﻿Forest, 
  Fish 
  and 
  Game 
  Commission 
  201 
  

  

  truck 
  farm 
  at 
  Pilgrimport. 
  Adjacent 
  is 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  woods 
  in 
  which 
  

   there 
  are 
  lots 
  of 
  pheasants. 
  Mr. 
  Myers 
  noticed 
  about 
  two 
  weeks 
  

   ago 
  that 
  the 
  pheasants 
  were 
  paying 
  great 
  attention 
  to 
  his 
  potato 
  

   patch. 
  Knowing 
  that 
  pheasants 
  can 
  pull 
  corn 
  faster 
  than 
  two 
  men 
  

   can 
  plant 
  it, 
  he 
  was 
  naturally 
  suspicious 
  and 
  inspected 
  the 
  field 
  

   closely 
  to 
  see 
  that 
  the 
  birds 
  did 
  not 
  dig 
  up 
  the 
  potatoes 
  by 
  the 
  hill. 
  

   Aided 
  by 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  field 
  glasses, 
  Mr. 
  Myers 
  saw 
  that 
  the 
  pheasants 
  

   were 
  not 
  after 
  the 
  potatoes 
  but 
  were 
  eating 
  the 
  bugs. 
  A 
  week 
  ago 
  

   Mr. 
  Myers 
  ran 
  upon 
  a 
  flock 
  of 
  young 
  pheasants. 
  He 
  hastily 
  built 
  

   a 
  wire 
  fence 
  around 
  a 
  small 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  potato 
  lot 
  and 
  put 
  the 
  

   flock 
  of 
  six 
  young 
  pheasants 
  in 
  the 
  enclosure. 
  That 
  flock 
  cleaned 
  

   the 
  potato 
  bugs 
  off 
  in 
  short 
  order. 
  He 
  next 
  removed 
  the 
  fence 
  al- 
  

   together 
  and 
  noticed 
  that 
  the 
  birds 
  hankered 
  so 
  much 
  for 
  the 
  juicy 
  

   bugs 
  that 
  he 
  did 
  not 
  have 
  to 
  invite 
  them 
  to 
  work. 
  Consequently 
  

   Mr. 
  Myers 
  is 
  saving 
  his 
  money, 
  while 
  other 
  farmers 
  are 
  buying 
  

   paris 
  green, 
  and 
  his 
  potato 
  lot 
  has 
  but 
  few 
  bugs 
  in 
  it." 
  

  

  The 
  " 
  Canandaigua 
  Repository 
  " 
  for 
  October 
  28th, 
  in 
  reporting 
  on 
  

   the 
  Ontario 
  pheasant 
  season, 
  says 
  : 
  " 
  What 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  

   most 
  successful 
  pheasant 
  season, 
  from 
  the 
  hunter's 
  point 
  of 
  view, 
  

   since 
  the 
  revision 
  of 
  the 
  game 
  laws, 
  will 
  close 
  to-morrow 
  * 
  * 
  * 
  

   When 
  pheasants 
  were 
  more 
  numerous 
  in 
  the 
  county 
  farmers 
  and 
  

   property-owners 
  generally 
  pronounced 
  the 
  birds 
  to 
  be 
  destructive. 
  

   This 
  view 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  changed 
  considerably 
  and 
  now 
  it 
  is 
  de- 
  

   clared 
  that, 
  although 
  the 
  birds 
  do 
  some 
  damage 
  when 
  the 
  crops 
  

   are 
  coming 
  up 
  yet 
  their 
  continual 
  warfare 
  against 
  harmful 
  insects 
  

   more 
  than 
  makes 
  up 
  for 
  the 
  damage." 
  

  

  SMALL 
  GAME. 
  

   The 
  season 
  of 
  1910 
  was 
  an 
  exceptionally 
  good 
  breeding 
  season 
  

   for 
  birds 
  and 
  small 
  game 
  in 
  most 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  In 
  localities 
  

   where 
  the 
  breeding 
  stock 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  exterminated 
  there 
  wa~ 
  a 
  

   gratifying 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  partridge. 
  The 
  number 
  

   of 
  sportsmen 
  have 
  increased 
  so 
  greatly 
  however, 
  that, 
  except 
  in 
  

   the 
  most 
  sparsely 
  settled 
  sections 
  of 
  the 
  State, 
  the 
  outlook 
  for 
  this 
  

   noble 
  game 
  bird 
  is 
  most 
  gloomy. 
  

  

  