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the province where hunting is allowed. 



The game refuge side of the worli has 

 been so successful that the park is in some 

 respects overstocked with game animals, 

 and these can now be taken in consider- 

 able numbers from year to year, without 

 endangeiing the park as a source of supply 

 and without diminishing the number below 

 a safe point. It was first suggested that 

 the Ontario Government would conduct a 

 great fur farm and trap a])out 1,000 

 beavers per year, selling the skins. This 

 is done to a considerable extent. But the 

 growth of fur farming and the demand 

 from zoological gardens for live animals 

 has made it more profitalde to eatcli the 

 animals alive. 



engravings shown lierewith 



It is inter- 

 esting to Ivnow that since this trap has 

 been used very few animals have been 

 caught only part way in it and killed, 

 while, on the other hand, two animals have 

 been caught alive at one time. The beaver 

 and other animals, after being caught, are 

 fed in a jjlace proi^erly protected until 

 ready for shipping, when they are shipped 

 in the boxes covered with wire netting, 

 .shown in one of the engravings. 



Beaver skins, when sold in cpiantities, 

 a\'erage around .$10 per pelt, but the live 

 lieaver bring much more. If you think of 

 starting a fur farm, or keeping some pet 

 fur-bearing animals, you can be supplied 

 by the Ontario Government from Algon- 

 quin Park at the following rates per pair: 

 Minlv, $35; beaver, $.50; martin, $80; fisher, 

 ^150; otter, $150. 



OBITUARY. 



Taking Out a Live Beaver. 



Various expedients were devised for 

 this, and the most successful is a cage trap 

 invented by Mr. James Bartlett, son of 

 Mr. G. W. Bartlett, who has been Superin- 

 tendent of the Park for the past seventeen 

 years. This trap is like an old-fashioned 

 vahse or carpet bag, with sides made of 

 chains. The animal steps on the baited 

 spring and the trap closes around it, with- 

 out hurting it, and at the same time hold- 

 ing it securely. In the case of beaver, 

 and other aquatic animals, the trap is set 

 under water, but in such shallow water 

 that when sprung the top of the chain 

 bag will be above water, so that the animal 

 can get its nose out to breathe. The gen- 

 eral plan of these traps will be seen in the 



Death has again been busy in the ranks 

 of those who have taken an active part iu 

 forest conservation. 



After a long illness, Hon. Colin H. Camp- 

 bell, former Minister of Public Works and 

 Attorney General of Manitoba, died at his 

 residence in Winnipeg. Mr. Campbell at- 

 tended the Canadian Forestry Convention 

 at Victoria as the rej^resentative of the 

 I'liixince of Manitoba, and was so much 

 impressed with the need of active mea- 

 sures of forest conservation that he was 

 tlie inspirer of the invitation from the 

 Government of Manitoba to hold the 1913 

 Forestry Convention in Winnipeg. Un- 

 fortunately, before the convention was 

 held, Mr. Camjjbell suffered from a para- 

 lytic stroke, which was the beginning of 

 the illness which caused his death. He 

 was away in Europe when the convention 

 s held, and was never able to again take 

 I in public affairs. 



Mr. D. E. Wilkie, President and General 

 Manager of the Imperial Bank of Canada, 

 who, for a number of years, had been a 

 warm supporter of forest conservation, 

 died after a brief illness at his residence 

 in Toronto, on Nov. 16. Mr. Wilkie was a 

 Canadian by birth, a native of the city of 

 (Quebec, and had spent all his business life 

 in Canadian financial in titutions. He was 

 made genera, luauagcr of the Imperial 

 Bank u' on its incorporation, and retained 

 that post until the time of his death, which 

 was wholly unexpected. About eight years 

 ago he was made president as well as gen- 

 eral manager. For the past eight or ten 

 years Mr. Wilkie had taken a personal in- 

 terest in forest conservation, believing that 

 much of Canada's prosperity depended 

 upon the way she dealt with her natural 

 resources. 



