[{anting Season
Set To Open
[f Drought Finds
Pennsylvania sportsmen "were
promised this week that, des
lte the current hunting ban,
there will be plenty of hunting
opportunity this year.
H. I/. Buchanan, Franklin,
president of the
Game Corn'mission announced
j, e will contact the seven mem
bers of the Corn'mission just as
soon as conditions warrant a
review of opening and dosing
dates for the 1963-64 hunting
and trapping seasons.
the ban against
hunting must be continued un
tll sufficient rainfall reduces
the threat of fire in Pennsyl
vania fields and forests, we will
insecticide-
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still follow the Commission’s
long-standing policy of provid
ing maximu'm hunting oppor
tunity for Pennsylvania hun
ters,” Buchanan said, ‘‘This
means that just as soon as the
ban is lifted, we will officially
consider extending seasons
which have already been inter
rupted. It also means that if
the 1963 small garde hunting
season is delayed, we will con
sider setting additional shoot
ing <fays later to make up for
any time lost.”
Buchanan pointed out that,
from a game management
standpoint, hunting ‘seasons
can be held anytime after the
breeding and rearing season
has produced the annual sur
plus of game species. The ba
sic objective is regulating the
harvest is to permit hunters
to crop this surplus without
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reducing sufficient (breeding
stock for the following year.
For this reason, hunting sea
sons can be held anytime be
tween fall and spring.
Other Game Commission
spokesmen are' predicting good
to excellent hunting this year
on most small game species
regardless of-when the season
starts. They report the curren f
drought and forest fire situa
tion has not caused any wide
ypiead loss am’ong wildhte pop
ulations. Warm weather has ac
tually slowed down the fall mi
gnation of waterfowl, giving
Pennsylvania one of the high
est October concentrations of
ducks and geese in years Com
mission field officers also re
port above average fall popula
tions of pheasants, wild tur
keys, bobwhite quail, deer and
bear. Fall populations ot squu-
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Shotzberger's
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 2, 1963
'i , w
reis” rabbits, grouse and snow
shoe hares on a statewide ba
sis are generally repoited av
erage or slightly below avei
age.
Capon Club Is
Won By First
Year Member
A first year member in the
Lancaster County 4-H Capon
club took both top awards in
the roundup Wednesday at the
Hotel Brunswick.
Miss Annette Long, the fif
teen-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Melvin Long. Lititz
R 3, took both the pioject scoie
division and the exhibit phase
of the contest.
Miss Lon?, a innior at Man
heim Twp High School, topped
the compet.tion with two dres
sed white rock capons that av
eraged D 5 /2 pounds each. They
were purchased as started ca
pons from the Wilmrarth Poul
try Farms, Lmgsley, ‘Pa.
In the project hook pluse
she scored 9S 7 out of a possi
ble 100 points.
Members of the Lancaster
Kiwams club, sponsors of the
club purchased the chib mem
bers’ exhibits. Miss Long’s
birds brought 75 cents a pound.
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i' 1- ’ ■ * ' . ' i 5'
The ljulk of the 70 capons
shown by 28 club membeis sold
between 60 and 65 cents a,
pound.
Floyd Hicks, Extension Ser
vice Poultryman from the
Pennsylvania State Unncrsuy,
placed the exhibits as tollons:
1, Annette Long, Lituz R3j
2, Henry Heishey, Litit/. Ill;
3, Dennis Burkholder, Lilitis
R 3, 4, Shu ley Heishey, LUita
Rl, 5, Suzie Peiter, Manlieun
Rl, 6, Wilbur Hoslei, Manlieun
R 3, 7, J Kenneth Hess M.m
heun R 3, S, Linda DeLoug,
Quanyville Rl, 9, Elaine Stol
tztus, Ronka Rl, 10, John Fi
sher, Manlieun Rl
TOTAL SCORE
1, Annette Lons;, 3, Shu ley
Heishey, 3, Gary Poirer, Wash
ington Boro Rl, 4, Heni' Htt
shey, o, Linda Poitcr. Wash
mgton Boro HI, 6, Eluine Stol
tzfus, 7, Eugene Foue\. Mount
Joy Rl, S, Caiol Brubaker,
Lititz Rl. !), Suzie Panel 10,
Eugene Hosier, Manlioun R'l!
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Because they aie not too
winter-hardy, the sowing o£
winter oats is limited to south
eastern Pennsylvania, wains
Elmer Pifer, Penn State ex
tension agromomist The sow
ing dates are September 10 to
25.
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