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adapted in all respects for the propagation of game birds. Seventy-five 

 acres of this farm have been fenced with woven-wire fencing eight feet high. 

 Pheasant pens have been built, and a stock of birds either secured or con- 

 tracted for, with a view to beginning operations in propagating game birds 

 for the season of 19 10. The chief birds raised will be English pheasants 

 and the common partridge of Europe, otherwise known as the Hungarian 

 partridge. Under favorable conditions the State should be able to supply 

 six thousand or more birds and a number of thousand eggs for propagating 

 and stocking purposes next year. It is likely that these birds will be sup- 

 plied under somewhat similar conditions to the requirements for procuring 

 State trout. They will not be supplied for posted lands, and the applicant 

 will be required to promise to put the birds out in favorable localities, and 

 also to give them some general supervision. Applications will be ready 

 for distribution in the spring. The State game farm is under the manage- 

 ment of Harry T. Rogers, who for six years held a similar position in 

 Illinois, and who has had a lifelong experience in the rearing and caring 

 for game birds. 



Notable Cases 



On September 16th, in following up a clue procured by Mr. George M. 

 Fayles, the clerk to the Chief Protector, Acting Division Chief Dorlon 

 discovered a quantity of game which had not been bonded, in the Harrison 

 street "Freezer" in New York city. This game included 5,734 birds which 

 had been billed as "broilers," "lamb fries," etc., and consigned to the 

 storage company by men acting as dummies for several of the large New 

 York dealers in game. This case, which involves penalties of thousands of 

 dollars, will be tried out in the courts during the winter. 



The Piseco region in Hamilton county has been one of the unregenerate 

 sections of the State as regards game law violation. Two years ago, while 

 jacking deer in defiance of the law, Hobart Caslor and John Burton saw the 

 reflection from an extinguished jacklight in a boat operated by William 

 Courtney, which they mistook for the reflection from a deer's eyes. One 

 of the men fired a shot, which resulted in the wounding of Courtney. Pro- 

 tector Frank Stanyon took up the matter, with the result that Caslor and 

 Burton were both convicted of jacking and fined. No action was taken 



