Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
HUNTING TAGS
GO TO COUNTIES
State Commission Sends the
Papers For Issuance of the
Annual Licenses Now

All of the arm bands for the
hunters of Pennsylvania during the
season of 1918 have been sent by
the State Game Commission to 'he
county treasurers except several
thousand for Allegheny which have
been delayed, but will be sent out
next week. Allegheny county le-
ceives the highest number as II has
more licensed hunters than any
other county in the state. 1t Will
receive over $1,000 licenses out OF
the 315, 1000 to be issued. The bands
this year are pretty close to the hcri-
zon blue of the French army. They
were a salmon pink last year.
For several months justices OF The
peace and county officials have peen
writing here asking when the Incense
forms and supplies will be lssueI as
hunters were anxious to OBTAIN thelr
hands in advance of the season.
Reports coming here from various
sections of the state tell OF a good
Matching season, especially on pheas-
ants and quail, with some fair re-
PORT on grouse. With the whole
state closed to grouse except three
counties it is expected that there
will be much attention given to TINS
bird and that some belated hatch
ing enterprises may be under way
which will be heard of later. In any
event, there should be many grouse
reXt fall. Similarly the closing OF
the western half of the state, TO
great extent, to quail Will mean
many of these birds in a few years
Sportsmen have given much atten-
ton to protection of the quail in
this district and the call of Bob
White" has been heard in sections
where it was unknown for years.
More realization by farmers that
quail are valuable is reported, put
there are more hopes than anything
else in that direction. Reports or
abundance of game include not only
quail, ringneCks and wild turkeys.
but also ra abbits, which seem to be
numerous in spite of the big bags
taken last fall. The state game OF
ficers transferred rabbits from a
number of sections last year and
Dame Nature has been assisting the
state.
The blackbird season starts on
September l, the first of the seasons,
and will run until the end of NoveTn-
l.
birds, but they are flocking in i'm
mense numbers already and many
may be gone before September, ex
cept in northern counties.
Officers of the Wild Life League,
who have been in touch with COM
mission offices, report that num-
ber of applications for the establish
ment of additional auxiliary game
preserves will come in from Western
PENNSYLVANIA soon. The closing of
the 700-acre tract in Clarion county,
the first western auxiliary, Is about
completed and other Bucks and Lu-
zerne tracts will soon be wired. In
terest in the auxiliary reserves is
gaining and western sportsmen have
been agitating the movement to have
chain of such tracts created. If
the applications are received in zine
the reserves may be established this
fall, but there will have to be quick
action. Some offers of help in stock
ing have been received. The new
state game preserve in Forest cour-
" is now being marked off and Il is
the intention to stock 1t with deer
during the winter. The new state
preserves in Huntingdon and Union
counties are about complete and Will
not need any stocking, but the up
Per Dauphln state preserve VIII pe
stocked with quail, it being well
suited to small game. The Forest
preserve will be the extreme western
one until the proposed Warren state
preserve is established, which will be
during the winter. The lands for
this preserve have not all been Sc
cured. the main difficulty in such
matters in Western Pennsylvania be-
ing gas and oil leases. There are
now twenty-four of the state pre-
serves.