FOR THE PERPETUATION OF HUNTING AND FISHING 
 
 
T HAT the Asherman can keep his lines tight and the 
    hunter can have plenty oF birds on the wing, the Mis. 
souri Game and Fish Department operates a state-wide 
fish and game hatchery and game reFuge system embracing 
more than 75,000 acres. 
  Big game, including deer and turkeys, are produced on Deer Run, 
Indian Trail, Meramec, Sam A. Baker and Big Spring State Parks, 
while small-game farms where bobwhite quail and pheasants are 
reared, are located in Harrison, Nodaway, Vernon, Newton, Ray, 
Adair, Callaway, Buchanan, Marion and Clark Counties. Game 
refuges where birds produced on the game Farms are released, are 
located in these counties and also in Randolph, Greene, Clark and 
Taney Counties. 
  Missouri has been raising fish in hatcheries and distributing them 
to the waters of the state for more than forty years. There are now 
seven hatcheries in operation, producing trout, bass, crappie, goggle- 
eye and other Same fishes. The work of stocking the waters of the 
state is augmented by millions of fish rescued from overflow waters 
each year, and fish being produced at auxiliary hatcheries. 
 
 
                     SWOPE PARK 
  This hatchery is located in Swope Park at Kansas City (2-A) and 
the output From the ponds include large mouth bass, crappie, blue- 
gills, goggle-eye, green sunfish and catfish. 
                      GIBB'S LAKE 
  Gibb's Lake Hatchery is in Crawford County at Keysville. (3-C) 
The lake, which is about 8 acres in area and fed by a spring, is well 
stocked with bass, crappie and bream. The whole tract has an 
area of 18 acres. 
                   SEQUIOTA PARK 
  Located within the confines of Sequiota State Park, 7 miles south- 
east of Springfield in Greene County, is Sequiota State Hatchery. 
(4-B) Here are produced many bass, crappie, sunfishes, and rainbow 
trout. 
               CHESAPEAKE SPRING 
  Chesapeake is the largest hatchery in the state, (4-B) having ap- 
proximately 45 acres under water. Particular attention is given the 
rearing of black bass. There are 117 acres in the state-owned tract 
at this place. 
                    FOREST PARK 
  This hatchery is located at Forest Park im the city of St. Louis. 
(2Y2-3) It has produced thousands of black bass, crappie, bream 
 
 
and ether sunfishes, as well as catfish, and Is one of the principal 
hatcheries of the state. It has been a continuous producer of fish 
stock for almost 40 years, and is the mainstay of the hatchery system 
of the sate. 
                  BENNETT SPRING 
  Bennett Spring Hatchery is located at Bennett Spring State Park in 
Laclede and Dallas Counties, twelve miles west of Lebanon. 
(3%-B) It gives attention exclusively to the propagation and dis- 
tribution of rainbow trout and has released millions of these fishes 
in the trout waters of the state. The spring branch at the hatchery is 
well stocked with trout, and is a happy rendezvous for trout fisher- 
men. German Brown trout, also, are being propagated here. 
                   ROARING RIVER 
  This hatchery, located in Roaring River State Park, (4Y2-B) given 
to the state as a gift by Dr. T. M. Sayman of St. Louis, is a trout 
hatchery only. One of Missouri's big spring furnishes the water 
for the hatchery, and also forms the headwaters of Roaring River, 
an excellent Ozark trout stream. 
  Auxiliary hatcheries have been established at Cedar Gap (4-BY) 
Wdight County, Cedar Fork (32/2-D) Perry County, Liberty Memorial 
Park, Sedalia (2Y2-B) Pettis County, Confederate Home, Hig- 
ginsville (2-AY2) Lafayette County, Eldorado Lake, Eldorado 
Springs, (3-AA') Cedar County, Lake Venita, Odessa, (2-A%/) 
Lafayette County, Ziske Lake, Boonville, (2-B) Cooper County.