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Show WEATHER HOLDS FATE OF 1945 PHEASANT HUNTING Only unseasonable weather will act as a curb to this fall's pheasant pheas-ant season, Director Ross Leonard said this week. "Our breeding farms are coming com-ing along nicely, but the late snows and now the rains are hurting hurt-ing our natural brood stock." The native pheasants already are nesting, nest-ing, and the rains and snows . . . with their dampness will hurt our "natural" reproduction, unless the weather breaks soon. At the game farm at SpringviUe, Spring-viUe, the pheasants are nesting and indications point to a bumper crop of birds. Eggs are hatched at SpringviUe and then the birds, only a few days old, are sent to rearing projects throughout the state for rearing. The Carbon-Emery Fish and game association, working through the state fish and game commission, commis-sion, has practically completed the new rearing project between Helper Help-er and Price. The project, which is expected to have a capacity of 3000 birds when in full operation, opera-tion, is receiving- the finishing touches and hopes to receive young birds early in May. "Only the weatherman needs to cooperate now," Director Leonard said, "for this hunt to be one of the best in recent years." |