Milford chronicle., 1938-10-14
GOOD HUNTING
YEAR FORESEEN
Continued from First Pags)
1000 Farms Stocked

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Two thousand farms, or one-fft
of all farms, were stocked under
new plan of cooperation betwee
farmers and the board, Mr.. Foste
said.
In keeping with the plan farmer
making applications gave their acre
ages, amount of cover and kind O
crops and preferences for the gam
wanted.
Farmers can restrict hunting Il
certain areas to prevent shootin,
near building or pastured STOCK. cal
help insure the carrying of gam,
through the winter, and can limi
the number of hunters in an ares
at a given time as a safety factor
and with other farmers can restrict
the pot hunter" and game hog,
Mr.. Foster said.
Farmer Made Custodian
The plan, he added, makes farm
ers the custodians of wildlife, offer
ing them profits from game, and ad-
ditional revenue through board and
lodging for hunters.
AT least one specie Of game in
which a farmer is interested has
been released on his farm, and with
his interest in this specie he is
likely to conserve it.
Leakage of this game released
assists in stocking adjoining farms,
so that they are benefited as well,
and with future applications for
game from other farmers, rotating
the stocking program, in few years
all farms desiring game will receive
a supply"
% Refugees In State
Mr.. Foster said there are now %
game management refugees in Della |
ware, with total of 5,47S acres, and |
''the same plan of furnishing seed
and fertilizer for food strips is be-
ing followed this year."
Through the Pittman-Robertson !
Act, he continued, providing for sci
entific studies and permanent pro-
jects to restore and increase nation
al wildlife resources, Delaware will
receive S1,0SS.9S the first year, with
the State furnishing S362.9S.
The report declared proper laws
and regulations for the control of
wildlife should be based on scien-
tific facts and observations. No
drastic laws or regulations are con-
templated at the present time"
1t urged sportsmen to cooperate in
seeting that game is not taken dur
ing the closed season, and that the
bag limit is not exceeded.
Revenues For Year $5S,332
Revenues for the fiscal year were
$5S,332.15, compared with $5S,837.84
in 1867, with a balance on hand
at the beginning of the 1898 year
of $12,2S179.
Expenditures tOtaled $6S,S45.75,
compared with $54,431.41. The bal
ance left on hand last July was
$1,718.19.
The report said that mot only was
the Is per cent expenditure for game
made as required by law, but ALSO
the deficiency of $5,104.87 from last
year was made up, and the total ex-
penditures, due to being based on ,,
estimated receipts, over-ran the 1
amount by the sum of $9S5.13."
45,322 Licenses Sold 7
Licenses sold totaled 1922, major
among them 26,O63 dog licenses, and t
1891 for resident hunting and trap I
ping. fNG
Construction has been completed
of entertainments for five fish nurs- l
cry ponds just south of Dover, but
they must be allowed to settle and
vegetation must grow to control ero- y
sion before the ponds can be stock
ed, it added.
To Improve Fishing Pond il
The report described the fishing
pond for children at the zoo in t
Park, and said lit is ex- c
pected that before next year, with
The cooperation of the Wilmington \
Park Board, this pond will be i'm p
proved to provide better fishing" :
while there is hope of similar plan
at the pond near Price Run pool. n
The cost of inspection of fishing +
party boats was $1,440 this year, and v
there was little delay to boat own
Frs in making these inspections, '
when consideration is Ii
given to the scattered locations of
,oats before being put into opera o
ion." a
Uniform Laws Expected -,
Recommendation are expected for u
lction at the next session of the :,
legislature for uniform fishing laws n,
'etween New Jersey and Delaware, ri
he report continued, after commits ii
ions were appointed by both states.
In this connection the report says: OF
Arrangements could not be made O.
With the U. s. Coast Guard for the
se of one of their patrol boats this 50
ear in order to check on illegal ne
shing in Delaware waters. There
pre-, a private boat was chartered ~
Dr. the summer months to do this Ni
'ork. G,
"The enforcement of fishing party Tr
oat laws in Delaware Bay caused
protest from fishermen from New
ersey and some from Delaware. -
fter several conferences between ,
fiicals from New Jersey and this
tate, joint commission was sug-. 1
ested, with members appointed by
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