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’CoIumnist‘"s Loist Fling . At Piieascint Controversy
It is not my intention to ch
on the pros and cons of the cur-‘
rem pheasant prczfram. 1i:m'everI dawn. W
1 am having a last shot at at- gempting to get our sights set on
we pheasant situation as applied; remote ai‘
to our own province of P.E.I.‘
,-espect to B.C.'s decision to a- tsandon a restocking program that had been in force for sixty years borders on the ridiculous. Wiscon- sin also arrived at the same con-
clusion...‘a waste of time andiing
money’ and decided to devote their efforts toward improving habitat, etc., for the benefit of their wild stock. Duck may blow‘
is this columnist's belief th at before three years have passed: Alberta also will have joined up with British Columbia, Wisconsin ‘nd other States and organ-iza- lions who have a sufficiant stock 01' wild birds to work with.
Duck's comments on the Al- berta situation are correct up to . point. It wasn’t a silver thaw mat decimated the pheasants in the Brooks area of Alberta. It was terrific blizzard, the worst in the memory of may A1bertan‘s. I talked to Alberta game offi- cial; about what happened. The pheasants were literally blown out of the table flat area around -Brooks and eastwm-d. I have been ‘over it. It's so large the prov- ince of P.E.I. would pass as an over sized Ranch in comparison. yew pheasants survived in the Brooks irrigation district and those that did crouched in the lea of farm buildings until the ‘blow was over.
The officials explained that the igituation wasn’t as bad as some pictured. Photographs were shown of pheasant tails protruding from “now drifts but they also pointed out that in sheltered tree covered bluffs and coulees along the Bow River and elsewhere on fair per- oontoge of birds survived to move In mid re-populate the Brooks ares. True approximately 40,000 egg were purchased _in Califor- nia and incubator hatched but this has developed into a con- troversy In Alberta. Many cou- tend that the eggs «purchased in California had little or nothing to do with the Alberta pheasant comeback . . . it was the native wild stock that won their way back and that the thousands of dollars spent on eggs and hatch- ing facilities was frittered away on a gesture.
HOME FRONT
Now we'll get back to the home front. . .it’s P.E.I. were in- terested in. Introducing pheasants to any place to which they were not native is a long, uphill climb. We started ‘in 1916 and it was
31 years later in 1947 before we had an open season. It wasn’t as simple as releasing hundreds or thousands of birds and sitting back and watching them multi- ply. There is a process of ad-
_ 8!‘-’.'.e Fll‘(:ulld the old home and this column into a cr)1i?.i'ovc:'<:y: lxlondy
no crowing cocks greeted the
the wild get into grave difficul-
. Pact groups. . some of ‘Ducks’ comments with ary quarantine, ?spread out again. When l\'ature’s5 ‘cycle hits the rabbit population i__and cuts it down by an approx- ‘imate 98 or 99 per cent cut one- may travel for miles without see- Slgn of a rabbit and then Come UPDOII an out-of-the way swamp with twenty or thirty in it. It wasn’t a cycle hit the pheas- , ,3“I5 35 Cycles do not strike in a fuse at this comment but it1stages. I practically down to zero in south- ern Queens in the fall of 1956, and y_et was excellent in the Hun- ter River area. But. . .there were practically none in 1957 in the Hunter River area. POCKETS OF PHEASANTS
I mentioned knowing of 10 ‘poc- kets’ of pheasants in the fall of 1957. . .t.he bulk of them across the river. . .bnt contrary to ‘Duck’s' inference I didn't gun them. 1 do not betray a farmer’s confid- ence but in any event I wasn’t in the mood to hunt pheasants in 1957. This Spring (1958) the pheas- ant outlook is brighter. At least three cocks are crowing within a half mile radius of the old home stead and Crown Point, once the home of pheasants that was bar- ren in 1957, now sports a Cock and 4 hens. A farmer at Alex- andra told me this spring that he often counted as many I phe.a«sa'nts along the edge Lloyd Carver’s woods when re- turning from his back-farm work but never heard or saw a pheas- ant there all through 1957. They are back this spring.
