﻿198 
  Sixteenth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  share 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  fencing 
  the 
  farm 
  and 
  of 
  building 
  the 
  vari- 
  

   ous 
  pens 
  and 
  enclosures 
  required 
  for 
  the 
  operation 
  of 
  the 
  enter- 
  

   prise. 
  Seventy-five 
  movable 
  breeding 
  pens, 
  twelve 
  by 
  sixteen 
  feet 
  

   in 
  size 
  and 
  six 
  feet 
  high, 
  have 
  been 
  built; 
  also 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  

   fifty 
  individual 
  coops 
  and 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  wire 
  screens, 
  

   which 
  are 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  rearing 
  of 
  the 
  small 
  birds. 
  Two 
  large 
  fields 
  

   have 
  been 
  enclosed 
  by 
  wire 
  fences 
  nine 
  feet 
  high 
  ; 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  

   fields 
  is 
  ten 
  acres 
  in 
  extent 
  and 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  breeding 
  birds 
  ; 
  the 
  

   other 
  comprises 
  eighty 
  acres 
  and 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  young 
  birds. 
  

  

  The 
  farm 
  has 
  been 
  run 
  economically. 
  It 
  has 
  produced 
  most 
  of 
  

   the 
  grain 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  birds. 
  During 
  1910 
  the 
  farm 
  produced 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  twenty-one 
  bushels 
  of 
  buckwheat, 
  forty 
  bushels 
  of 
  

   wheat, 
  three 
  hundred 
  and 
  seventy-two 
  bushels 
  of 
  oats 
  and 
  five 
  hun- 
  

   dred 
  bushels 
  of 
  shelled 
  corn. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Rogers 
  has 
  accomplished 
  much 
  by 
  hard 
  and 
  diligent 
  work. 
  

   The 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  farm 
  has 
  been 
  improved, 
  the 
  buildings 
  re- 
  

   paired, 
  and 
  a 
  modern 
  plant 
  for 
  the 
  rearing 
  of 
  game 
  birds 
  fully 
  

   equipped 
  ; 
  and 
  this 
  result 
  has 
  been 
  accomplished 
  with 
  a 
  saving 
  of 
  

   three 
  thousand 
  dollars 
  in 
  the 
  amount 
  appropriated 
  for 
  the 
  bird 
  

   farm. 
  Next 
  year 
  from 
  three 
  to 
  four 
  times 
  as 
  many 
  birds 
  and 
  eggs 
  

   will 
  be 
  shipped 
  as 
  in 
  1910. 
  

  

  PHEASANTS 
  IN 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

   The 
  fact 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  there 
  is 
  shooting 
  for 
  

   pheasants 
  in 
  sixteen 
  counties 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  is 
  chiefly 
  due 
  to 
  

   an 
  earlier 
  experiment 
  of 
  the 
  Forest, 
  Fish 
  and 
  Game 
  Com- 
  

   mission 
  in 
  raising 
  and 
  distributing 
  these 
  birds 
  for 
  stocking 
  pur- 
  

   poses. 
  For 
  six 
  years 
  prior 
  to 
  1904 
  the 
  State 
  sent 
  out 
  an 
  average 
  

   of 
  something 
  less 
  than 
  two 
  hundred 
  birds 
  per 
  year 
  to 
  applicants 
  

   in 
  various 
  counties. 
  Of 
  these 
  birds 
  Monroe 
  county 
  received 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  thirty-five, 
  which 
  was 
  the 
  largest 
  number 
  appor- 
  

   tioned 
  to 
  any 
  county; 
  next 
  in 
  order 
  was 
  Steuben, 
  which 
  received 
  

   seventy-nine, 
  Jefferson 
  seventy-six 
  and 
  Niagara 
  seventy-one. 
  The 
  

   total 
  number 
  of 
  birds 
  sent 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  six 
  years 
  was 
  less 
  than 
  the 
  

   number 
  sent 
  out 
  from 
  the 
  State 
  Bird 
  Farm 
  at 
  Sherburne 
  durine 
  

  

  