County Treasurers receive 50 jf. The 1922 issuance of licenses 
mill probably he somewhere between 47 i ,000 and 500,000. In pen- 
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nsylvania we issue with each hunter’s license a tag 3 1/2” x 
4 5/8" made of a good quality of fabricoid, on which are print¬ 
ed the number of the license and the number of the county in 
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which issued for identification purposes. I will discuss the 
benefits of this tag later* 
ACTIVITIES SINCE 1915 
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ince .June 1 , 1915 , when we began operating exclu¬ 
sively with the funds supplied by sportsmen, the annual dis- 
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bursements for all purposes have gradually increased until at 
this time the average annual expenditure is $500,000 per year. 
While a half million dollars Is quite a snug sum to spend an¬ 
nually in behalf of the sportsmen of Pennsylvania in compari- 
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son with $1,500 per year appropriated in 1901, it still does 
not permit intensive covering of the State in keeping with the 
rapidly growing population and ever changing conditions. We 
have in Pennsylvania an area of 45*,000 square miles. In 
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when our Board was organized, we had a population og slightly 
over five million (5.000,000) with a goodly amount of virgin 
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forest still standing. Today with a population of nine mil¬ 
lion (9,000,000) people, the virgin forests cut and devastated 
and our highly developed industrial activities, with an increase 
of at least 300 to 500 per cent in the number of sportsmen In 
the State, the problem confronting us is an entirely differ¬ 
ent one from what it was in 1895* As the population increases, 
industrial activities are enlarged, an attendant increase in 
the number of hunters, these problems will gradually become 
more acute, and the same condition undoubtedly applies in a num¬ 
ber of other States today. • • 
The first principle of 'wild life conservation is the 
protection of the native breeding stock 
This means not only 
education of the neo-ole to the purpose of the laws and their 
enforcement, but also destroying vermin, feeding game in the 
