WZ- 
 
 
     The valuation placed on quail in this report is considered extremely
con- 
servative. Of course a live bird is worth more than a dead one, but it would

cost the state in excess of $8,000,000 to replace last season's quail kill
with 
Mexican quailo bird for bird. Commissioner Twitty places his valuation of
a 
killed quail at 40 cents, while game breeders tell us it costs approximately

#2.12 each to raise these birds in captivity. 
     According to federal reports 64,981 sportsmen paid $79,155 into the
state 
treasury for the privilege of hunting in Georgia last season* With these
funds 
the State Game end Fish Department was operated. It is easy to see that unless

the program of game restoration does not immediately receive a much greater

financial support the enormous annual wild life kill in that state cannot
long 
continue. 
     At the lowest possible cost of replacement for each bird and animal
killed$ 
it would cost the state considerably in excess of $8.000,000 if the hunters

should set about such an undertaking. Aside.from that consideration - which
is 
merely an illustrative one - the compilation of the state game and fish depart-

ment, from its survey and questionnaire, shows that the wild life of the
state 
is furnishing food value to the people of that commonwealth in excess of
five 
and a quarter millions every year. 
     Obviously it is an asset Of the state well worthy of co-operative protec-

tion and preservation.