—Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 6, 1956
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Colorado Trades Wild Sheep for
Wild Montana Mountain Goats
Beneficial Game
Swaps
,0 information made available
through the U S. Fish and Wild
life Service tells .that:
“Not long ago Colorado traded
16 of its mountain sheep to Mon
tana for 8 mountain goats; South
Dakota sent surplus catfish to
Colorado for wild turkeys; New
Mexico sent 8 turkeys to South
Dakota and got 25- sage grouse
in return, and Wyoming deliver
ed some elk to New Mexico for
turkeys it needed.”
Pennsylvania also has parti
cipated in the exchange wildlife
program For the past three years
the Game Commission has trad
ed wild turkey eggs to New York
State for mallard ducklings de
sirable for use in the agency’s
waterfowl program Late in
February the Michigan Conser
vation Department exchanged 51
wild-trapped bobwhite quail for
some eggs of Pennsylvania’s re
nowned wild turkeys. The quail,
were delivered to the Eastern
Game Farm, in Montgomery
County, where they will serve
to improve the quality of Penn
sylvania’s breeding stock. The
'game authorities intend to re
lease future quail imports from
Michigan in northern counties
of the Commonwealth, It is hop
ed, these hardy birds will sur
vive and repopulate the coverts
there.
' The- duck and- quail trades
were not the only ones Pennsyl
vania has made, endeavoring to
improve the hunting sport in this
State. In 1954, wild turkey eggs
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were exchanged for wild-trapped
Hungarian partridges from the
Piovince of Ontario. The Prov
ince of Manitoba “traded”,us 50
sharptailed grouse in 1953 for
nothmg more than a letter of
appreciation.
It is probable that in future
other game exchanges will be
made, from which Pennsylvania
and other states, or Canadian
Provinces, will derive mutual
benefit.
Habit Influences
Rabbit
Lehigh County Game Protec
tor W A. Moyer recently took
a sportsman along while he lib
erated box-trapped rabbits. This
man questioned whether rabbits
taken from urban communities
woul9 adjust to life in the open.
When Moyer liberated a town
caught cottontail toward some
brush the perverse animal made
a quick turn, followed a road,
and hopped up twelve steps to
the door of a country store. Im
mediately the Doubting Thomas
shouted, “There, you see city
rabbits!”
Crop-Destroying
Deer Killed
Last year 1,465 deer were re
ported killed in Pennsylvania in
protection to property. The Game
Law justly provides that “any
erson actually residing upon and
cultivating as a means of liveli
hood any lands for general farm
, crop purposes, commercial truck-
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OBSERVED PRECIPITATION
(APPROXIMATE)
MARCH 1956
This chhrt shows the general nature of and heavy, and the precipitation amounts
the total precipitation which fell during which determine these classes are obtain
the preceding 30 days. Precipitation is ex- ed from analysis of many years of record
pressed in three classes: light, moderate, at many stations. v
mg or fruit orchard or nursery
being regularly maintained for
commercial purposes, as either
the owner or lessee of such lands,
or a member of his family resid
ing upon and regularly assisting
in the cultivation thereof, or re
gularly hired help . . may
kill deer engaged in the material
destruction of such crops.
The law limits the type of fire
arm to be used, stipulates a re
port must be made to a Com
mission representative after the
animal is killed and the carcass
properly dressed out and cared
for. It also lists other require
ments before qualified persons
may do such protective killing.
In 1955 Clearfield County list
ed the highest number of deer
reported killed to protect crops
130. Centre County was next
with 126. Potter followed with
115, and Jefferson was fourth
with 114. Elk and Lycoming
Counties each listed 97 deer so
killed. Sullivan County showed
93, Forest 76 and Tioga 71. Of
the 67 counties in the State, 45
were counted in this category.
Those not named above showed
from one, or a few, to 40 or 50
deer killed to protect crops last
year.
Combine the 1,465 deer report
ed so taken with the 7,306 ac
cidentally killed in Pennsylvania
in 1955, plus those killed illegal
ly in season and out, and it be
comes apparent that persons who
hunt lawfully do not bag nearly
all the white-tails slain m the
Commonwealth in any year.
Year after year this medium
size state provides a great
amount of successful hunting
and a vast store of venison for
sportsmen who hunt deer within
her borders. This despite the
thousands of these animals re
moved through accidents for crop
damage or by Game Law viola
tors.
Fox Taunts
Dog
A sportsman in Edinboro, Pa.
fed pheasants in his back yard
last winter. One evening, about
the time he "noticed the birds
no longer came to hjgujfeeder,
he investigated to learn what
was causing his dog to bark. Sit
ting on the lower Ingbs of an
apple tree, just out of reach of
the dog, was a fox.
Erie County Game “Protector
Elmer Simpson picks*,*- up the
story there and says: “Before the
man could obtain a gun the fox
evaded the dog and ran under an
unoccupied house nearby. This
sportsman spends a time
hunting foxes, but lie' hardly
expected to find one in town,
and in his own back yard.”
Skunk Plays
Space Cadet
Game Protector B. A. Brasher
thought there was something
wrong about the appearance of
a skunk that crossed the foad
Precipitation Past 30 Days
Military Will
Continue Buying
Boneless Beef
WASHINGTON (USDA)
The U S. Department of Agri
culture'today received assurance
from the Defense Department
that the military would continue
to March 31 its present program
for accelerated purchases of
boneless beef from heavy cattle
now going to market.
This program is being continu
ed by the Defense Department at
the request of the Department
of Agriculture. It began m De
cember 1955. The Defense De
partment is purchasing Choice
grades of meat.
The continuation of the pro
gram for accelerated purchase of
beef of the type involved should
be beneficial to the cattle mark
ket during the current period of
relatively heavy marketings of
the better grades of cattle. These
marketings have resulted from
the large number of cattle that
have been on feed.
of retired executives.
Experience, Inc., pools skills
ahead of his auto, in Schuylkill
County. He reports: “Stopping to
investigate my companions and
I found the animal had gotten
its head caught fast in a glass
baby food jar. The ‘space hel
met’ allowed the polecat to see
where it was going, but it ob
viously would prevent eating." A
well-aimed stone thrown from
a safe distance broke the jar
and freed the little stinker.”
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“During the month of January
a total of 111 were killed in the
Northeast Division”, says Wil
liam A. Hodge, Wildlife Protec
tion Assistant. He lists the causes
of the deaths as follows: “83
deer killed on highways 30
males and 53 females; killed by
trains, three all females; by
dogs, 12 five males and seven
females; for crop damage, seven
three males and four females;
and accidential kills, six one
male and five females.”
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