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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Photograph by Dr. C. S. Apgar. A Pennsylvania Game Refuge Keeper looks over his territory as the wooded hills and cozy valleys don the white coat of winter. \ t ( INTRODUCTION This bulletin is pre))arecl largely from information collected over a period of years, and from suggestions submitted by Game Refuge Keepers and other field officers of the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners. It is hoped that through its publication Pennsyl- vania sportsmen and all other wild-life enthusiasts will have a better understanding of practical and inexpensive methods of feeding game in winter, as well as methods of improving the environment for game by ))lanting material which provides natural food and cover. The first recjuisite is food which creates body heat and enables birds to survive intense cold. Food also provides the strength necessary to assist game and birds to escape predatory enemies. It brings birds to the spring nesting season in a healthy and vigorous condition. Artificial feeding of game in winter is therefore extremely important. It is much better, however, to produce a supply of natural foods through the planting of shrubs, trees, grains, grasses, vines etc. A natural food su))ply is in the long run much cheaper and more effective. In these days of intensive development, clean farming practices, good roads, automobiles. nir)re leisure time, and an ever increasing number of hunters, game must have some attention during the entire year. We cannot let it shift for itself. This is particularly true with respect to f(Jod and cover, which in many sections is a serious problem. The farmer knows that to raise crops he must save some seed for planting the next year and that he must carefully care for the young plants that the seeds produce. In this way only can he hope to harvest crops each year. The forester or timberland man- ager knows that to harvest a crop of trees he must carefully protect the young shoots that spring up when the older trees are cut, that he must leave seed trees of certain species or he must supplement the natural growth which springs up. with seedlings artificially raised and transplanted. The same technique applies to game crops. It is certainly not possible to harvest the game crop each year and forget about the seed stock and the young produced by it until the time for the next harvest. It is obviously impossible for the Game Commission to adequately care for the crop. This means that all sportsmen must assist in raising their crop if they hope for a bountiful harvest. Boy Scouts, bird and nature lovers also have a particular interest in this connection and can render valuable

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