33d 
Rach deputy is required to be constantly on the move, reporting 
each day the nature of work done. The one great object of this 
department is to conserve the supply of fish of the streams, and the 
birds and game of the fields and forests. The results of our work are 
not so much measured by the number of arrests and convictions made 
as it is the object obtained. 
Most people desire to obey the law, when they know what the 
law is, therefore it is the first duty of deputy game and fish wardens 
to take particular pains to educate the people with whom they come 
in contact in the provisions of this law, and to impress upon their 
minds the great importance of conserving the supply of game and fish. 
This kind of an educational campaign has been carried on in the 
Fourth District the past two years, and it has proven to be the right 
kind of a campaign. While the deputies are kind, considerate and 
courteous to all, yet those who violate the law have been made to feel 
the strong arm of the State, as the following report shows: 
No. of Fines No. of Fines 
Month. arrests. collected. Month. - arrests. collected. 
1914. 1915. 
BEEMAN Cetin, «vis aves 6 514000) VaMUary i) fs sok se 6 $20 00 
PUPS ee sk ckschete 12 140500 Februaryoue ss. ess 1 15 00 
September ....... 4 TSOPOOT MeMareh hol eos WN is RA Ala ci 
MOR VOWED Oo. g 4 'ci's,'eha esd iat SSPOOMONAOPT A eka Lao ew oats d 1 7 95 
November ........ 20 OGr UO aio Witimeca ety eeu eee 5 32 50 
PICCOIMVO GY sos os 5 8 ASA ira a IE IL Ca Fearn sists alec gihle 4 35 00 
Wai WE fn Ge 79 $604 45 
CONDITIONS AND KINDS OF GAME, BIRDS AND FISH 
FOUND. 
Livingston County, Deputy Whalen reporting: . Few Big 
chicken are found: northwest of Pontiac with number decreasing; in 
the same territory quails are to be found in increasing numbers. Few 
pheasants, rabbits and squirrels are found in all parts of the county, 
with small increase. The principal river in which fish are found is 
the Vermilion River. In this stream black bass, crappie, pickerel, 
sunfish, catfish, carp and buffalo are found. On account of pollution 
of the waters of this stream from sewerage and refuse matter from 
gas works and factories, the stock of fish is decreasing. (This is a 
State fish preserve. ) 
McLean County, Deputy Flanagan reporting: Pheasants are 
found in the vicinity of Barnes, Merna and Funk’s Grove in increasing 
numbers. No prairie chickens are found in this county. Quails are 
found in increasing numbers in all parts of the county. There are few 
shore birds, in season, in decreasing numbers. Squirrels are found in all 
timbered places in increasing numbers. Rabbits aré found in all parts 
of the county in about the same numbers as last year. Song birds are 
increasing everywhere on account of the sentiment among people that 
it is a crime to destroy the birds and their nests. 
Fish: Streams and lakes in which fish are found are Macinaw, 
Kickapoo, Miller Park Lake, Heafer’s Pond, McGregor’s Pond at 
Heyworth, and Aldrich’s Pond at McLean. Channel cat, bullhead 
cat, crappie, sunfish, ring perch and black bass are found in decreasing 
