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OFFICE OF THE 
BOARD OF GAME COMMISSIONERS 
Harrisburg, pa. 
GENERAL GAME FORECAST 
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While it is difficult to forecast with any degree of 
accuracy what game conditions will be during tie hunting season, 
since much depends upon weather conditions, food conditions, 
etc., according to recent reports received by the Game Commiss¬ 
ion from all parts of the State the 1922 hunting season taken 
throughout will probably be the most successful Pennsylvania 
sportsmen have ever enjoyed. 
ACTIVITIES SINCE 1915 - 
Since June 1, 1915 , the Game Commission has operated 
entirely on funds supplied by the sportsmen of the state, and 
an effort has been made to spend every penny of that money to 
the best advantage possible. The first principle of wild life 
conservation is protection of the native breeding stock, which 
means not only the enforcement of the game laws but destroying 
vermin, feeding game in the winter time, restocking, etc. 
The maintenance of the field organization ox Game Pro¬ 
tectors, maintenance of game refuges, - employment of refuge keep¬ 
ers, employment,of special officers in the fall, feeding of game 
and similar activities have taken up a large portion of the 
funds paid in by the sportsmen, but since 191 ? a total of almost 
$1,000,000 has been paid out in bounties on vermin of various 
kinds, $27?,000 for the purchase of game,$47,000 for expressage, 
$12?,000 for the purchase of lands for refuges, and many other 
activities requiring lesser expenditures. 
Almost $300,000 of the amount paid out for bounties 
was paid through the Auditor General’s Department under the pro¬ 
visions of the Bounty Act of 1913 f°r which we have no record o:: 
the animals killed, and the balance of it was used to pay bounties 
through this office on more than 3>000 v/ild Cats, ?3,000 foxes, 
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26,000 minks (now off the bounty list), and 31?»00° weasels. In 
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