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RECREATION. 



Belgian hares for game purposes. It is 

 the same nonsense as to raise a high bred 

 English pig for game. The Belgian hare is 

 too innocent, and when matured and well 

 fed too heavy and lazy, slow and stupid to 

 make sport. I do not see anything wrong 

 in shooting 25 or 50 more quails on private 

 preserves, because the club bears the ex- 

 penses of raising again as many or more 

 quails and there is no fear of extermina- 

 tion ; but to shoot a Belgian hare, an ani- 

 mal that is too dull, stupid and innocent 

 to run away, is little less than murder. It 

 is a good plan to cross the Western jack 

 rabbit with the German rabbit; but one 

 should know that jack rabbits never will 

 stay where there are many hares. The 

 restlessness of the latter causes a constant 

 noise as they move in the fallen leaves. 



A good advice for owners of large pre- 

 serves where deer, elk, etc., are to be hunt- 

 ed is to prevent the accidental shooting of 

 members. 



Not fewer mistakes are made in stocking 

 waters with different fishes. Even the 

 same kind of fishes but from different wat- 

 ers kill each other out. California, native 

 brook and German trout should never be 

 planted out together. They will kill each 

 other. After the eggs are hatched artificial- 

 ly the fry always separate in 2 bunches. 

 The group of larger fishes are always found 

 near where the water enters, the smaller 

 ones near where the watei* leaves the 

 trough. These 2 bunches should never be 

 mixed and planted in the same water, ex- 

 cept in a big lake and then far apart. As 

 a rule the success of a preserve rests with 

 the managing man. 



C. Boudewijns, Hoboken, N. J. 



SEEDLINGS. 



The progress in establishing forestry as 

 a profession in this country is exemplified 

 in the rapid multiplication of forestry 

 schools, and in the rapid growth of the ex- 

 isting ones. The 2 colleges at Cornell and 

 Yale have together registered no students, 

 over one-half being new accessions. These 

 and the graduates from these and other 

 forestry schools and other professional for- 

 esters in general in the country may now 

 well number between 200 and 300, enough 

 to warrant the publication of the first pro- 

 fessional journal, the Forestry Quarterly, 

 issued from the New York State College of 

 Forestry, under a board of managers com- 

 posed of students and a board of advisors 

 composed of alumni and members of the 

 faculty. It is to serve as "a means of com- 

 munication among those who are building 

 up the science and art of forestry in the 

 United States." Although this journal is 

 intended mainly to serve the technical 

 needs of the profession, the subject is so 



broad and interesting that many lay read- 

 ers will find desirable instruction in its 

 pages. 



The subscription price is $1, to be sent 

 to the Business Editor Forestry Quarterly, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



It is not generally known, but there is ap- 

 parently a distinction between the areas 

 implied under the terms Adirondack Park 

 and Adirondack Preserve. The Adirondack 

 Park is the territory, both State and pri- 

 vate, included by the heavy blue line which 

 is marked on State maps. This includes 

 3,226,144 acres made up of 1,163,414 acres 

 belonging to the State, 705,914 acres in 

 private preserves and 1,356,816 acres be- 

 longing to individuals or companies. 



The Adirondack Preserve is the State 

 land inside ami outside of the Adirondack 

 Park. It contains in all 1,325,851 acres. 



Among the new reservations which have 

 been formed during the present year, of 

 special interest are the Dismal River and 

 Niobrara Forest Reserves in Nebraska. 

 These consist of sand which is liable to be 

 shifted by the wind in case the vegetative 

 cover becomes too thin. They contain prac- 

 tically no trees, but are being planted by the 

 Bureau of Forestry. It is remarkable that 

 this sand is moist, and that when trees once 

 get started in this region they grow with 

 great rapidity. 



Several changes have been made recently 

 in the reservations around the Yellowstone 

 park. The park is now bounded on the 

 South by the large Teton Forest Reserve 

 of 84,127,360 acres; on the East by the Yel- 

 lowstone Forest Reserve, formerly the Yel- 

 lowstone Park Timber Land Reserve, con- 

 taining 1,834,240 acres; and near to the 

 Northwest is the Madison Forest Reserve 

 of 736,000, which was set aside August 16, 

 1902. 



A recent magazine contains an interesting 

 account of the life, duties and responsibili- 

 ties of the forest ranger on the reservations 

 of Southern California. The illustrations 

 showing a mounted ranger in uniform, 

 rangers dibbling in seed, cutting trails and 

 gathering pine seed are tangible evidences 

 that at last something is being done to re- 

 pair the damage of years of neglect and 

 abuse. 



Baron Sonnino, a well known economist 

 and leader of the Constitutional Opposition 

 in the Italian Parliament, ascribes the sor- 

 rowful condition of the peasants of South- 

 ern Italy to "excessive deforestation, exces- 

 sive taxation, usury and phylloxera," 



