Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-31
AS TO THE GAME FARM.
Humboldt Republican,


The Marshall;own Times Republican
in a recent editorial took a decided
stand against a proposition 10 estab-
fish a game farm IN connection with
the state tuberculosis hospital. The
T.-R. believes a hennery would prove
a more valuable proposition, and sug-
gests that the 100000 paid for gun
licenses be used 10 stock the streams
and lakes OF Iowa with game fish. The
Marshalltown paper poo-hoos Iowa
ever again being a paradise for the
gunner declaring that wild game is
thing Of past and any attempt 10 re-
suscitate it must be doomed 10 dis
appointment
The publisher of this paper does not
know the advisability Of establishing a
game farm in connection with the
state hospital for tuberculosis. but he
does know that such farms are sue
cesses elsewhere, that the ring neck
pheasant has supplanted the prairie
chicken and quail in states where llu-
man habita1ion is too thick for the
former and the winters too severe for
the latter. and that game propagation
| in Iowa can be carried On successfully
if such attempts in other states can be
taken as criterions. The proposition
10 spend the products of the hunters
licenses for the benefit OF the fishermen
VIII meet with condemnation on every
! SIDE Let the fishermen raise their own
cash.
Several years ago the authorities In
Washington state took measures TO in
troduce the Monaghan or ring neck
pheasant into that state a law was
passed protecting them for five years
The birds were introduced and plant
ed" That is, broods We're taken tC
/ favorable localities, turned out anc
/ looked after until old enough TO care
for themselves. So we'll did they thrive
and SO fast did they multiply in The
succeeding years that farmers in sew
eral portions of the state presented pc
titions asking relief from the pleas
ants, claiming that they destroyed TIM
crops, tore down the shocks of small
grain, and were creating great damage
MEN from Humboldt have hunted thes
pheasants in Washington and British
Columbia, and declare that they wer
so plentiful and tame as to make thei
killing SAVIOR of slaughter. One hunte
who had roanled the prairies of Iowa il
the early days, declared that tn
prairie hen in her palmiest days il
Iowa never afforded more abundan
meat nor more easy slaughter than tn
ring neck pheasant.
The Monaghan pheasant is especial
adapted to Iowas climate and condi
tons. 1t will easily withstand Iowa
, coolest winter. being fully as hardy a
the prairie chicken. 1t is quick an
rapid flight when hunted, and soon be
comes as wary as the quail. The bird
, in the fall, are usually found in pair
They do not huddle on the snow lik
the quail, and never can be "potted
, In short, this pheasant is medium be
, tween the prairie chicken and quail
, size and combines the desirable quail
ties of each. It is the ideal game biz
for Iowa, and the 100000 turned in b
. the hunters licenses should be used I
, establish game farm or in some othe
. method propagate the state of low
, with game. Illinois is doing it. Othe
, states have done it. Why not Iowa
. But above all, the hunters of the stat
are entitled to the expenditure of the
: cash. Don't spend it for fish.