. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THIRTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 89 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF GAME FARMS By August Bade, In Charge About June 15, 1926, the game farm at Youutville became a reality. The Department of Public Works had completed a 472-pen rearing field covering 7-J acres, and also a section of 48 breeding pens. In addition to this construction work, five buildings of various types were erected—a superintendent's cottage, a mess hall, bunk house, poultry house,
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. THIRTIETH BIENNIAL REPORT 89 REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF GAME FARMS By August Bade, In Charge About June 15, 1926, the game farm at Youutville became a reality. The Department of Public Works had completed a 472-pen rearing field covering 7-J acres, and also a section of 48 breeding pens. In addition to this construction work, five buildings of various types were erected—a superintendent's cottage, a mess hall, bunk house, poultry house, and a combination feed and cooking room. Three other buildings have been added to the equipment since then, including an eight-car garage, a bantam poultry house 12x100 feet, and an egg and incubator room 16 x 18 feet, Additional breeding pens. Fig. 26. Yountville Game Farm, showing cooking room, employees and pheasant pens in the background. for pheasants, partridges, and turkeys have also been constructed. The present pen capacity of the plant is 624. Early in 1926, 200 ring-necked pheasant hens and 30 male birds were purchased from a private breeder in Oregon and a number of valley quail were trapped in Napa County, and these birds formed the foundation breeding stock of the farm. A few pairs of fancy pheasants were purchased and public spirited individuals donated or loaned birds to the farm so that a cross-section of the weekly report as of July 1, 1926. showed a bird population as follows: Ring-necked pheasants 2800, silver pheasants 13, golden pheasants 4, Reeves pheas- ants 2, Lady Amherst pheasants 2, Hungarian partridges 4, valley quail 149, wild geese 6, and peafowl 3, •. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission;
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