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FOREST AND STREAM 
NEW YORK BUYS ANOTHER GAME FARM. 
Under the act of the Legislature appropriating 
$15,000 for the establishment of a game farm on 
Long Island, the New York Conservation Com¬ 
mission has decided to purchase two farms on 
Long Island. 
The Commission after a thorough examination 
of property suitable for a game farm on Long 
Island, selected this tract of 139 acres splendidly 
adapted to the propagation of game birds. It is 
protected on all sides by woodland and cannot be 
swept by hard winds. The sandy soil is well 
drained. Scrub oaks will furnish shade and 
cover for the young birds. A river frontage in 
addition to a small stream running through the 
farm provide ideal water conditions. On the 
property there are buildings, which can be 
utilized advantageously. The Commission will 
have the Long Island farm fully equipped, stock¬ 
ed and in operation by spring. 
GAME CONDITIONS IN ILLINOIS. 
Game is decreasing each year in Illinois, ac¬ 
cording to a report just issued by President Ditt- 
mar of the state fish and game conservation 
commission, not because of excessive shooting, 
but rather because the great increase in land val¬ 
ues has compelled more intensive farming. “Our 
thickets and other cover are fast disappearing,” 
the report continues, “and our lowlands are being 
brought under a high state of cultivation, so that 
there is very little suitable ground left for the 
wild birds.” 
To offset this procedure the commission has 
adopted the plan of establishing game preserves 
in each county, renting tracts of 1,000 acres at the 
nominal sum of $1 per year. On portions of these 
tracts the commission plants suitable grain, which 
is left standing for the use of the birds during 
the winter weather. These reservations can be 
maintained for about $50 per year, the report de¬ 
clares, and will result in the propagation of game 
to a large extent when tracts are set aside in each 
of the state’s 102 counties. 
The report declares that the sixty deputies, un¬ 
der the direction of six wardens, have been doing 
effective work, but the force is inadequate to 
cover the entire state. A deputy warden for each 
county is recommended to give better police pro¬ 
tection against violators of the game laws. 
The commission has become self-sustaining, the 
report declares. During the fiscal year there was 
received from the sale of game licenses $146,- 
756.42; from the sale of fish licenses, $6,072.78; 
fines collected, $5,415.13; from other sources, 
$1,772.39; making a toal of $160,016.73. Disburse¬ 
ments during the year totaled $153,909.53, leaving 
an unused balance in the treasury of $6,107.20. 
COUPON. 
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Subscription to FOREST AND 
STREAM. $1 a Year—50 Cents 6 
Months. 
Name. 
Address. 
F orest an d Stream 
WILL PRESENT 
Fifty Silver Cups 
To Successful Anglers in 1915 
COREST AND STREAM takes pleasure in announcing 
* that it will continue during the fishing season of 1915 the 
prize cup contest which proved so successful last year. 
The angler fortunate enough to capture the largest 
fish deserves a prize and FOREST AND STREAM will see 
that he (or she) gets it. There will be no red tape 
about the contest. This paper will place fifty handsome 
silver cups in as many public camps or summer hotels 
conducted for the angling fraternity in different sections of 
the country. 
The cup in each case will go to the person who 
catches the record fish during the season of 1915, as veri¬ 
fied to Forest AND Stream by the management of the 
hotel or camp. 
The contest is open to all, subscribers and non¬ 
subscribers as well. Where different varieties of fish are 
caught in the same section, the management of the camp 
or the hotel can determine to which variety the cup will 
be limited, or it may be that arrangements will be made 
later for cups to be given for different species of fish. 
More definite announcement of the contest will be 
made in an early issue, together with a list of summer 
camps to which the cups have been consigned. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
22 Thames Street, New York 
