78 FIFTEENTH REPORT OF THE FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



Recommendations. 



I respectfully recommend as follows : 



First. That the Buck Deer Law of 1909 be repealed. 



Second. That the 150 towns outside of the preserve in the Adirondack 

 counties, put into the law as fire towns in 1909, be stricken out. 



Third. That more protectors be provided. They are needed and the 

 revenues from hunting licenses warrant it. 



Fourth. That the Albany office force be increased by at least two 

 stenographers and one accountant. 



Fifth. That commercial seedling trees be produced on a scale large 

 enough to supply at least 30,000,000 annually to the people at a price lower 

 than cost. At least $100,000 should be used each year in this work. We 

 are not growing one twenty-fifth as many as we ought. 



Sixth. That land dedicated to tree growing and planted with trees be 

 relieved from increased taxation for, say, thirty years. 



Seventh. That provision be made for money enough to acquire a million 

 acres of land in the Adirondack Preserve and 400,000 acres in the Catskill 

 Preserve immediately. Many million dollars in timber value will be saved 

 to the State if this is promptly done. 



Eighth . That the Constitution be amended as indicated by the proposed 

 amendment submitted herewith, and for the purposes therein indicated. 



Ninth. That the Long Island Brant Law be repealed, and also that 

 part of the law permitting the possession of wild fowl after the close of the 

 season for shooting them. 



We suggested, at the conclusion of the report to the Legislature for 

 1908, to wit, that " advancement in these respects should be more rapid 

 in the future than it has been in the past." As may be seen by the facts 

 herein set forth the suggestion was well founded, for during the year 1909 

 greater advancement was made than in any preceding year. We are much 

 pleased to be able to report that fact. 



Trusting that all the Department has done and accomplished will 

 meet with the approval of the Legislature. 



This report is respectfully submitted. 



James S. Whipple, 



Commissioner. 



