The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-09-27
Waterfowl and Woods Game.

| prohibiting the killing or DunaIo at
any time in the state.
Waterfowl and Woods Game.
From the gunner's viewpoint the
waterfowl season was not satisfac-
tory last year, but from the stand
point of the game cOnservationists it
seems to have been very favorable.
On the Atlantic coast the number OF
canvasbacks and 1tdheads was great
er than usual in tho Long Island bays
and on the Massachusetts coast, but
much smaller than usual on the Sus-
quehanna flats and Currituck Sound,
where these species are Usually very
abundant Canvasbacks are report
ed as numerous and increasing on
Cayuga lake, central New York,
where they were very scarce a dozen
years ago.
introduced pheasants seem to have
| held their own in sections where
! they have been established, and in
some instances to have increased. In
! the region around Buffalo, N. Y,
| where shooting is permitted for a
short fall season and where 5000,
! it is estimated, were killed in 1908,
the stock does not seem to have been
diminished. In the Genisee valley
and in the region around Canandai-
qua pheasants have become quite
numerous. In Massachusetts the
/ birds seem to be holding their own,
/ and the same is true of Ohio.
In no place where they have been
liberated have Hungarian cartridges
/ yet become fully established, and in
! several regions where large sums
have been spent in the attempted &C
climatizatiOn of these birds they are
! reported to have disappeared
through climatic or other causes.
Other foreign game birds have prac-
tically all disappeared from the re-
gions where they have been liber-
ated
Indiana bought and distributed s.
/ GOO cartridges and New Jersey 1000
| cartridges and 1000 English ring
neck pheasants during the year; Mis-
souri, arranged for the purchase and
distribution of 1000 partridges; Cal
ifornia liberated 2,400 partridges in
80 counties; Iowa arranged for the
purchase of 5000 pairs of cartridges
to be liberated early in 1911; Idaho
completed the distribution of 1890
pheasants bought in 1909; Louis
lana in the fall of 1910 bought 120
pheasants for distribution through
out the state and liberation on the
state game preserve in Caldwell par
ish, and Colorado placed 20 pairs of
partridges in nine counties and be-
gan the distribution of 1000 pleas
ants.
Oklahoma and Iowa distributed
2O,O76 and 6,265 pheasants respect
lively to farmers for Matching and
later liberation of the resulting
broods. Iowa also arranged for the
purchase and distribution of adult
pheasants. South Dakota began an
experiment with 200 or 800 pairs of
pheasants and a few partridges, and
Vermont gave much consideration to
restoring the state with pheasants
wild turkeys and Hungarian part
ridges, the last being regarded less
faVorably. A few partridges were
turned out by private organizations
in New York, land 100 partridges
We're planted in Mississippi and Ten
nessee by an enthusiastic sports
man.
Results of Experiments.
1t is yet too early to determine
the outcome of most of these expe-
rlmental measures, though negative
results appear to have followed the
liberation of cartridges in New Jer-
sey, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Dur
ing the year, however, it has develop
ed that the planting of 1900 pleas
ants in Kansas three or four years
ago has been entirely barren of re-
suits, and that of nearly 10000 part
ridges liberated in Connecticut in
1908 and 1903 about ITO broods re-
NAMED in the fall of 1909. which
have since diminished and were prob
ably finally destroyed by the severe
weather Of December, 1910. In the
| case Of the Connecticut partridges
the fact that shooting was prohibited
Tor only one season largely accounts
Tor their disappearance.
In Indiana pheasants which have
been introduced for twelve or thir-
teen years have yielded only fair re-
suits, while through the last few
years introduction of Hungarian
cartridges there are according to re-
cent estimate, 10000 of these birds
on the $50 preserves created by con-
tracts with farmers. Pheasants have
increased in New Jersey as the re-
suit of three years planting. and
cartridges in Nebraska from 1914
pairs put out by the state in 1907
augmented by $1,000 worth liberated
! by ranchers early in 1909. Chinese
pheasants, introduced in Idaho in
1908 and 1909, have become estab-
lished wherever fed and otherwise
: cared for. Delaware shows only neg
, alive results from 100 pairs of part
ridges distributed in 1909