16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 18, 1956
Report Given on Game Birds
Released In State Recently
COMMONWEALTH OF PA.
HARRISBURG
Weekly Newsletter Issued
by the Pennsylvania Game Com
mission
Game Birds
Released
The Game Comnussion’s Pro
pagation Division leports on
game birds the agency released
in Pennsylvania this spring.
Ring-necked pheasants, ap
proximately 52,000 The sex ratio
was about 50-50. Breeder pheas
ants at State Game Farms, to be
released about the first of June,
will number over 17,500. The
proportion of hens to cocks m
this case will be 10 to 1.
Bobwhite quail liberated to
taled almost 6,000. These “farm
ers’ friends” were about evenly'
half males and half females.
Wild turkeys released, in ra
tios of one tom to five hens,
numbered approximately 2,900.
All of the pheasants, quail
and turkeys were adult birds.
In every case they were given
their freedom in aieas suitable
for natural piopagation.
Wild Creatures
Meet Unusual Death
Game and fur animals some
times meet their end under un
usual circumstances in the wild.
Many die each year from causes
other than gun or trap, auto or
predator. As pi oof, these two in
cidents reported by Game Pro
tector Vern A Van Order. |
Aboulrthe first of this month
two yearling beavers were found
dead along an oil-polluted
stream in Elk County A pipe
line break had sent a quantity
of crude oil down the stream
All aquatic animals such as
beavers, minks and muskrats aie
notoriously susceptible to wet
ting and chilling Even though
they are in and out of icy water
daily during the cold months
their dense fur keeps their skin
perfectly dry But m the case
of the two yearling beavers
mentioned the oil-covered water
caused the animals’ fur to be
come matted and soaked, fol
lowing which the animals were
no longer “waterproof”. Their
skin became wet, they chilled in
the cold an, and soon died of
pneumonia
In another erase the settling ba
sin of an Elk-County tannery
recently stopped the flight of
migratory waterfowl About a
dozen ducks sat down in one
basin, not one of them continued
its journey northward The
liquid in the basin destroyed the
waterproofing qualities of the
ducks’ feathers, making it im
possible for the birds to fly.'
Some of them died there; others
got as far as nearby weeds be
fore dying
Deer With A
Built-In Compass
Somewhere in Southwestern
Pennsylvania there is a doe deer
possessed of the instinct of a'
homing pigeon Game Protectors
discovered her unusual faculty,
plus strong persistence, while
live-trapping deer from the Rol
ling Rock Club property in West
moreland County.
White-tails there were so num
erous they destroyed much
valuable shrubbery around dwel
lings, as well as forest growth.
Also, they endangered the lives
and autos of motorists driving
highways in the locality. Spe
cially-huilt traps were used to
catch the deer on the club
grounds Later these animals
were ear-taged and removed to
areas open to public hunting
These were mostly on State
Game Lands located in West
moreland, Somerset, Indiana and
Fayette Counties.
One doe, ear tag number 83,
was taken m the same trap on
four separate occasions between
early January and the end of
March this year After being
caught the first time she was
turned loose near Dunbar, Fay
ette County, about 30 miles from
“home”. She returned in about
three weeks to be taken again-
She was then given her freedom
near Blairsville, Indiana County,
approximately 25 miles distant.
This time she swam the Cone
maugh River and crossed several
highways to return to the same
trap In ten days On the third
occasion “old 83” was liberated
in Fayette County again, this
time in the mountains near
Uniontown, some 35 miles away.
No longer surprised, the wild
life men found her back in the
familiar trap before long for
the fourth time near the end
of the catch-and-deport period.
Amused and a bit confused, be
cause deer rarely range more
than a mile or two, the officers
released “83” about 60 miles dis
tant, at the Indiana-Clearfield
County line
Proof that the heroine of this
story is unusual lies in the fact
that a few other deer, trapped
and released in the same pro
gram in 1956 and identified by
ear tags, were later killed on
highways near their liberation
points With the exception of
one' deer, the travel trend of
these animals was in the direc
tion away from the trap loca
tion. None of them were trapped
again
“Juice” Undresses Squirrel,
Causes Fire
A Carbon County Deputy
Game Protector named Paul
Ipntzel, a lineman for the Penn
sylvania Power and Light Com
pany, says that on April 29th
he traced down a power failure
in Weissport At the trouble
spot Kmtzel climbed a power
pole Lying on a cross-arm of
the pole lay a large, dead gray
squirrel minus all its clothing.
Undoubtedly, the squirrel had
come in contact, with a live wire
while touching a cross-arru
brace The short circuit resulting
caused the cedar pole to catch
fire, and quite a bit of damage
ensued
Dogs Chase Deer
Into Path Of Autos
Like other Game Protectors,
E W Cox, Somerset County, re
ceived numerous reports of dogs
chasing deer in recent weeks
He says, “In two cases, road kills
were caused by dogs chasing doe
deer onto the highway In each
case the female involved was
carrying twin fawns.”
Spring Vegetable
Crops More Higher
Washington Production of
spring vegetables is expected to
increase two per cent above last
year and 14 per cent above aver
age to an estimated 2.72 million
tons
Increases are indicated in cab
bage, cantaloupes, early spring
lettuce, onions and tomatoes.
JOYFUL JOYRIDER
RICHMOND, Va- Police are
looking for a joyful joyrider
who, on a ride an an early-Sun
day morning clipped off a hyd
rant in .front of Richmond’s
mam postoffice, causing a gusher
of water to spout 12 feet into
the air, knocked down two park
ing signs, bowled over a parking
meter and upset a trash contain
er. Damages were estimated at
$5OO.
Get-rich-quick schemes mul
tiply faster than the supply of
suckers.
Topping the recent “Meeting of the
Stars” National Guernsey sale in Lancas
ter was Bayville Maxprint Bubblemist that
brought $2,550. From left to right are; W.
Clark Fleming, Jr., manager of Bayville
TWO REASONS make Beacon Turkey Starter a better buy this year
than ever before. First, Beacon has an improved, greatly more efficient
formula to grow more weight on less feed. A new energy-protein-vitamin
relationship is multiplying feeding value and growth per pound of Beacon
Feed.
SECOND . . . You’ll be pleased to find this new formula costs several
dollars less per ton.
The first 8 weeks of the turkey’s life are
the most critical nutritionally. That is when
all favorable factors must be brought to bear
not only to help avoid stresses but to
build resistance to them. Feed Beacon Tur-
key Starter
essential nutrients
cient feeding value.
BEACON
THE BEACON MILLING COMPANY, INC., CAYUGA. N. Y. YORK. PA.
J. M. Bomberger
Farmers Supply Co.
137-39 E. KING ST., LANCASTER
Paul H. Gehman
DENVER
Fred L. & John E. Homsher
STRASBURG AND QUARRYVILLE
Tops Guernsey Sale
This Year * . .
Better Beacon
Turkey Starter
palatable and rich in all
balanced for effi-
ELM
Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc.
Farms, Norfolk, Va., consignor; John D.
Worthington 111, runner-up in bidding;
Bill Chilcoat, manager, Deep Lake Farm,
Lakeville, Conn., buyer, with John -West,
herdsman at Bayville Farms at halter.
THE BAG WITH THE STABS
O. Kenneth McCracken
Millport Roller Mills
Earl Sander
NEW HOLLAND
Osceola Flour Mills
RHEEMS
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MANHEIM
LITITZ
GORDONVILLE