Now here is an interesting point: “Duck" and his associates ,had big things planned for 1957 and figured on releasing at least 1,000 full grown pheasants in the fall of 1957. Alas, disease broke out and hundreds of birds were ordered gassed. Their entire stock was destroyed including the pair- ent birds. Imagine the anvil chor- us at the moment if their pro- ject hadn’t struck a snag when this spring the pheasants re-ap- peared in their old haunts. . .look how we brought them back.
The only pheasants released in 1957 were approximately 30 hens kept,for breeders that turned in- to cocks. Some of our self styled pheasant experts cannot tell a cock from a hen until it grows a set of spurs. You want to Spur iip boys. Now don’t get me wrong I am not inferring that Duck can- not tell a cock from a hen un- til it grows spurs. He can, but I can’t say as much for some of his adherents. I place them in. the same caitegory as a retired, maiden lady, who wanted a ho- -bby and decided to go into the poultry business.
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the . _ _, _ ke Road were silent. i1' I“ P“ 1”’ 1°‘ 20' 22 and
eas and stay in co-m-I .Nature's volunt- . until it‘s safe to I
tracting business closed Blue Bonnets
MacDonald has moved had two wins last night
mighty good this spring. “The Smith brothers Mt. Stewart are stabled
Pheasant hunting was
The crowds are ve
over $300,000. Some few ago, $20,000 was a handle." ’
Thanks, Vern. for so remembering us, and we you will pay a visit to
and to do this, they have
them:
22 of about a cock crowing
and decided upon that Something evidently was
for she only got one egg She called in a poimltry
ion of the release. With
ty west of Portage.‘ How
less than
She had read time will tell.
and he found her trouble. . had 24 -rooster-s and one hen.
Now I don’t pound a typewrit-D er just to hear the keys rattle. , I feel -that the exponents of this pheasant program have not used common sense in the distr-lut-I
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27.
Summerside:- July 1, 16. 18 or 1 b- . ~ . 119 (Lobster Carnival Meetl.
ten irds 01 animals ml Have just received a’ letter ‘ me; the Survivors move back mm ; from Vern Oatway, a former Is- lander well known in this .who is now doing a large
city
, and
Ted Genesee has had. two wins and ‘a second up to today. He goes again tonight, but is being put in a faster class. He looks
from here
with the Earl Rowe horses, and are ‘doing 0. K. The older bro- ther does most of the drviing. large for the year. and Sun ay they bet
years
terrific
kindly hope your
Island home this summer. Saint John horsemen are de- termlned that they are going to have some of the best and fast- est _horses in the Maritime nac- lng over their track this year,
added
a lot of new speed in the last few weeks. Here are a few of,
Bold Venture, p, 205 4-5, win- ner of $16,220 and a 2.14 Glass pacer; he won at Wilmington
in the
midst of »his four and -twenty hens
ratio. amiss a day. exipert
. she
West
Prince crying for pheasants to stock a pheasantless country they set down hundreds of birds in Queens county in places that al- ready held a peak population. Here is a matter for Duck to ponder upon. In the ‘spring of 1956, 160 hens pheasants were re- leased in Prince County accom- panied by the proper proportion of males. I have this from a mem- er of -the Game Association as- sociated with their distribution. In the fall 1800 young birds were set down. The bulk of both plant- ings were made in‘ Prince Coun-
many
pheasants are in Prince County this spring of 1958? My guess is 100. According ‘Duck's figuring there should be several thousand. Who is right. . .
