


The state game farms were understood to be in process of reor- 
ganization. None were visited, Pheasants costs at Yorkville are under- 
stood to run 1,50 per bird for feed and labor, 
The two public shooting grounds for waterfowl were not visited, 
put represent a move in the right direction. What management is practiced 
on them is not known, 
27, Bond Issue. It is understood that the $20,000,000 bond issue which 
failed of popular ratification last fall, provided for acquisition expendi- 
tures for uplands, lowlands, and miscellaneous in the ratio of 2, 1, and + 
respectively. This intrisically meritorious idea might meet with better 
napaiar support if its objectives were made more specific and its allo- 
cation of acreage to counties less so. As to ofjectives, the following 
technical findings of this report are pertinent to the formulation of an 
acquisition program by the state: 
(1) State forests, serving incidentally as refuges for turkey, 
deer, and ruffed grouse, are thoroughly practicable and 
badly needed, 
(2) Slough and swamp lands for pheasant and prairie chicken 
refuges are thoroughly practicable and badly needed, 
(3) Waterfowl areas, land and water, a part to be set aside as 
refuges, and a part to be set aside and managed as public 
shooting grounds, are thoroughly practicable and badly needed. 
(4) Publicly owned quail refuges, and publicly owned shooting 
grounds for quail, are of doubtful practicability because of 
the short cruising radius of the species (and hence the low 
redius of drift from the refuge), and the low per acre popu 
lations as compared with per acre Land: costs. 
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