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Show o O MountingSnovvXoId Prolongs Huge Deer Feeding Task Ow-r $10,000 raid For H;iy I'or Feeling of tU-A-.r; 275 Tons Consumed The State Fi.sh and Game Department De-partment has paid about $10,000 for hay alone in its state-wide dr-er feeding program, and this is a.sidi? from the hay which has been fed by individuals and individual f:Iubs either with or without the supervision of the game department, depart-ment, according to K. L. Turpin, state game director. Additional snowfall has created additional problems. Mr. Turpin said in coinenting on the state's current "save the deer" campaign, 5in the crisis which has hit the state's big game herds and game birds. "But we have managed to check a lot of the trouble with our many feeding grounds, plus the cooperation coopera-tion we have received from citizens citi-zens in all sections of the state," the game chief explained. In Springville, Heed Averett, president of the Wildlife Federation, Fed-eration, has asked the cooperation co-operation of all citizens in assisting as-sisting the deer feeding project by bringing their Christmas trees to the Averett-Kowland Barber Shop, from where volunteer vol-unteer organization workers will take them to the feeding places. "We are losing some deer," said Mr. Turpin. "Dogs are bad, but not like they were. The game animals have located the feeding grounds and have collected in these areas. Aid by the sportsmen in feeding, predator control, and the cooperation by residents in the highly-populated areas have all aided materially during the record-breaking record-breaking cold .snap and snowfall." The feeding campaign must continue, con-tinue, according to Mr. Turpin, who pointed out that the Carbon-Emery Carbon-Emery Wildlife Federation, under President Jack World, was shipping ship-ping 100 tons of hay to Salt Lake City. The federation is loading the hay without charge, the state having paid for the hay in Emery County. : The transportation is being furnished fur-nished by the Carbon Freight Lines and the freight office of the Rio Grande Motor Way. Hay will be unloaded in Salt Lake Valley by volunteer sportsmen, leaving the entire cost of the project at the cost of the hay alone, Mr. Turpin Tur-pin said. The hay is being loaded by a belt feeder supplied, without cost, by the Utah Poultry Producers Produc-ers Association. The deer feeding in Salt Lake valley has been under the direction of Arvon Johnson, who has been running 12 feeding stations. Volunteer Vol-unteer jeep posse workers have cared for five of the grounds; the state has handled the rest. Total consumption of hay alone has been about 275 tons this winter win-ter that already purchased by the state, and including the shipment from Carbon and Emery. Of this amount, 158 tons has been obtained ob-tained or used in Salt Lake county. coun-ty. All this is without mentioning the thousands of sportsmen in all sections of the state who have met the deer feeding problems on their own, and with the help of wardens. By "sportsmen" we mean everyone every-one farmers, businesmen, cattlemen, cattle-men, and1 all those who have given a hand in this emergency. "Now, all we need is a break in the weather," the director concluded, con-cluded, "and we can just go on working and hoping." |