to
justmeut that requires years to take place. Alberta found that out too. It took long years of disap- pointing set-backs before they ac- hieved their goal. I happen to know what I am talking about for I have severm brothers in‘ Calgary who are ardent huntersi and who kept me posted, on de-! velopments. Inspector Scott, who! came to “L” Division ‘from Cal-I gary, related t-o me, how disap- pointed the sponsors of this move were. They'd watch the birds rise to 1 peak that promised an open season in a year or two only to see them take a severe reverse. Suddenly they took hold to stay like they did in this province. “Duck” claims two releases of mature pheasants totalling ap - proximately 750 in 1946 and the spring of 1947 put the birds over the top. We had thousands of pheasants in Queens county at the time but this is beside the Point. . .the season was opened al- lowing 3 Cock birds in the year 1957. There were no further re- leases of pheasants until 1956.. . 9 years later. What happened in the 9 years? The birds kept doub- bling in numbers until in 1953 an Open season was allowed on hens with the bag limit 5 pheasants per day of either sex. That year (1953) according to a Game Cen- sus returns tabulation on a per- centage basis of 5,000 hunters in Queens County the pheasant kill 11} Queens County alone was es- ‘ Ilmated at 15,000 Queens County was literally crawling with pheas- ants. A party of three hunters bagged 160 between them. Ano- er country lad of my acquain- tance shot 23 and could have bag- led a hundred if he hadn't so many misses in his system. There ave been different versions as the reason a season was al- lowed on hen birds. I was one of 9 sponsors of that move. It Wasn't because the cock birds were driving out the ruffed grouse
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tthat hens were increasing out of all proportion to the Cocks illld barren hens were interfer- mg with the nesting of the youn- lei‘ birds. AT THEIR PEAK _ 0111‘ pheasants were at their Peak in the fall of 1955. There W916 8 covey’s within a half mile radius of the Old Home farm. They wintered well and lots of, birds were crowing in the‘; ‘mug of 1956 around the old‘ pmestead. There were no reces-I 510115 in numbers or any inklingi, -‘it such was in store. And yet I at this time ‘Duck’ and his adher- ' 91115 decided to attempt to im-, Prove on a one hundred per cent 1 Investment and released trons -' ‘Dds of pheasants hatched from 1 eggs laid from penned birds. They I ‘lent ahead with this project des- 5, expert advice from sever-all 5°“I‘Ces warning against such a m°Ve. The result is now his-Y 1‘y. In September farmers re- p°“I9d that the pheasants mov-.
ed from their sector as they had}
afll heard or seen them for. e°k5- They moved into another? “<1 Period
'01“ 1%7 the pheasants were “ml That spring the coverts
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in 2.08.
M-'=l.ior's King. 11. 2.04. six years old, raced‘by Fred Mawhinney, Machias, Maine, last season ad won at Mount Vernon, New York, August 17 in 2.04. His win- nings total $12,393. He is a 2.15 pacer.
Mighty Brewer, p, 2.01 3-5, eight years old and winner of $54,802.‘Eligible to the 2.05 Class. Bradison, p, 2.08 1-5, was 8 times first, 6 times second, and 5 times third last year: his total winnings are $5,255 and he is eligible to the 2.18 Pace. Sturdy Jimmy, p, 2.03, is eight years old and won at Vernon Downs last year in 2.06. He is eligible to the 2.14 Class.
Aileen Blue, P, 6, 2.09. Won in Toronto on Atibust 15 last year in 2.10. She is eligible to the 2.14 Class.
Dixie K, p, 2.08. Eligible to the 2.22 class. Dr. Pence, p, 2.07, won at Maywood, Chicago, in 2.08 2-5 last year; eligible to the 2.20 pace: Roger Stone, p, 2.08 3-5, eligible to the 2.10 class and has total winnings of $32,- 244.
And here is our plck—Success Vic. D, 2.07, was 12 times first, twice second and 4 times third
Delaware on Anbus-t 15 last yearl September 2 fast year, he ‘won
‘the 2.21 class pace with 1-1 in
ma great battle with Scottish Light, who finished 2-2. Time 2.08 4-5 and 2.07 2-5 the fastest miles paced at that meeting. Scottish Light is at present very nicely settled at the Charlottetown track in the James ‘i\lacGregor stable.
True Captain. 2.06 1-5, is eligible to the 2.14 class and won at Livonia, Michigan, last year in 2.12 2-5. And finally there is Victory Counsel. 2.04 4-5, ten years old, winner of $12,655 and eligible to the 2.15 pace. RECORD NUMBER
Never in the history of racing in the Maritime provrinces has there been so many horses in training. There are over 100 in Cape Breton. Applications for stalls at Sackville Downs run to more than 150. Truro will have its usual quota-between 60 and 70. Saint John will have over 100 and possibly 150. Fred- ericton, Moncton and Wood- stock all expect to be filled up, and last, but by ‘no means least, is Charlottetown, which may have applications running to over 150.
