Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-15
MEXICAN QUAIL
WILL BE BOUGHT
State Game Commission Is
Hopeful of Securing Sup
ply From the Republic

The State Game Commission Is
going to make another effort to OBJ
tain quail for stocking Pennsylvania
counties next year. Notwithstanding
the disappointments attending the
shipment of several thousand prom
ised from Mexican highlands and
arranged for here this spring, corre-
spondence has been undertaken with
men who claim that they will avoid
revolutions and comply with federal
government requirements and deliver
| the birds to Pennsylvania when
weather and food conditions are
| right The commission at it's meet
ing here a few days ago found
marked desire on the part of many
sportsmen to have the state stocked
with quail on an extensive scale not
| only to furnish sport, but to replenish
| the losses caused by last winter.
Promises to enlist interest of farm
| ers in feeding of quail because of
their great value as bug destroyers
have also been received here.
The commission has already con-
I tracted for thousands of rinSnecked
pheasants to be delivered next year
and has liberated many and distrib-
uted hundreds of dozens of eggs to
sportsmen this year. 1t is planned to
! buy some deer next winter. Other
game will be purchased and an eff
fort to propagate grouse will be un-
dertaken.
! Approval of the first three auXil-
| iary game preserves and the order
| for opening of the new Forest coun-
| ty state game preserve, to be known
as No. "a. are expected to stimulate
| interest in game propagation. The
| three auxiliaries will be wired in
| Clarion. Luzerne and Bucks coun-
! ties. Clarion has the honor of being
! first and it is believed that these aux
| iliaries will be followed by others
| from western counties where the
state does not own forest land, but
where sportsmen are eager for pre-
serves and hope to get around the
oil and gas lease situation and OBJ
| tain use of cover for game. Al
ready several inquiries have come
as to what steps should be taken to
! list auXiliares.
Action of the states game author
! tiles in closing the state except for
| a few counties in the extreme south
eastern section to the hunting of the
ruffed grouse for year seems to
| have met with favor in many sec
tions judging from word coming
I
heard of, but in the main the step,
the most extensive of the kind taken
without legislative enactment, is
supported. Lehigh and Montour
counties. two of the six which had
not filed petitions have sent word
that they will file in a short time
and York and Adams will probably
follow suit.
The general desire to protect the
quail resulted in closing for another
years time of a number of the west
ern counties, which had been closed
by the commission. Allegheny coun-
ty, for instance. was closed for two
years because of requests to further
conserve its quail, deer and phea-
SAINTS. Washington, Westmoreland,
Butler and Lawrence were closed
for one year on quail and pheasants
and some stocking will be done.
Several eastern counties were also
closed. About half of the counties
which had been closed under action
taken a few years ago on petitions
for conservation of various game.
have been closed for a year. The
western county sportsmen have been
moving more Systematically than
the east to protect the quail.
Reports to the game commission
indicate great activity of the game
protectors in enforcing fish laws
and the statutes against aliens hav-
ing firearms. The protectors have
made over 600 arrests for violations
of fish laws in conjunction with the
fish wardens, while they have taken
scores of guns and reported to state
police or food administrators hoard
ers of explosives, food and provi-
sion. This is a little known branch
of useful activity of the game Off
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