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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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I i I INTRODUCTION This bulletin is prepared largely from information collected over a period of years, and from suggestions submitted by Game Refuge Keep- ers and other field officers of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. It is hoped that through its publication Pennsylvania sportsmen and all other wild-life enthusiasts will have a better understanding of practical and " inexpensive methods of feedmg game in winter, as well as methods of improving the environment for game by planting material which provides natural food and cover. The first requisite 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 supply is in the long run much cheaper and more effective. In these days of intensive development, clean farming practices, good roads, automobiles, more 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 food and cover, which in many sections is a serious problem. It is obviously impossible for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to carry on all of the improvement work necessary to adequately care for the game supply. This means that all sportsmen must assist in raising their game crop if a sufficient supply is to be produced. Boy Scouts, bird and nature lovers also have a particular interest in this connection and can render valuable assistance. Improvements in conditions for wild- life in most cases improves the environment for song and insectivorous birds. Everyone knows of their value to the orchardist and farmer as insect destroyers. If each one interested and concerned in this important problem helps just a little bit, it will go a long way toward helping Pennsylvania to retain its enviable pt)sition as a great game State. No attempt is made in this bulletin to discuss feeding of wild water- fowl, as this subject was fairly well covered in a mimeographed pamphlet prepared several years ago and which is available upon application. The title of that pamphlet is "Wild Waterfowl Foods and How to Grow Them." 20r>r,91 INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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