STOCKING OP GAME 
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While, the protection and increase of our native game 
"birds and animals is of paramount .importance, as desirable game 
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of no kind is available in large quantities, the Game Commis¬ 
sion has since 1915 stocked as much game of various kinds as has 
been available, increasing our stock of game by restocking is 
not only slow and difficult, but quite expensive, prior to May 
1 st, this year, which is about the average, we Will complete 
the distribution of game approximately as follows-. 
Wild Turkeys,., 
.2,500 
Ring-neck pheasants 
Bob-white Quail. . . . . 
Varying Hares,.. 
, 10,000 to 15,000 
. 3,000 
. 18,000 
Cotton-tail Rabbits. 
This game, however, is merely a ’’drop in the bucket*' in 
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Comparison with what can be accomplished in protecting properly 
our native stock. The stray, half-starved dog, the wild field- 
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hunting house cat, Vermin and poachers destroy ten times the 
amount of game we can possibly stock in any one year. - Sports- 
FUTURE PROGRAM 
As 1 understand it, the present intention of the Game 
Commission is to continue their various activities in about the 
same manner as above outlined, providing no legislation inter¬ 
fering with such plans is passed. It is the general concensus 
of opinion that our laws on game today , taken as a whole, , 4 r£ 
protesting bitterly against constant tinkering with the game laws. 
However, if the Legislature insists on making minor changes here 
and there, the sportsmen for their own protection must take a 
hand in the matter and see to it that the general structure is im¬ 
proved and not impared. 
Jf any desirable legislation affecting sportsmen is to 
be considered this coming session, I give below four (4) matters 
for consideration in the order of their importance as follows; 
1. Legislation that will bring about a better understand¬ 
ing between sportsmen and land-owners. 
2. Codify all game laws into one compact code, with pract¬ 
ically no changes whatever in the application of the 
law. 
3 . A uniform season for all small upland game, including 
woodcock and rabbits, for the month of November only. 
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