THEE OREGON SPORTSMAN 159 
By being certain that your fire is out, you pre- 
vent the possibility of a forest fire. 
Don’t carry your gun cocked. 
Don’t drag your gun over a log or through a 
fence by the barrel. 
Don’t shoot in the direction where you know 
your friend or another sportsman may be. 
Don’t fail to purchase a hunting license before 
starting off on your hunting trip. 
TROUT LIBERATION 
The work of the hatchery department is pro- 
eressing nicely, and unless some unforeseen acci- 
dent occurs, there will be a fair supply of trout 
fry for distribution in the various streams of Ore- 
gon. It is getting to be a serious problem just 
how to handle this matter of distribution and lib- 
eration. There are more anglers each year. This 
means that the trout streams are being whipped 
terrifically and a great many of our former trout 
streams have been completely exhausted of trout. 
The Commission feels that the sportsmen should 
cooperate in the matter of solving this problem. 
The Commission thinks that a stream which has 
been stocked should be closed for the remainder 
of that year and for the year following. If this 
were done, unquestionably there would be more 
trout in the next few years. We would like to have 
an expression of opinion from the sportsmen on 
this matter. It resolves itself in the final analysis, 
the question of whether or not the sportsmen are 
willing to sacrifice the pleasure of fishing on a 
