Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-21
PUBLICITY WILL
BE EMPLOYED
Game Commission Proposes
to Get the Game Law Vio-
lators Before the People

Publicity is to be enlisted as an
aid to the State Game commission
IN enforcing the states game laws.
The imposition of fines has had
some effect, but at the last meet
ing of the commission it was de-
cided that it would not be q bad
idea to give full publicity to the
name and circumstances surround
ing every conviction. This will be
new departure in enforcement of
the game laws, but it is believed
that it will be effective, as not only
daily newspapers, but sportsmen's
magazines will be informed OF the
arrests and convictions.
The last year brought numerous
Violations of the state game laws,
notably in the killing of does and
young bucks, which are not legal.
The names of several hunters have
been secured and evidence is be-
ing hunted with the idea that they
Will be prosecuted. Their names
Will be given out when fines are
collected.
The state game wardens have got
ten on the trail of number Of
foreigners who have been disre-
garding the game laws by shooting
out of season and on false papers.
1t viii be expensive for them.
Aid of the auditor general to get
returns from some counties which
have failed to make returns of the
revenues from hunters licenses.
There are half q dozen whose treas
urers have not only failed to file
returns or to send in the cash, but
they will not even answer letters.
! The hunters license revenue this
year will be n handsome amount on
which to undertake the work this
spring and summer.
Blanks are being prepared for
sending TO counties where men are
urging the closing of counties to
grouse shooting so that the birds
may increase. The commission has
been endeavoring TO get a general
agreement on two-year period
which seems to be more or less
favored. DIR. Joseph Kalbfus, sec
retary of the commission, in speak
ing about the matter, said that the
two-year closed season on turkeys
of years ago worked very we'll and
that he believed that two years
would meet the requirem ents. 1t is
important to get in all of the coun-
ties, however, so that there will be
no raiding of grouse in any one
county where shooting might not be
forbidden through failure to petit
ton.
ANsllhluo says That pCOPlS are
commencing to realize that there is
community interest in game and
that there is little to the COM
plants of some people that hunt
ers who pay n license in a distant
county leave no revenue in the coun-
ty where they hunt. He says that
the hunting counties are well taken
care of in disbursement from the
hunters license fund and by state
n ~ in ~ Gil -
down to work it out.
1t is probable that this year some
deer will be released from private
preserves to help in stocking GER
tain districts. The state has ar
ranged to turn loose a number of
deer which have been optioned' in
other states and some privately
owned deer will be offered.
Steps to complete the negotiations
for state game preserves in Warren
and Forest counties will be taken
in about a month. Bucks and Dau-
phin are also to get reserves IL
leases can be arranged. The land
in each of these four counties is
well adapted.
The State Game Commission Off
GERS have been getting numerous
letters complaining about the scat
tering of poisoned corn where crows
will set it, Most of the writers do
not appear to know that the corn
will kill the crows and quail and
pheasants as well as wild turkeys
and chickens not be harmed. The
strychnine that it takes to kill a
crow is infinitesimal and it is get
ting in it's work. Seth e. Gordon,
assistant secretary of the game COM
mission, says that the average crow
killed by the poisoned corn had
seven grains in its stomach These
grains had less than one one-hun-
dredth of a grain of the drug which
would not even have amused a
chicken or quail.