Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-30
LIVE FISH AND GAME
SHOWN At STATE FAIR
Unusual Display Of Virginia Wild
Animal and Fowl Life Ar
ranged by Parsons.
AQUARIUM AN ADDED FEATURE
Glass Walled Tank Will Enable Wis
itors to Sec All Varieties Of State
Fish-Birds and Game in Natural
Surroundings.

An innovation which is in excellent
keeping with tho progressive spirit
shown by the State Game and Fisheries
Department will be mad this year.
when a exhibit of live game.
birds and fish will be presented az
the State Fair. which opens October
s. to continue through October l3.
The display undoubtedly will be one
of the most instructive and interest
ing OF any oil the grounds. and will
be ono which will prove attractive to
every visitor. Not only will sportsmen
find there the best samples OF the game
so eagerly sought aield and astream.
but school-children will be able to see
the birds and animals of the state
almost in natural surroundings: while
the beauty of the display will hold
charm for all women patrons. and the
novelty of seeing living examples OF
Virginia's bird life and animal life f,ut-
tering about large cages or proudly
,strutting in pine-tags and underbrush
should prove most attractive. even to
those who ordinarily pay but small
attention to such things.
Reservations have been made for
four large spaces within the industrial
building and for additional space just
outside the building. The exhibit will
occupy a space eighty by twenty feet
in the left-hand corner OF the build
Ing, when entered from the end near
est the race course. That secured for
the open-air display will be located
just without the opposite end OF the
building and will stretch across the
end from the door to the corner.
COMMISSIONER PARSONS
PLANS UNIQUE DISPLAY
Representatives Of John S. Parsons.
State Fisheries Commissioner and head
Of the State Department OF Game and
Inland Fisheries, already have visited
tho locations and planned the displays.
The exhibit will be decorated with the
State colors-navy blue and white
and a large number of framed pictures.
showing Virginia bird and animal life,
will be hung on the walls. In addi-
tion. there will be a lumber OF charts
showing the need for conserving some
varieties of fowls and animals. while
still others will show conc!usively the
large quantities CT game with which
the State abounds.
Outside the building, pens and cages
are being constructed for the purpose
OF holding the live animals and birds
that are 10 be shown n their natural
surroundings. Each variety will have
a cage sufficiently large 70 afford th-
prisoners sufficient opportunity for ex-
ercise. Brush. grass and trees are be-
ing gathered for use within them. and
every effort is being mad TO have the
display resemble, as closely as posi-
BILE, the actual conditions under which
the birds or animals live.
While these portions OF the exhibit
will be Of unusual attractiveness be-
cause of their u%niqueness. and the
appeal they will make to the general
public, the display OF game fish within
the Industrial Building should, in the
opinion OF Commissioner Parsons and
his assistants. prove of even greater
interest and value TO fair visitors. A
large aquarium is being constructed in
the fisheries section of the exhibit, and
here will be found one or more ex-
amples Of practically every species of
game nsh inhabiting Virginia waters.
Large, heavy glass sides are being used
in the construction of the tank, and all
of those who visit the display will have
ample opportunities for seeing the FISH,
many OF them of great beauty.
UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY
FOR ALL FAIR VISITORS
1t is believed that the opportunity to
see the fish. birds and animals will be
not only welcomed by fair patrons but
VIII prove OF great educational value.
It is recognized that fair visitors will
not have a great abundance OF time on
their hands, and hat relatively few
Will have the time to listen to lee
turers or attend moving pictures re-
latinE to game life, and for that rea-
son neither OF these features will be
included. ~AFfowever representatives Of
the department. will be on hand 10 ex-
plain any OF the questions that visitors
are likely to ask.
Pheasants. such as have been dis
tributed throughout the State during
the last few weeks in large numbers,
probably will form one of the chief
sections OF the exhibit. The ring
necked. Chinese and other fancy va
rieties will he shown. Deer, turkeys.
Mallard duck, grous hares. and "A
number Of other wild fowl and ami