owned game farms operated by the department are as follows: Gwyn-
brook State Game Farm in Baltimore County, Montgomery State
Game Farm in Montgomery County, Washington State Game Farm in
Washington County, Wicomico State Game Farm in Wicomico County,
and Belle Grove State Game Farm in Allegany County. At these
farms bobwhites, chukar partridges, wild ducks, and wild turkeys
are propagated.

In several sections of Maryland special emphasis has been placed
on refuges giving protection to critically reduced species, particularly
wild turkeys, wild waterfowl and squirrels.

The Commission now owns and operates a fresh water fish hatchery
at Lewistown, Frederick County, where trout and black bass are
propagated. It also owns and operates trout rearing stations at Bear
Creek in Garrett County and Beaver Creek in Washington County.

Sixty (60) major surface water areas containing more than five (5)
acres each have been stocked with warm or cold water fish species
and over eighty (80) streams receive quotas of commercially pur-
chased or State hatchery reared fish during the year.

The Inland Fish Division raises nearly 100,000 (30,000 lbs.) adult
Trout each year and 76,000 fingerlings. Approximately 25,000 finger-
ling Small Mouth Bass, together with fingerling Large Mouth Bass
and Bluegills, are also raised for over 200 farm ponds annually.

Supplementing this State program is the purchase of adult Large
Mouth Bass, Crappie, Walleyes and Bluegills which total some
50,000 adults going into our warm waters as brood fish and "put and
takers" relieving the pressure of resident and non-resident fishermen,
particularly in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions.

Expenditures Appropriation

1950 1951
Angler's Fund $136,574.07 $118,221.00
Game Fund 442,906.00 349,261.00
Federal Funds 68,398.00 65,000.00

Total $647,878.07 $532,482.00
Staff: 77

DEPARTMENT OF FORESTS AND PARKS

The Commission:

Chairman: Sydney D. Peverley, 1952

Bernard I. Gonder, 1953; H. Lee Hoffman, 1954; J. Miles
Lankford, Maryland Farm Bureau, 1955; J. Wilson Lord,
Maryland State Grange, 1956.
Joseph F. Kaylor, Director
H. C. Buckingham, State Forester
Karl E. Pfeiffer, Assistant Director
Adna R. Bond, Assistant Forester
Carl Stravinski, Park Technician
David O. Prince, Supervisor, Roadside Trees

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Annapolis 2329