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RECREATION. 



hiz nabors will nominate him next fall for 

 the Assembly. 



A man who haz caught one ov theze big 

 fish iz generally prouder ov it than he iz ov 

 his grandfather, and if he ain't a pretty 

 well balanced man he will git to talkin' about 

 it in sum evenin' meetin'. 



Broiled trout are good, but fride in pork 

 juice they are better. 



All fish to be the best should be cooked 

 with animile life enuff in them to do their 

 own floppin' on the gridiron. 



Ninety-nine big trout out ov every ioo 

 are kaught bi mistake, and are az often 

 kaught bi barefooted boys with a hum-made 

 fish line and a willow pole. 



I hav fisht for brook trout for 40 years, 

 and never kaught but one that weighed over 

 a pound, and dropt mi pole and line bi the 

 side of the hole where i ketched him and 

 run home, 3^ miles, with that trout in both 

 hands, more exalted than a newly elekted 

 constable. 



I never hav fisht for lake trout; i don't 

 want to spile mi simplicity for brook trout 

 in the hills and meadows. 



What I kno about trout and trout fishin' 

 may all be wrong, but i hav'n't got it out 

 ov books, but pikt it up az i did mi fust 

 pair ov shuze, by workin' for it. 



The only theory i hav in the matter iz 

 rllwuss to fill mi basket when i go out, and 

 hav often done it in the last hour's fishin', 

 when it did seem az though trout waz az 

 skar.se az prayers among the nuzeboys. 



I kaught 1492 brook trout last summer 

 in the White Mountains, and if I hadn't 

 been as modest as a book agent, i should 

 have been spilte bi the menny compliments 

 i received for mi good luk. 



Next to ketchin' a brook trout that 

 weighs a naff pound cums the bliss ov 

 bringin' him in to yure hotel. 



LECTURES 0*N FISH AND GAME PRO- 

 TECTION. 



One of the required courses in the New 

 York College of Forestry of Cornell Uni- 

 versity is a course in fish culture and fish 

 and game protection. During the spring 

 term the juniors and seniors of that col- 

 lege are located at Axton, in the heart of 

 the Adirondacks, where the college owns 

 50,000 acres of forest. There the students 

 observe and engage in practical forestry 

 operations, observe and study logging, lum- 

 bering and milling, and become familiar 

 with the details of forestry operations and 

 management. 



In the belief that forestry operations 

 should not be carried on in a way detri- 

 mental to the useful animals inhabiting the 

 forest or to the lakes and streams and 

 their inhabitants, Dr. Fernow, the director, 

 has provided a course of lectures on these 

 subjects. The course consists, first, of a 



series of lectures and demonstrations on 

 fish culture in which are considered all of 

 the important fresh water fishes, particular- 

 ly those found in the lakes and streams 

 of our forested regions ; second, lectures 

 on stream and lake pollution and the ne- 

 cessity for their protection; third, lectures 

 on American game mammals, birds, and 

 fishes, the relation of insectivorous birds 

 and other animals to the forest and to agri- 

 culture, the principles of game protection, 

 and a discussion of game laws and regu- 

 lations, including the Lacey law and the 

 work of the League of American Sports- 

 men. 



In addition to the formal course of 25 

 lectures, the students are taken on daily 

 excursions to streams, lakes and mountains 

 for observation work. The effects on the 

 streams of logging and lumbering opera- 

 tions are observed, and the fishes, mam- 

 mals, birds, plants and other animals of the 

 region are studied, thus giving the stu- 

 dents training and interest in proper meth- 

 ods of nature study. 



This course is given on alternate years 

 by Dr. B. W. Evermann, who has just been 

 promoted to the position of Assistant in 

 Charge, Division of Scientific Inquiry, U. 

 S. Fish Commission, and the course is 

 unique in American college instruction. 



The importance of instruction along 

 these lines is only coming to be appreciated 

 and it is a work which other colleges 

 would do well to take up. Courses in 

 zoology in our colleges deal too largely 

 with questions which have no bearing on 

 animals as living organisms, many of them 

 intimately associated with our physical and 

 commercial as well as intellectual well be- 

 ing. The natural history spirit needs to 

 be fostered ; students, from the grades to 

 the universities, need to know more of Na- 

 ture, to have a greater love for her chil- 

 dren, and an appreciation of their place in 

 Nature's economy and our daily life. 



The course this year was given during 

 the first 3 weeks of May to a class of 25 

 students and professors and proved suc- 

 cessful in every way. 



PROBABLY NETTED THEM. 

 Your letter to hand asking about catch 

 of fish reported to you. The report is true. 

 We made the catch in Deer Lodge county. 

 20 miles from Anaconda. There were 4 of 

 us. My partner and I, fishing one hour 

 and 10 minutes, filled our baskets and 

 dug holes in the snow and piled them full, 

 We used no bait but flies, 2 on each line, 

 and about half the time pulled out 2 fish, 

 When it was time to go Mr. Conrad took 

 off his waterproof coat and piled the fish 

 into it. When we reached camp we had 

 355 trout about 8 inches long each. Our 

 partners returned to camp with a few fish; 



