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Show rebruary 12, FISH TIIE JOURNAL 19., & GAME the owner believ.ed they were at or close to home. Dog owners are urged to know the habits of their animals. For some time there has been speculation among sportsmen as to why Idaho has been able to have a 12- - to 1 d season on pheasants while Utah has had only a 2Ve- - to season. To determine the reasons for this season length difference, the Wildlife Management Institute through the Utah Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit and in cooperation with the Utah and Idaho Fish and Game Departments, has initiated a study to determine whether the seasons as they now stand in the two states are beneficial or detrimental to the pheasant populations. That is, whether Idaho is their pheasants or whether Utah is theirs. Temple A. Reynolds, Jr., graduate student in the Department of Wildlife Management at the Utah State Agricultural College, has been assigned to this important investigation. Preliminary results indicate that d y the season on pheasants in Idaho this year did not the population of birds. This cannot, however, be taken as indicative that the five-da- y d Utah season the birds. Heavy population centers in Northern Utah possibly create greater hunter pressures in the Utah study area than in the Southern Idaho study area. Areas to study the effect of seasons length of pheasants have been selected in Cache County, Utah, and in Franklin County, Idaho, near the state line where geography, land use, and pheasant habitat appear to be very similar. This study was begun in the fall of llK)!, and will be continued ring-necke- o-d- ay ponds are nearing completion at the Department of Fish and Games Midway hatchery in Heber Valley. - They are situated at the lower end of the hatchery property, and acre each is approximately in size. All work is being done by construction personnel and equipment belonging to the department. An expected 2(X) loads of rainbow legals should come from these ponds each year following completion. This amounts to an additional 240, 00) such fish in the states yearly planting program. Finishing of the ponds is expected in time to stock them with rain-- i bow fingerling by early May. Fish reaching legal size will be sorted and planted during late summer and fall months. The balance will be carried over for early spring planting in 19oG, after which the waters will again be restocked with fingerling in a continuation of the I program. Each pond has a natural gravel bottom. They are so constructed that draining, seining, and sorting are readily accomplished. one-ha- lf , ; . : ; . s i ; ; j , I ' The Midway plant is largest of over-harvesti- ng under-harvesti- ng 10-da- over-harve- ring-necke- Page has been named general chairman of the 1i.m convention. Marlow C. Woodward of Preston and C. K. Convention lor Poultry Group Is Scheduled Given Citation Ferre and Grant Peterson cf Salt Members SALT LAKE CITY of the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative from all parts of Utah and southern Idaho will gather in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Feb. 2G for the 82nd annual convention and meeting of the organization, according to President II. Ray Pond of Richmond, who will preside at the sessions. Meetings will start at 9:80 a. m. and continue through the morning and afternoon. The convention will be climaxed with a banquet and program. All meetings will be held at the Hotel Utah. William II. Schorr of Midvale Lake City are the other members of the convention committees. New officers and three directors will be named at the annual meeting. Present officers include: Mr. Pond, of Richmond, president; E. Smith Peterson of Salina, first vice president; J. Arza Adams of Pleasant Grove, second vice president and William A. Barlocker of St. George, third vice president. One of the features will be panel The Effects of the Cooperative On Our Economic Life. Mr. Peterson of Salina will be moderator. Mrs. Edna Ohlwiler of Paradise will report on the womens auxuliary and Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager, will reYeats of Stebeen initiated to show the role they port on Thirty-tw- o play in big game management. Supported by the Utah Fish and Game Department, this study is being carried out by Stanford Young, graduate student in the Department of Wildlife Management at the Utah State Agricultural College. discussion on wardship. Some surprises are scheduled at the meeting, along with a special evening program. A large turnout is anticipated by Chairman Schorr who extends an invitation to all members to attend. A FARM WOMAN from Franklin, Ind., Mrs. Doris Clore Demaree Is the 1955 winner of the Russell Colgate Distinguished Service citation, the highest award given to a layman by the Protestant National Council of Churches. At the Councils annual meeting In Cincinnati, Feb. 8. the Division of Christian Education will honor her for 25 years of work with children. (International) st under-harveste- the states twelve fish hatcheries. It is known to be one of the larg-- ; est trout hatcheries in the world. through 10oG. In the early 1930s some areas of Utah were faced with a big game Dogs on the loose are a serious threat to game bird and animal problem of serious proportions. Deer numbers had exceeded the capopulations at any time. This is of the range to support them especially true during winter pacity months when heavy snows make and sportsmen, not believing overit difficult for game creatures to populations possible, were failing move about as freely as during oth- to harvest the excess animals. To meet this issue, Game Departer periods. ment and Forest Service officials Game managers are presently initiated a plan by which a number concerned with the harassing and of small areas on critical deer range losses of pheasant and deer popu-- j in different parts of the state were lations caused by dogs roaming fenced. Later, sportsmen were askloose in the fields and foothills. ed to observe these enclosures. InThey note that many times dogs side the shrubs were growing withare apprehended miles afield when out the effects of grazing; outside they were often stripped as high 100 as deer could reach. By these draStill matic contrasts the sportsmen were able to see the consequences of overpopulations of deer. On areas used by both cattle and or sheep and deer, exclosures were erected with the area fenced to a height of three feet. This excluded sheep and cattle while allowing deer to enter. The second half was fenced eight feet high and excluded both livestock and game. Outside of the exclosures marked unfenced plots allowing all classes of all animals unrestricted use of the forage. This design provided a means for studying the preferences of the different animals for certain plants, and their effects on those plants and the range generally. Since those early days, many additional exclosures have been erectt MRS. ALMA CLASON celebrates ed. The purpose of the present study her 100th birthday In Stockholm, Sweden, by enjoying is to chronicle the past use of good smoke. For 83 years she Utahs exclosures in big game manhas been puffing her way and further define their through life. Wife of a sea cap- agement, tain, sh accompanied him for role in this respect. A study of the exclosures has years and raised 10 children. Putts At one-ha- lf yes Smile With Good Light Good lighting and good taste can go together in your home . . . at such little cost nowadays. There are so many attractive lamps and wall and ceiling fixtures both pleasing and protecting to precious eyes. Use this check list for assuring good light: 1. Keep a supply of lamp bulbs on hand always socket is always filled with the right size bulb. 2. Large bulbs provide better light for easier vision. Provide plenty of lamps or. ceiling or wall fixtures for venting strain on precious eyes. 3 so every pre- 7 |