The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-24
NEW ORNTTHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENT STATION
 FOR CONNECTICUT
Established at Darien Under State Ornithologist and George
 ID. Ti1ley.

The State Ornithologist, Herbert K Job, of West Haven, has made ar. engagements with George D. Tilley, o1 Darien, owner of the well-krown av- iary and game and wild fowl batch cry, one of the best equipped and most expensive private plants of its kind in this country, whereby this valuable property will be put to use for the public good. It is to be known as The Connecticut Ornitho- of The Storrs Agricultural Experi- ment Station, under The Connecticut Agricultural College.
 Here will be. tried out all sorts of experiment relative to the value of wild birds to mankind. Among value of birds to agriculture, fruit and foliage, methods of the increase of useful birds, and the methods of the artificial propagation of game birds and wildfowl as new indus try and asset to the State, includ- owner in propagating their own game and on a large scale restocking the depleted covers of the State. This would be done both through person tute lectures and publications. The latter would consist of syndicated press letters by the State Ornitholo- gist and by illustrated bulletins pub lisHed by the Statet through The Storrs Experiment Station. MT. Tilley, who will be Assistant to the State Or nithologist, is one of the leading ex- perts on game propagation in this country, who has visited the princi- pal game preserves of Europe and learned their successful systems.
 In Europe the propagation of game able industry and a successful mode of stocking the country with wild game. In this country is beginning a great awakening on this subject. Tn the West and elsewhere wild ducks are being raised by thousands, preserves. Pheasant raising is very profitable, and there is demand for them, undressed, at $3 per pair. Va rious native game birds are being ex- perimented with, and there is spe, cial demand for quail. Prof. c. F. Hodge first practically solved the problem of rearing them in captivity, and recently various people have be- gun to do it with moderate but en- couraging success,-enough to show A large number of people in Con- necticut are eager to go into game propagation. and are writing to the State Ornithologtst. Various sports mems associations in the State are taking action to have these methods
 
 some of them of from one to two thousand acres, are being establish ed in various parts of the State, where game is to be both preserved and propagated. The volume of and demand for this movement is some thing astonishing.
 This new work, though requiring but a very small outlay, Is yet with out any appropriation whatever for its maintenance, but the State Agri- cultural College, realizing it's vaIue to the public and the demand for it, is having it started, in faith that the Legislature and the Game Commis- sion will assist. The latter has an annual income from the hunters li- censes of over $15,000, which, accord ing to law, must be used only for the increase of game. Most of this amount has hitherto been spent for the purchase and liberation of Hun garian cartridges, and it is reason able that some should be used now for the propagation of our native game. The following organizations have already passed resolutions de- manding this. The Bridgeport Fish