202 Foubth Annual Report of the 



GAME FARMS 



The popularity of the pheasant still continues to increase, and 

 it is no doubt one of the coming game birds of the State. At 

 least two additional game farms should be provided for this year, 



TAXIDERMISTS* LICENSE 



Not as a revenue getter, but purely from the standpoint of con- 

 trol, taxidermists should be required to apply to this Commission 

 for and be granted by it a license to engage in the business of 

 taxidermy. 



FEDERAL MIGRATORY BIRD LAW 



It is highly important that every effort should be made to 

 harmonize the conflicting provisions of the State Conservation 

 Law and the law giving protection to migratory birds. 



FEEDING OF WILD GAME 



We find that from year to year the ducks are making the in- 

 land waters of the State their winter quarters. This is owing to 

 the rigid protection given to the wild life of the State, which is 

 not being molested or killed during the close season to any great 

 extent. As the waters gradually became frozen over, we found it 

 necessary, in order to preserve the ducks, to have them fed by 

 the protective force of the State. Therefore an appropriation 

 should be made to carry on this work the same as in the past. 



Experience has shown that the cutting of the marsh hay and 

 stacking it for the deer has saved a great many of the smaller 

 deer. One of the protectors, in visiting a beaver meadow where 

 hay had been cut and stacked, informed me that there were a 

 great many deer feeding upon the hay, and in fact in the vicinity 

 where the hay was stacked, it looked like a sheep yard. This is 

 true game protection. I trust that there may not be any difficulty 

 in getting a suitable appropriation to carry on this work. 



STATE GAME FARM 



In closing, I wish to call the Commission's attention to the 

 gradual increase from year to year in the number of pheasants 

 and eggs which are being sent out from the game farm at Sher- 



