
GAME CONDITIONS IN YAMHILL COUNTY 
By Warpen O. B. Parker, McMinnville, Oregon 
The game situation looks good for the coming season in Yamhill 
County—it being one of the best hunting grounds in the state for upland 
birds. Although the past season was a hard one, we had very good hunt- 
ing during the open season. There were about twenty-five of the Me- 
Minnville sportsmen who came in with the bag limit the first day. I 
think this was due to the fact that the birds were fed and well cared 
for during the hard winter; consequently it is important that everyone 
interested in the welfare of our game birds should give this work all 
of the assistance possible during the winter snow storms. 
If the weather is favorable during the brooding season, we will 
have a fine crop of Chinese pheasants, as there are plenty of birds left 
for this year’s hatch. 
The Bob-white and California quail are doing very well considering 
the past hard winter, which was more severe on the small birds. During 
the past three years, about eighteen hundred Bob-white quail have been 
trapped in this locality and liberated in different parst of the state. 
We have decided not to trap this year and give the birds a chance to 
increase. In some places large covies are reported, while in other local- 
ities there are not so many. 
There are several nice covies of Hungarian partridge in this local- 
ity. These birds were imported by our Game Commission about four 
years ago. They are an interesting and pretty bird, somewhat larger 
than our quail, and I am anxious to have them get a good start. 
On account of the long dry fall there has been no water in many of 
the lakes and duck hunting is not as good as usual here this season. 
Reports from the Coast Mountains show the deer hunters have had 
fair sport, several getting the limit. About one hundred deer were 
killed during the open season by the sportsmen of this district. 
GAME CONDITIONS IN CURRY COUNTY 
By WarvEen Roy Dickson, Gold Beach, Oregon 
Curry County has more deer than any other county in the state of 
Oregon. And it also has more good hunting grounds. Most of the coun- 
ties in the state are largely taken up in farms, but Curry County is 
still in the raw state, with the exception of a small strip along the Coast 
and a few small valleys along the rivers. 
There is more natural feed in Curry County for deer than in most 
places. We have the sweet oak, Sargent or tan oak, live oak, white oak 
and black oak acorns, besides plenty of small shrubs and bushes that 
they browse upon. There are also numerous small prairies and glades 
