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CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME. 



, guilty of repeated ofifenses, was sentenced 

 recently to three m/)nths in jail. This 

 offender was not given the alternative of 

 paying a fine. The Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act has been in force since July, 

 1918, and several hundred convictions 

 have been secured. These cases are cited 

 by the Biological Survey, United Slates 

 Department of Agriculture, which admin- 

 isters the law, to show the increasing 

 concern with which the courts regard 

 violations of this important statute, 

 designed to protect migratory birds, 

 insectivorous birds and nongame birds. 



COOPERATIVE INTEREST 

 BETWEEN STATES. 



The NewYork Zoological Society offered 

 a reward of $200 for the arrest and 

 conviction of any one killing antelope. 

 On December 11, lS19, the following 

 resolution was passed : 



Resolved, that the chairman be directed 

 to notify Mr. Williau L. Finley, State 

 Biologist of Oregon, that the New York 

 Zoological Society hereby authorizes and 

 will pay a reward of $200 for information 

 leading to the arrest and conviction of 

 any one killing wild antelope in the State 

 of Oregon, upon the condition that the 

 Oregon Fish and Game Commission give 

 publicity and post notices to the above 

 effect, and the treasurer of the society 

 is hereby authorized to pay from the 

 funds of the society the stated reward 

 upon satisfactory evidence of such con- 

 viction. ji£(| 



The payment of this reward has been 

 authorized and a cheek for .$100 has 

 been sent to Mr. George Tonkin, U. S. 

 Game Warden, box 1531, Boise, Idaho, 

 and a check for $100 has also been 

 sent to Sheriff E. E. Woodcock, Lake- 

 view, Oregon. 



The Boone and Crockett Club are 

 about to pass a similar resolution, which 

 will apply to future convictions only. 



WATER POLLUTION IN OHIO. 



For ten years the water pollution 

 problem was ineffectually dealt with in 

 Ohio. Between 1909-1919 the responsi- 

 bility of the yearly increasing urgency for 

 action was passed from one department 

 to the other — Health, Fish and Game 

 and the State Chemists. The chemists 

 accumulated much analytical information 

 but they seemed to have found no remedy. 

 In 1919 Mr. A. C. Baxter, Chief of the 



Ohio department, Mr. J. W. Stuber and 

 Mr. J. T. Travers, Supervisor Stream 

 Pollution, Ohio Department of Agricul- 

 ture, took hold of the question and now, 

 after having conducted experiments for 

 over a year, Mr. Travers and Mr. E. J. 

 Lewis, a water expert and chemist of 

 Bellaire, Ohio, are ready to demonstrate 

 the satisfactory results of their experi- 

 mentation. 



The process is the treatment of the 

 pollution in vats as it leaves the factory 

 or mine with a chemical having a lime 

 base. This chemical precipitates or con- 

 trols any organic pollution held in sus- 

 pension in the vats, and also releases 

 any poisonous gases. 



The cost of the treatment is from 2 

 to 3 cents per thousand gallons, depend- 

 ing on the nature of the pollution, and 

 the cost of installation is about $1,000. 

 It is claimed that the by-products will 

 often more than pay for the cost of 

 installation and operation. The charac- 

 ter and amount of polluted matter which 

 is emptied into the Ohio streams daily 

 is as follows : 



Steel Mills — Sulphuric acid, three per 

 cent solution. Six thousand gallons per 

 day as an average from each factory 

 polluting streams. 



Straw Board Works — Organic matter 

 which generates poison gases that dis- 

 place the oxygen in the water and causes 

 a sickening stench. Average of 800,000 

 gallons every 24 hours emptied into 

 adjacent streams at each plant. 



Siiffar-heet Factories — Deadly organic 

 matter which drives the oxygen from the 

 water and kills every living thing in it. 

 An average of 3.000,000 gallons every 

 24 hours from each sugar-beet factory in 

 the state that uses a stream as a sewer. 



Canning Factories, Cheese Factories 

 and Casein Factories — Deadly organic 

 pollution. Two thousand gallons per day 

 from each factory that empties pollution 

 into a waterway or stream. 



Coal Mines — ^Copperas water contain- 

 ing from 300 to 500 grains per gallon of 

 ferrous sulphate, deadly to aquatic life 

 of all kinds and strong enough to eat 

 up a steel rail in ten days. From 

 10.000 to 50,000 gallons per day, each 

 mine. 



The problem of stream pollution to 

 all State Fish and Game Commissions 

 is one of vital importance because of the 

 exterminating effect of pollution on all 

 forms of aquatic life. 



The manufacturers throughout the 

 State of Ohio are planning to install the 



