The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-18
GAME BIRD PROGRAM
OF STATE EXPANDED
Commissioner Maurek to Spend
$4,000 on Partridges
and Pheasants

A bird stocking program involving
IN outlay of $40 900 has been de-
yeloped by Burnie Maurek, state game
and fish commissioner. u OF the
rlan to import $500 Hungarian par
ridges. announced by the commits
sioner last week.
In addition to the cartridges. the
commissioner now proposes to plant
10000 ringnecked p~f1easants also.
These will be trapped in the south
eastern part Of the state and dis
tributed in other sections.
The Hungarian cartridges are to
be imported from Czecho-Slovakia
next spring and will cost the depart
ment s10.75 a pair +. o. b. express
cars. New York, or a total of So, 062. so.
The trapping Of the p%heasants and
other expenses will add the other
$4,000 to this outlay of department
funds derived from hunting and fish
ing licenses.
Asks Cooperation
The commissioner decided on this
expansion as a result of contemplate
ing the decreasing supply of wild wa
ter fowl and upland birds. He feels
that stocking with cartridges anc
pheasants will. In a way, offset the
decrease in wild ducks, prairie hens
and grouse.
Embarkation on this program will
be undertaken with every attention tt
details that might result in waste IL
the expenditure. Individual sports
men and their organizations through
out the state are to be asked to CO
operate in protecting the birds whel
they have been planted.
Past experience, especially Will
pheasants, has indicated that durin|
the months of December and Januar
IT. is necessary to provide feed an
shelter for the birds if they are to b
spared from the rigors of snow an
winter cold and the mortality KEEP
down, Maurek said.
The department will recommen
that in localities where the birds ar
liberated, large wire pens be cor
structed and the birds kept in thel
and fed until March, when they ca
be turned out with probable sma
loss. The feeding and watering
the birds in these pens is similar
handling of barnyard fowl. 1t al!
has been found that when the birt
are liberated in the vicinity of barr
Yards they will mingle with the far
poultry and feed with these until
comes time to make nests and re;
broods.
Pheasants Are Prolific =
200 oxv ,o,,oJ;T;o o~-a 49,,
lay from 40 to 60 eggs in a seaso
from which they will raise from tx
to three flocks. Any sportsman
sportsmen's organization desiring al
of the birds % be stocked, shou
make application to the game depa1
ment here. setting forth the desert
ton of the LEGALITY in which it
proposed to plant the birds. staff
whether there is plenty II natul
cover. such as trees, brush, Wild
slough grass. and whether there is
permanent supply of water, alo
with ether inducements the local
may have to offer for the favoral
protection. feeding and propagate
Of the fowl.
Express charges on the Hunsari
cartridges will have to be paid frt
ST Paul by the local sportsmen a
on the pteasants from the loca! 20.
where they may be trapped.
The department expects farm
will be interested from the fact tt
both type of birds have been fou
TO be beneficial to agriculture. in
ducing tho insect pests which are
structive to crops and plants.