There will be quite a few changes this year; no visitors
mrfy the owners, drivers and grooms of the horses. This will be carried out most strictly! Saliva and urine tests will be taken by full qualified veterin- arians, under the supervision of the R.C.M.P. The pari-mutuel betting will be supervised by the Federal Department of Agricul- ture, through the R. C. M. P. This was not carried out by all Maritime tracks last year, but has been in effect for several years at Charlottetown.
In our recent letter from W. P. Edwards of Fredericton, in which he referred to the Roose- velt Raceway program for Sat- urday, April 29, we neglected to include the excellent perfor- mance of Bay State Pat, 2.02 4-5, in the sixth race, the “Happy Times" for a $5,000 purse.
The field was a high-classed one. and Bay State Pat finished right at the winner's shoulder, time-2.0302-5. The winner was Hundred Proof, 2.01 2-5. winner of over $50,000. Easy‘ Adios, 2.01 2-5, was third. Blue Field, 2.03 4-5. was founth. H. A. Direct, 2.02 1-5, was fifth and three other starters. Bay State Pat is now owned by Jacques Beaudoin,
lwrftes that "Cyril Smith, Hunter
River, has taken over the race horses owned by Sam Walker, Halifax. They are: Eddie Ho- osier, 2.12 1-5; Mr. Rock, 2.08 1-5: and he has also added to his stable Price Tag. 2.05. Other members are: Barbara Ann Queen, 2.09 2-5: Vera Signal 2.15; Kildare Girl, 2.16 4-5; Pennsy- lvania, 2.14 2-5; Royal Value, 2.04 2-5; Ruthie’: First, 2.21 3-5; Nokomis Belle; Diana's Girl; Christie’s Best ‘and Spin’n Span.
Other stables that will be mov- ing into Sackville Downs
are the “Chops” Campbell stable; the Frankie Daniels stable,
which will be divided between Saickville Downs and Truro; the Ed Haley stable; and the Let- cher stable, in charge of Ike Moreside which will include Chevie G,. 2.10, Flaming Way, 2.04 3-5, and Direct Mi-te, 2.06 3-5. And Mr. Letcher is away on a buying trip, expecting to bring in a couple more.
There are also other stables to come in, which will increase the horse population at Sack- ville Downs to between 150 and 200. Looks like the greatest sea- son for racing since the opening of the track.
Montreal, who bought him from We had the pleasure of a visit PI10110 3626 Ch’t0Wna P-E-L 70 Queen St- last year. He is eligible to the will be permitted in the stable Andrew Perry of Summerside. from Ervin Fraser, 733 Broad- , 2.21 class. At Marietta, Ohio, on area before or during the races, Our Halifax conrespondent way. Sydney, N. S., who is here "_-" """ -
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won by 9 wickets. fi Somerset 249 and 219 for 9 de- ' clared; Glamorgan 152 and 20 for I D 2. March abandoned, rain tSom- erset 4 pointsi. _ . 3 Warwicksliire 219 and 256 for . 4 declared; Conibined Services X 154 and 223. Warwickshire won by 98 runs. V Leicestershire 277 for 5 de- 3 clared and 80 for 4 declared; ‘‘ ’.\'orthampt0nshire 128 and 118 for 2. Match abandoned, rain. Middlesex 253 for 8 declared and 183 for 8; Nottinghamshire _95 and 340. Ivliddlesex won by 2 wickets. (Middlesex 12 points).
Cricket Results
LONDON (Reuters)——Results of Friday's cric-ket matches:
Cambridge University 180 and 96; Kent 162 and 115 for 1. Kent
looking over a four-year-old trotter that he may take back with him to Sydney. Mr. Fraser loves horses and drives them h.imself, just for the fun of it, but he has had quite a bit of success. A few years ago he was in second place as I leading driver in Sydney.
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