Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Report of Game Commissioner. [ARTICLE]

Report of Game Commissioner.

The Biennial Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game has been received at* the Governor’s office and will make a most handsome and imposing volume of about eight hundred pages. It is divided into three departments, fish, game and birds. The ■ department of fisheries contains new pictures and descriptions of the principal fishes of Indiana

wat€fs<also a list of fishes known to Indiana waters compiled’'by the Assistant Curator of the Columbian Field Museum of Chicago; Description of the rivers of Indiana by the Commissioner, and of The Lakes of Indiana by the Commissioners, aided by several citizens of the state. It has also an article on bird and animal anglers; another on the angler’s workshop, which contains a storehouse of information for a’.l fishermen; an article on fish culture; another on fish culture in Indiana; one on the mussel Industry of Indiana; articles, also, on the pollution of streams and the fish laws of Indiana. The commissioner has in the last two years reared and deposited in Indiana waters nearly 5,000,000 black bass, which if purchased by the state from a fish hatchery represent a value of one-half million dollars. Thei department of game contains articles on education by the gun; “The Game Warden of Today; Upland Game Birds; Mongolian Pheasants; Hungarian Partridges; Water Fowl of Indiana; one on Duck Shooting; one on Sporting Dogs; another on Gome Preservation and Destruction; also articles on Game Animals of Indiana; Taxidermy; Camping and Woodcraft; Wilderness Homes; The Rise of the American Motor Boat; a complete directory of officials enforcing fish and game laws in the United States; one on Open and Closed Seasons for Game in the Different States and one on Gdme Laws and Decisions.

The department of birds cont a'ns articles on John James Audubon; The Audubon Society; The Bird; Utility of Birds in Nature; Hawks; Buzzards, Eagles and Kites and What I Have Done With Birds. This will make tte nr st cjmpl te report ever issued by Mr. Swe n?y. It will be illustrated with ab ut fifty beautiful colored plates representing the game animals and birds of the state, and some two or three hundred half tones which illustrate the various articles above mentioned.

It will be distributed through the members of the Legislature, which have just been elected, and any one desiring a free copy of this report would better apply at once to t ! e r member of the House of Representatives or State Senator. The. demand for Mr. Sweeney’s Report is always ten times as great as the supply and parties who are fortunate enough to secure a copy may congratulate themselves thereupon.