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Nobody Seems to Know Why, But the Verdict is That it is a Step Backward 
—Great Rafts of Ducks on Bays, But Bad Weather Prevented Shooting 
By Edward T. Martin. 
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The California State Control Board has or¬ 
dered the Game Farm closed and the abandon¬ 
ment of all efforts at game propagation. Rea¬ 
sons given. First. “The expense is too great.” 
Second. “The purpose of the farm, the edu¬ 
cation of the people and the teaching of them 
that wild game can be successfully raised in 
captivity, has been accomplished.” 
What reasons! The revenue from shooting li¬ 
censes, fines, permits and such will run from 
$160,000 to $175,000 yearly. To a man up a 
tree it does seem as if the $6,500 required to 
operate the game farm could be spared so the 
gunner would get something for his money and 
not everything be given to fish, as is now in¬ 
tended; that if there is to be a paring down and 
economy necessary, like charity it should begin 
at home, right in the luxurious headquarters 
maintained by the Game Commissioner in San 
Francisco. There is no question but that the 
farm could be made self sustaining, if it is a 
question of dollars and cents, by selling to other 
breeders all surplus stock, and marketing as 
other pheasant raisers do. Such of these last 
birds as there is no demand for alive, particu¬ 
larly if expenses be further reduced by not cart¬ 
ing the game all over California for exhibition 
purposes. 
The second reason is really a strong argument 
for continuing the work. The people are still 
sadly lacking in education as far as game is con¬ 
cerned. If it has been demonstrated that wild 
game can be raised successfully in captivity— 
and it certainly has—why stop now? Have we 
too much game? Five years were spent in cost¬ 
ly experiments. Hungarian partridges, semi-wild 
turkeys, deer and such were all tried and found 
wanting. Year by year errors of previous sea¬ 
sons were corrected until it became evident that 
mallards, teal and probably wood ducks could be 
raised to advantage on the farm, as could quail. 
There is good money in pheasants if kept con¬ 
fined and not released to benefit the coyotes and 
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bob-cats. Then, when everything looked rosy 
and it seemed certain that thousands of ducks 
and quail could be bred and benefits arising in 
the future offset the losses of the past, the poli¬ 
ticians at Sacramento say, “Close up the shop.” 
But then what does the average politician know 
about game propagation or care for the vanish¬ 
ing wild life? “The ducks can’t vote, neither 
can the quail. Let them go. We will take so 
much more of the shooters’ money and build 
another fish hatchery where it will do us the 
most good come next November,” seems to be 
their way of thinking. 
The duck season of 1915-16 is over and a very 
unsatisfactory winter for shooting it has been. 
When the season opened there were very many 
native birds in all the marshes but the heavy 
bombardment of the opening two days scattered 
them everywhere. 
Shooting in the early season was hurt too by 
running the water off the vast duck country, as 
Los Banos property belonging to the cattle firm 
of Miller and Lux, was drained and became a 
grazing ranch instead of a duck marsh. 
Around the Alvarado Marshes, the south end 
of San Francisco Bay and on the Oliver ponds 
there was considerable early season shooting. 
Then the storms came and the ducks went. 
Before the last severe storm the writer went 
sailing on the Bay, after news and facts. “Bring 
your rod, a gun will only be in the way,” his 
boatman wrote. Starting one morning about 
eight oclock from the Berkeley wharf he sailed 
some three miles north west, then about five 
miles more, first east then north to near the light 
house beyond Sheep Island; fished a little off 
Rat Rock and in covering all these miles of bay 
did not see 100 ducks excepting some flocks 
high up coming in from the north. About two 
o’clock it began to blow and “Safety First” said 
“Go Home.” The section of bay so barren of 
ducks in the morning was alive in the after¬ 
noon. Great rafts of bluebills, larger flocks of 
canvas backs than I have ever seen since shoot¬ 
ing in Texas nearly thirty years ago when a 
hundred ducks between sunrise and sunset was 
a common bag. They were all new birds just 
in from the north and very tired. In fact so 
weary that I sailed within sixty yards of a 
bunch containing a thousand or more and when 
they flew it was to go but a couple of hundred 
yards or so and settle on the water again. From 
end to end the flock must have been over a 
mile in length and several hundred yards in 
width. 
The location where these ducks were, was 
several miles from shore in rough water where 
no one but a crazy hunter or some other lunatic 
would think of venturing, at least in a fifteen 
foot boat. Since that day it has stormed with¬ 
out ceasing for nearly two weeks and while I 
have not been out they tell me the birds all went 
as soon as they had a feed and a rest, undoubt¬ 
edly south, probably as far as Mexico. 
