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Show OUTDOOR SPOKISUTAHfS - - Perpetual inventory of all fish and game properties of the state of Utah will be kept by all deputies depu-ties in charge of territories of the state fish and game department, it is announced by J. Arthur " Me-cham, Me-cham, commissioner. Installation of the system, created cre-ated for the purpose of giving a more accurate and rigid check on the properties of the state, has been accomplished by a bookkeeper who declares that the system, though inexpensive and free from red tape, will obtain results valuable, valu-able, in efficient department operation. oper-ation. The accounting system is similar simi-lar in many respects to the one used by the United States bureau of fisheries in their hatcheries, and has been installed in eight hatcheries of the state. The records now entail complete reports from the time the eggs are taken from the egg stations at Murray, Springville and Glenwood, where they are classified as to brood stock, state wild stock and imported eggs. From the egg stations sta-tions they are transferred to the various hatcheries, where after hatching, . they are placed in the rearing ponds, and finally planted in the streams and lakes of the state. The new system entails daily reports re-ports to the office on the movements move-ments of eggs to the hacheries, of all - fish transfers between the hatcheries and rearing ponds not located on hatchery sites and of the plantings of all fish. The game farm at Springville has a system which will also show the cost of pheasant production and enable the department to determine de-termine the most effective and economical means of . raising the game birds. |