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their law to protect them during their spawning time. The international 

 treaty between Canada and the United States when published may provide 

 a proper and amicable adjustment of these things between ourselves and 

 Canada. It is to be hoped that it will, because there are many conditions 

 along the lakes, the St. Lawrence river and Lake Champlain very important 

 to all that can better be regulated in that way. 



Game in Cold Storage. 



Undoubtedly cold storage for many, if not all, of the fruits, vegetables, 

 meats, birds and fowls necessary for food is of the greatest importance; 

 yet it appears from facts found by some of our investigations, in cases 

 where violations of the law have been committed in relation to game and 

 game birds, that fish, game and birds have been kept for long periods of 

 time and then sold to the public; that thereby the public unwittingly use 

 them when it would seem that in all human probability they could not be 

 wholesome and should not be used. If this is done, then it is more than 

 probable that other food products are kept for like periods of time and sold 

 to the public. This subject is mentioned merely to call public attention 

 to it 'that through proper channels the real facts may be ascertained. 



Colonel William F. Fox. 



I should not feel that I had done my duty unless, before closing this 

 preliminary report to the Honorable, the Legislature, I place on record 

 some statement in commemoration of the work and services of Colonel 

 William F. Fox, for many years Superintendent of Forests, now deceased. 



Colonel Fox was born at Ballston Spa, N. Y., January n, 1840, the 

 son of the Rev. Norman and Jane Freeman Fox. He entered Union College 

 and was graduated from the Engineering Course in i860. Scarcely was 

 he out of College when the Civil War broke out, and he went with his regi- 

 ment as a Captain in the 107th New York Volunteers. He was later raised 

 to the rank of Major and again promoted, at the age of twenty-three, to 

 Lieutenant-Colonel. In the winter of 1863 we find him not only in com- 

 mand of the regiment, but also of the Military Post at Wartrace, Tennessee. 

 He was wounded three times, at Antietam, at Chancellorsville and at Resaca. 



