REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 1 
STATE GAME FARM. 
The Honorable Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 
SIRS: 
During the past two years the work of the State Game Farm has 
been carried on at a very low expense. The lease under which the 
property has been held will terminate in the fall of this year. On 
account of this fact no attempt has been made to enlarge the work on 
the farm and nothing but temporary repairs on worn-out equipment 
have been made. 
There has been no effort to raise large numbers of birds for stocking 
purposes as the liberal plants that have been made in the past years 
have been deemed sufficient to establish the birds in all parts of the 
State adapted to them if they find conditions congenial. 
Some attempt has been made to induce private parties to take up the 
breeding of many of our species of game birds but on account of the | 
fact that poultry can be raised so much easier and the prices secured 
have been so satisfactory, there has been very little desire on the part 
of breeders to take up the new work. 
Breeding Stock. 
In 1917 the breeding stock of ring-necked pheasants was reduced to 
a little over two dozen. With the small number reared in that year it 
was possible to slightly increase the stock and to rear some 200 young 
birds in the spring of 1918. Less tlian a dozen golden and silver 
pheasants complete the breeding stock of pheasants held on the farm 
at the present time. 
A. flock of about 75 valley quail has been kept on the farm and a 
number of these birds have been sold to breeders. A few young birds 
were reared in 1917 but the breeding season was a total failure in 1918, 
the birds failing to lay. 
The stock of ducks has been greatly reduced and at the present time 
not more than 60 birds remain on the pond. No marked suecess was 
attained in breeding wild ducks. 
Perhaps the most interesting development on the farm has been the 
breeding of a pair of Canada geese during the spring of 1918. <A pair 
of these birds, which have been retained for several years past, nested 
in early April. From the five eggs but one young bird was hatched. 
This bird was successfully brought to maturity. 
