CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME, 
the year should be sufficient cause for 
arrest. Otherwise, on the plea of hunt- 
ing jack rabbits, the violator has a chance 
to be in the field during the closed season 
for quail and other game. All sports- 
men should be alive to the danger if this 
law continues to stand on the statute 
books. 
MORE TRAINED CONSERVATIONISTS. 
That there is increased interest in wild 
life is clearly shown by the educational 
opportunities offered in institutions of 
learning. Cornell University has been 
offering splendid courses on game propa- 
gation and more recently there has been 
formed at McGregor, Iowa, the American 
School of Wild Life Protection™ and 
Propagation. The aim is to establish 
an institution that will not only fill the 
interest and needs of the individual stu- 
dent, but one which will at the same time 
further the discussion and elucidation of 
large questions, such as water supply, 
despoliation of forests and the indis- 
criminate draining of lakes. It will be 
remembered that there has been con- 
siderable agitation for a national park in 
the near vicinity of McGregor, conse- 
quently the location of this school is 
ideal. The faculty will be made up of 
noted scientists connected with Iowa 
State University, Morningside College, 
Cornell. College and Iowa State College. 
With a new fisheries college established 
at the University of Washington and the 
two institutions mentioned above, there 
should be no lack of trained men to fill 
situations connected with our conserva- 
tion departments. It is to be hoped that 
there will be a larger body of trained 
men and that other institutions will be 
forced to offer work of a similar nature. 
MUD-HEN STEW “HUNTER STYLE.” 
Many a hunter having bagged a mud- 
hen throws the bird away because he 
does not realize its food value. When 
properly cooked the mud-hen is delicious, 
only surpassed in flavor by the better 
ducks. Mr. W. W. Richards offers the 
following recipe, which has been used 
for many years at ‘Green Lodge”, his 
duck preserve on the Suisun marshes: 
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Mud-Hen Stew. 
Mud-hens. Half a bay leaf. 
4 pound salt pork. Salt. 
1 medium = sized Pepper. 
onion. 1 teaspoon curry 
Potatoes (as de- powder. 
sired). 2 tablespoons flour. 
+ dozen cloves. 
Skin the birds—do not pick them— 
and soak them a few hours, or all night, 
in water to which has been added a little 
salt. Then remove the birds from the 
salt water and put them in a kettle 
containing sufficient water to cover them. 
Let the water come to a boil, then. pour 
the water off; add half a pound of salt 
pork, cut in dices; cover with hot water, 
and let boil about one hour. Then add 
half a dozen whole cloves; one medium 
sized onion cut up fine; half a bay leaf; 
salt and pepper to taste; and. peeled 
potatoes as desired, 
Mix one teaspoon of curry powder and 
two tablespoons of white flour with 
enough water to make a smooth paste, 
and add this to the stew and let it cook 
about half an hour longer before serv- 
ing it. 
Serve with boiled rice as a side dish, if 
desired. 
MAKING CONSERVATIONISTS. «: 
What more unpleasant reflection could 
be made on the sportsmen and the people 
of the United States generally than in 
the statement quoted: ‘Though game 
protection in the United States is now 
more than two hundred years old, it has 
not protected the game?” As early as 
1709 there was a closed season placed 
upon deer, wild turkeys, heath hens and 
partridges, in the state of New York, 
with a fixed penalty for violations of the 
law; and today the most important game 
animal in New York State is the rabbit. 
The wild turkey and heath hens are ex- 
tinct and the deer and partridges are 
maintained only under the proltective 
measures of the State Conservation 
Commission. However, such demoralizing 
evidence is of inestimable value if it 
makes the people of each and every state 
think of its own wild life and the best 
