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Show PHEASANTS LIBERATED AT LAKEVIEW One hundred ring neck pheasants were liberated on the Bunnell farm nt Lake View this morning by the Provo Conservation association game plarj ing commit tee. These birds were furnished by the stale and were reared .at the Springville hatchery and game farm. They are a part of last year's hatch which totaled uearty 5000. "As a game bird the ring neck pheasant is second only to the ruffed grouse," says Mark Andersons Ander-sons president of the Conservation association. "The latter, however, cannot be propigated successfully Inartificial In-artificial means nnd is not able to thrive or multiply in cultivated agricultural ag-ricultural sections while the ring-! ring-! neck seems to thrive wherever reasonable reas-onable protection is given. ''Within a few years, no doubt all of Utah valley as well ns other valleys of the state will be so well stocked with pheasants that an open season will be possible. "It is hoped that everyone will eooperata in giving these fine game birds a chance to multiply. It is known that they do slight damage , at times to agricultural crops hut in sections where pheasants have been plentiful for years it is nearly the unanimous opinion that they do a thousand times more good than harm. They are fond of grasshoppers grass-hoppers and other insects as well as worms of all kinds. f'In the state of New York last, your farmers cooperated with the state conservajtiou department in the hatching and rearing of more than one hundred thousand pheas--ants. The farmers of Illinois hatched about (35,000 eggs in the same manner. "Recognizing the necessity of providing pro-viding refuges for these birds, some of the farmers in the Lake View and Vineyard district have expressed ex-pressed a willingness to have their farms designated ns game refuges on which no person will be allowed with a gun." |