April 15, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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GAME IN NEW YORK STATE. 
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Contnued from page 578. 
greater opportunity of securing convictions for 
violation of the hounding law than at the pres 
cnt time. Under present conditions the hardest 
kind of a case the protector .has to make is a 
hounding case. His greatest difficulty is to show 
in his evidence the connection between the hun¬ 
ters and the dogs. With the law amended as 
suggested when the illegal hunting was done, the 
dog would undoubtedly be run with his collar 
off and no tag, and all that would be necessary 
to make a case would be to establish the iden¬ 
tity of the dog, which is a much simpler propo 
sition. 
I here can be no doubt that since hounding was 
stopped there has been a great increase in the 
number of deer in the State. 
I he State bird farm, which has been in opera 
lion a little over a year, has sent out about 1,200 
pheasants for stocking purposes and sixty-five 
hundred eggs. These eggs and birds have gone 
into every county in the State. Three thousand 
eggs were used for hatching at the farm, from 
which 2,000 birds were reared to maturity. Six 
hundred breeding birds are retained at the farm, 
also twenty-five pairs of English partridge and 
ten pairs of quail. The pheasants reared on the 
farm include the English ring-neck, the Mon¬ 
golian and the Hungarian dark-necked pheasants. 
1 he farm has been run economically. It has 
produced most of the grain used by the birds. 
During 1910 the farm produced 121 bushels of 
buckwheat, forty bushels of wheat, 372 bushels 
of oats and 500 bushels of shelled corn. 
Mr. Rogers has accomplished much by hard 
and diligent work. The condition of the farm 
has been improved, the buildings repaired, and 
a modern plant for the rearing of game birds 
fully equipped, and this result has been accom¬ 
plished with a saving of $3,000 in the amount 
appropriated for the bird farm. Next year from 
three to four times as many birds and eggs will 
be shipped as in 1910. 
1 he fact that at the present time there is 
shooting for pheasants in sixteen counties in 
the State is chiefly due to an early experiment 
of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission in 
raising and distributing these birds for stocking 
purposes. 
The farmers, it appears, have many of them 
changed their minds regarding the pheasants. It 
is not long since many complaints were made 
that the Chinese pheasant was an enemy of the 
agriculturist and an active agent in the destruc¬ 
tion of crops. Now that it has been learned 
that the bird is more useful than injurious, “no 
trespass” signs are everywhere in evidence. 
Under these conditions there is very little likeli¬ 
hood that the birds will be exterminated. In 
fact, it is reported that they are more numerous 
m spite of last year’s open season. 
The season of 1910 was an exceptionally good 
breeding season for birds and small game in 
most parts of the State. In localities where the 
breeding stock had not been exterminated there 
was a gratifying increase in the number of par¬ 
tridges. The number of sportsmen has in¬ 
creased so greatly, however, that, except in the 
most sparsely settled sections of the State the 
outlook for this noble game bird is most gloomy. 
The Adirondack elk appear to be steadily de- I 
creasing in numbers despite the fact that they 1 
seem to be well able to take care of themselves 
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