geese, there were four varieties of squirrel shown, and 

 the first car, in full operation, was open to inspection. 



The State Fair Commission has fallen heir to six 

 alligators that are now being cared for and to be added 

 to the exhibit. By the addition of pens of rabbits, coons, 

 foxes, possum, and various other native animals, with 

 a covey of Bob White quail and a few other birds, all of 

 which is contemplated, this exhibit develops into the pro- 

 portions of a real zoo. 



The Q-ame and Fish Commission is in no way a bur- 

 den upon the taxpayer of the State, but draws its rev- 

 enue from the sale of hunters' license, and a small per 

 cent, of the fines imposed against violators. In the two 

 years since the last biennial report, from October, 1913, 

 to October, 1915, there have been 551 convictions for 

 violations of the game and fish laws, and hundreds of 

 fish nets and traps have been destroyed. There are 

 12,365 miles of running streams in Kentucky, which, 

 under present conditions, produce considerably over one 

 million dollars woi^li of food fish each year. This could 

 be easily doubled if the laws of the State were strictly 

 observed. The game wardens captured and destroyed 

 1,088 hoop and wing nets in one season; these nets were 

 taken from less than 500 miles of stream, and each net 

 of this type is estimated to take over 1,000 lbs. of fish 

 a year, which means that these nets illegally took over 

 one million and eighty-eight thousand pounds of fish 

 annually. 



DiSTBrBUTION OF FiSH. 



The United States Government, through its Fish- 

 eries Department, has facilities for distributing fish to 

 the various States, but they have refused to plant fish 

 in territory that is not protected, saying it was useless 



