Show I Fish and Same Game News By VEE REYNOLDS Two hundred partridges es from f rom the states state's Price game ame bird f farm arm were recently released in Washington County They went into nto i a selected area as a supPlement supplement supple supPle- ment to the original plant of these birds made there a year ago This is the first release for 1953 from the 1400 adult birds raised at the farm last year and held through h the winter for planting as brood stock this spring Releases in numbers will be made soon into the 13 carefully chosen areas over the state that have been stocked during the past two years Most of the 1400 adult will be stocked into these previously planted 13 areas as supplemental supplemental sup sup- uP- uP brood stock to the birds already there Field surveys show a good survival survival sur surf vival of at all the sites where the birds have been stocked Several broods of young birds were noted in the Ule areas of the original plants made nearly two years ago The supplemental mental plants of adult birds are believed to be bethe bethe bethe the best means of rapidly building up the populations population at a given site Of the 2600 carried earned through the winter at the farm 1200 will be kept there through h the spring ng months as brood stock The eggs from these birds will willbe willbe willbe be hatched and the young birds raised in a continuation of the present program to raise and release release re- re lease these fine game ame birds i mb into to many other selected areas over the state More l than i one-fifth one of Utah's citizens i are reached each year through the Fish and Game Departments Department's De De- educational program Il It comes free to all schools wildlife clubs civic organizations ana aria oth ers Lee Kay supervisor of education and public relations fathered such sucha a program more than 20 years ago He instituted the first such program of its kind in America Mr Kay is is continuing the work with the able assurance or LaVar Ware Yare as the demands of these lec- lec ures ure grow fow greater each year yean |