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Show Idood News For Utah Pheasant Hunters Good news to Utah pheasant hungers hun-gers is word frorn Director Ross eonr.rd. Utah Fish and Game Commission, Com-mission, that arrangenients are I completed for construction of two I new pheasant brooder houses at Ogden Bay Refuge and between Price and Helper in Carbon. County, j Until now, the state's only pheasant phea-sant brooder has been at the Springville Spring-ville Hatchery. I The Ogden brooder house, a structure 20 by 70 feet equipped with a hot air furnace, will be located lo-cated alongside the old CCC camp I of Hooper near the refuge dike. It will be used only to rear pheasant i chicks, hatched at a Provo com-mercial com-mercial hatchery, until they reach planting size. The Carbon plant will be essentially the same. 1 "We formerly hatched our phea-; phea-; si,nt eggs as well as reared them at Springville, but now we are experiencing exper-iencing better results and economy by removing the eggs as soon as they 'are laid by the Springville brood-' cry and letting commercial experts hatch the n out, "Leonard explained. Cost of the Ogden brooder house Is approximately $3,500. according! to Wi.rden Anon Johnson who drew thp plans and will supervise construction. con-struction. The Carbon brooder house' is to be let out on private contract. I |