White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-09-06
CHIAks PLENTIFUL

That the state game department.
is determined to make Washington
the best state in the union for upland
bird shooting is manifest in the state
nent " Cnar,es K. Maybury, dir.
ector of the department of fisheries
and game, to the effect that, up to
and including August 2e, a total Of
10,731 Chinese pheasants had been
turned over to the various counties
throughout the state for liberation in
che fields and covers.
West Of the Cascades, so Maybury
states, Skagit and Snohomish coun-
ties, recognized along with Whatcom
county as the "Yakimas of the West
drew the largest assignments OF any
OF the counties, the former getting
300 birds, the latter $50. Whatcom
and Pierce each drew 700, Cowlitz,
600; Pacific, 500; Thurston, 500;
and Kitsap, 325.
On the east side of the mountains
Kittitas county, second only to Yaki-
ma as the best upland bird county in
the state, was allotted $50 birds.
Chelan ranked next with $50, while
Whitman and Yakima each received
600. Walla Walla was given 4S6;
Adams $50; Franklin, 80; Benton
and Columbia, 800 each; Garfield and
Spokane, $50 each; Douglas, 100;
Klickitat, ESQ; Lincoln and Okanog-
an, 100 each; Stevens, rs; and Fer
ry, IS. s'
Total production at the Steilacoom
and Walla Walla farms this year will
approximate 10000 birds, Maybury
declared, Steilacoom leading with be-
tween 1900 and 10000. A number
of counties have not received their
full allotments as yet, and few others
just small percentage of their
total. The birds are being shipped,
though, as rapidly as conditions war
ant, or as the counties can handle
them.
A survey of conditions throughout
the state indicates to the game offic-
ials that the fields and covers con-
tain more game birds this year than
ever before.
Native pheasants and blue grouse,
species that do not admit of artificial
propagation, are holding their own
and, in some of the wooded counties,
showing slight increase.
In the areas peculiar to their hab-
it's the Hungarian partridge show a
gratifying increase. Most of the
quail counties report substantial in
creases in that species of bird. Be
cause of the unprecedented number
in San Juan and Island counties the
game commissions this year raised
the bag limit to 10 birds per day.
Everywhere the Chinese pheasant
Ilor "Chink", as it is known to the
hunters the country over, has multi
piled to an extent surprising even to
the game officials. 1t will not be
difficult for hunters to secure full
bags, even in wooded counties where
the bird is more or less of stranger
"The wonderful increase noted in
the introduced species Of birds is
due largely to our careful and
thorough system of stocking fields
and covers Director Maybury de-
clared. II,
1.-THE Chinese pheasant is remark
ably prolific game. bird and highly
adapted to the climate of this state
particularly in the grain and orchard
districts. It is to be found in prac
tically every section, being les'
plentiful, of course, in the heavily
wooded areas in counties like C1al
lam, Jefferson, Mason, Ferry ane
number of others.
II do not question, Maybury con
Guided, "but what the 'Chinaman' is
the king Of our upland game birds
Unquesticnably, it is one Of the mos
beautiful of the feattered tribe.
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