﻿Forest, 
  Fish 
  ani> 
  Game 
  Commission 
  197 
  

  

  latter 
  season 
  twenty-six 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty-three 
  deer 
  were 
  

   shipped. 
  Then 
  the 
  snow 
  hunting 
  was 
  taken 
  off 
  and 
  in 
  1907 
  and 
  

   1908 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  deer 
  shipped, 
  respectively, 
  was 
  just 
  under 
  

   twenty-two 
  hundred. 
  1909, 
  with 
  the 
  fifteen 
  days 
  in 
  November 
  

   added, 
  the 
  record 
  shipment 
  of 
  thirty 
  hundred 
  and 
  twenty-five 
  was 
  

   recorded. 
  

  

  It 
  will 
  thus 
  be 
  seen 
  that, 
  aside 
  from 
  the 
  poor 
  season 
  of 
  1904 
  

   (and 
  making 
  a 
  proper 
  allowance 
  for 
  seasons 
  when 
  snow 
  hunting 
  

   has 
  been 
  permitted) 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  regular 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  of 
  deer 
  killed 
  each 
  season. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  as 
  might 
  be 
  expected 
  in 
  a 
  State 
  whose 
  population 
  has 
  

   increased 
  one 
  quarter 
  in 
  ten 
  years. 
  Were 
  it 
  not 
  for 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  

   the 
  area 
  inhabited 
  by 
  the 
  deer 
  is 
  much 
  larger 
  than 
  it 
  was 
  when 
  

   hounding 
  was 
  permitted, 
  the 
  future 
  of 
  the 
  deer 
  supply 
  would 
  be 
  

   seriously 
  menaced. 
  It 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  at 
  least 
  four 
  times 
  as 
  many 
  

   deer 
  are 
  killed 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  as 
  are 
  transported 
  by 
  the 
  express 
  com- 
  

   panies 
  from 
  the 
  Adirondacks. 
  Only 
  a 
  very 
  small 
  proportion 
  of 
  

   the 
  deer 
  killed, 
  in 
  the 
  territory 
  around 
  the 
  big 
  woods, 
  are 
  shipped 
  

   by 
  rail. 
  With 
  the 
  annual 
  kill 
  around 
  the 
  ten 
  thousand 
  mark 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  steady 
  ratio 
  of 
  increase 
  that 
  now 
  obtains, 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  

   a 
  question 
  of 
  time 
  when 
  more 
  restrictive 
  regulations 
  must 
  be 
  

   adopted. 
  

  

  STATE 
  GAME 
  BIRD 
  FARM 
  

  

  The 
  State 
  Bird 
  Farm, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  operation 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  

   a 
  year, 
  has 
  sent 
  out 
  about 
  1,200 
  pheasants 
  for 
  stocking 
  purposes 
  

   and 
  sixty-five 
  hundred 
  eggs. 
  These 
  eggs 
  and 
  birds 
  have 
  gone 
  into 
  

   every 
  county 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  Three 
  thousand 
  eggs 
  were 
  used 
  for 
  

   hatching 
  at 
  the 
  farm, 
  from 
  which 
  two 
  thousand 
  birds 
  were 
  reared 
  

   to 
  maturity. 
  Six 
  hundred 
  breeding 
  birds 
  are 
  retained 
  at 
  the 
  farm, 
  

   also 
  twenty-five 
  pairs 
  of 
  English 
  partridge 
  and 
  ten 
  pairs 
  of 
  quail. 
  

   The 
  pheasants 
  reared 
  on 
  the 
  farm 
  include 
  the 
  English 
  ring 
  neck, 
  

   the 
  Mongolian 
  and 
  the 
  Hungarian 
  dark 
  necked 
  pheasants. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  propagating 
  the 
  game 
  birds, 
  Harry 
  

   T. 
  Rogers, 
  manager 
  of 
  the 
  bird 
  farm, 
  has 
  himself 
  done 
  a 
  large 
  

  

  