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English: Title: California fish and game

Identifier: californiafishga12_1926cali Year: (s) Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons Publisher: [San Francisco, etc. ] State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 37 Although we have just a block of ground in the center of the city of Ukiah, yet it is an ideal place for them, just like a forest. All the deer are in fine shape all year long. Every morning each one gets about a quart of rolled barley. During the spring and summer we feed them grass, alfilaria, kale, any kind of vege- tables, especially potato peelings, brush (poison oak, chamiso, madrone, oak limbs, fruit tree leaves.) Later we give them grape suckers and ripe fruits, and in the winter, dry alfalfa and acorns. They have rock salt all the time. They OPEN SEASONS FOR FUR BEARERS. Ill-advised open seasons are a natural result of lack of sufficient information regarding the life habits of fur animals on the part of farmers, trappers, mem- bers of the fur trade, legislative com- mittees and even of conservationists. The seasons established by a number of states do little to prevent the decrease of fur bearers in certain sections. A defect frequently noted in present fur laws is that the open season provided is so long that it permits trapping before pelts are prime in fall and after breeding is in progress in spring.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 11. A black-tailed deer reared by R. O. Rampont, Ukiah, California. Photograph by R. O. Rampont. nre very fond of bread, candies, peanuts, rigarettes and chewing tobacco. Our bucks lose their horns about Wash- ington's birthday. The accompanying picture shows Dick's entire set of horns when nine years old. (See Fig. 10.) You will note that for five years he was a Ihree pointer, the last two years a four pointer. Jiggs, only two years old, is a three pointer. "We are convinced that horns do not always indicate the age of a deer. We have demonstrated what can be done in deer farming when proper care and protection is given. Judging from our experience, it should be possible to increase the game in any part of the United States.—R. O. Rampont, Ukiah, Cal. Fur is in prime condition for harvest- ing at one brief season only. An open season of more than three months dura- tion is not justifiable anywhere in the United States if the prime condition of peltries and the economic status of fur animals were taken into consideration. That the seasons are not wisely detei'- mined is emphasized by the fact that far too many unprofitable pelts are coming to the raw-fur markets every year. A keener appreciation of conditions revealed by studies of the habits, breeding seasons and periods of prime fur on the part of those concerned with the framing of laws and regulations governing trapping would result in increased pelts of superior qual- ity reaching the markets, thus allowing greater financial rewards to trappers and

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