wildlife in the Farm Program and each member of each Council provided
with same, giving information as to how a program could be carried out
with very little expense to the landowners or tenants on farms in conserving
the soil, thereby prohibiting erosion, and also reforesting areas of submarginal
land which were unprofitable for cultivation and restoring wildlife to said
properties.

During the year ending September 30, 1942, from the Gwynnbrook Game
Farm were distributed in the State 6,782 bob-white quail, 1,541 pheasants,
332 chukor partridges and 72 wild ducks; at the Wicomico Farm, 1,614
bob-white quail, 3 wild geese and 10 chukor partridges; at the Washington
County Game Refuge, 265 wild turkeys; and at the Montgomery County
Game Refuge, 100 bob-white quail, 276 pheasants and 101 wild ducks.
Through the kindness of Mr. Edwin J. Baetjer, who had been propagating
bob-white for some years at his plant, the White Oak Quail Farm near
Richmond, Virginia, the State was presented with 918 bob-white quail,
which were liberated through the covers of the State. In addition, during the
Spring of 1942 there were received from Federal agencies 941 bob-white
quail.

Also distributed in the State were 10,656 cotton tail rabbits.
Chapter 354, Acts of 1939. provided that the Fresh Water Fisheries should
be transferred June 1, 1939, from the Conservation Commission of Mary-
land to the State Game and Inland Fish Commission for supervision.

The Department now owns and operates an extensive fresh water fish
hatchery at Lewistown, Frederick County, Maryland, where trout and black
bass are propagated in captivity; also owns and operates a trout nursery at
Bear Creek in Garrett County; a black bass nursery at Fairlee Station in
Kent County; and in addition, operates rearing stations at Cushwa Station
in Washington County and at the Ritchie pools in Frederick County.

Placed in the streams and rivers of the State from the fish hatcheries from
October 1, 1941 to September 30, 1942 were approximately 150,000 legal
size large and small mouth black bass, brown, rainbow and brook trout.

At a meeting of the Game and Inland Fish Commission held on July 30,
1942, Garner Wood Denmead was re-elected Chairman, J. H. Gambrill, Jr.,
Vice-Chairman, and Harold Smith Kolmer, who has been Secretary of the
State Game Department since February 1, 1919, was elected Secretary.

The total assets of the Department (with no liabilities) as of September
30, 1942, are $248,132.88, of which sum $184,337.04 represents game farms
and preserves, game farm stock, equipment and cash, and the balance of
$63,796.84 land, improvements, equipment and cash in the angler's license
fund or inland fish division.
The wild waterfowl season is controlled entirely by Federal regulations

GAME AND INLAND FISH COMMISSION
514 Munsey Building, Baltimore-2, Maryland

(Appointed by the Game and Inland Fish Commission under the Merit
System)

E. Lee LeCompte State Game Warden Cambridge
Richard T. Norris Chief Deputy Warden Glen Burnie
Harold Smith Kolmer Secretary Baltimore
Madeline Z. Englar Stenographer-Secretary Baltimore
Marian McKenna Senior Stenographer Baltimore
Blanche E. Keen Junior Stenographer Baltimore