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FOREST AND STREAM. 
Feb. 16, 1895. 
declared the new "bill fatally weak. Then, why was Warden Blow 
not informed of it, daring the past four months, during which time 
5,000 copies have. been distributed throughout the State for sugges- 
tions— a most fair and impartial way of .dealing .with a vast con- 
stituency—and not wait until the bill is introduced? 
''The item also states the markets are free to sell,birds the year 
round. How can they sell .Illinois game, the killing of which is 
specifically prohibited except between certain dates, when it may 
be lawfully sold? As Illinois deer are protected till 1900, why 
should the bill prohibit the sale of these animals when none may 
be killed? Prairie chickens are ripe for killing Sept. 1, and be- 
cause the present date is Sept. 15. through a clerical error in the 
existing law, is no reason why the expressed wish of sportsmen 
throughout tbe State, who prefer to go afield .Sept. 1, should be 
ignored. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, 1 will state, from personal 
knowledge, that over 20,000 shooters in Illinois are ready to make 
affidavit that State Game Warden Charles H. Blow is tbe only 
game warden who has traversed every part of Illinois and tried to 
stop tbe killing of game, instead of searching commission houses 
to prevent the sale of game. As our State Warden says: 'It is no 
use shouting after the game is killed— it is then beyond resuscita- 
tion. What we must do is to prevent the illegal killing, and the 
game will increase naturally.' GEORGE W. STRELL, 
"Vice-President for Illinois N. G. B. and F. P. Association." 
comrades again. 
Of course, the above statement of Comrade Strell is full of ab- 
surd and untrue assertions about the actual features of the law, 
but this I will let the lawyers take up for us later on in the story. 
I want to call attention to only three points: The first statement 
that Comrade Blow has received 500 burning: letters throbbing 
with approval needs a lot of salt. Mr. Baird later wiggled his 
finger in the face of Comrade Strell, and said: 
"I will bet you the biggest dinner you ever saw that you aud 
Blow can't produce 100 such letters of indorsement, let alone 500." 
And Comrade Strell allowed maybe he couldn't. 
Equally, or rather far more absurd, is the assertion of Comrade 
Strell that of his personal knowledge 20,00U shooters in Illinois are 
going to do anything one way or the other. A personal acquaint- 
ance of 20,000 shooters is a trifle large. 
The last point of interest here is the reference to the blackmail- 
ing of the South Water street game dealers. Comrade Strell had 
discovered the species of tree-nesting mare! ^outh Water street 
had been blackmaded under the old law. It was too bad. These 
South Water street men were friends of Comrade Strelll He had 
been all through the street. 
They were comrades! 
The above communications from Comrades Blow and Strell. 
specious and inaccurate and unfair as they were, were easily capa- 
ble of doing a great deal of damage to the cause of sportsmanship 
when published in a daily like the Herald— which never would 
have published them had it known the facts. It will be noticed 
that seeming weight might be added by the signing of Comrade 
Strell's title as Vice-President, etc. 
Comrade Blow and Comrade Strell published the above of their 
own motion. Comrade Strell added his title of his own motion. 
They thus conveyed an entirely wrong impression through the 
columns of the Herald. 
THE COMRADES REPUDIATED. 
Just to show how much weight there should really be attached 
to the letter of Comrade Strell, I beg to offer the three following 
letters, without comment: 
"Chicago, HI.. Feb. 6. Mr. E. Hough. Dear Sir: I wish to state, 
replying to your inquiry, that the statements made in the Chicago 
Herald of Feb. 3 by Warden Blow and by Geo. W. fctreB were not 
made on the motion or by the sanction of the Executive Commit- 
tee of the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association, and do not repre- 
sent the opinions of the committee in any way. 1 consider them 
detrimental in a high degree to the best interests of sportsman- 
ship. R. B. ORGAN, 
"Chairman Executive Committee." 
"Mr. E. Hough.— Dear Sir: As President of the Illinois State 
Sportsmen's Association, I fully indorse the above communication 
of Mr. R. B. Organ, and concur in the sentiment contained therein. 
"W. L. SHEPARD, 
"President Illinois State. Sportsmen's Association." 
Chicago, Feb. 8. Mr. E. Hough. Dear Sir: In an article which 
appeared in the Chicago Sunday Herald of Feb. 3 Mr. George W. 
Strell, Vice-President of the N. G. B. & F. P. Association, makes 
some statements which are directly and by inference antagonistic 
to the avowed purposes of our National Association. These state- 
men ts made by him should be taken as his personal views only, 
and thev were not authorized and cannot be indorsed by the asso- 
ciation. M. R. BORTREE." 
(Mr. Bortr.ee is the President of the National Game Bird and 
Fish Protect 1 ve Association.) 
. THE COMRADES ALLEGE BLACKMAIL. 
But about the tree-nesting mare. The Blinois Association com- 
mittee did not like the word "blackmail." They proposed to find 
out about that charge. They took the matter up at a meeting 
Monday, Feb. 4. 's 
At that meeting the Blow bill came up for further scoring by 
Attorney R. S. Mott, who showed it honeycombed with flaws and 
fatal to sportsmen's interests. The committee decided again to 
stand on the present la,w, and a few amendments improving that 
law were approved. A committee was chosen to go to Springfield. 
Mr. Baird was working to get a joint meeting of the Senate and 
House Committees on Game and Fish (such joint meeting will be 
held Feb. 13. It was decided to wire these committees that the 
sportsmen would be with them. 
Then the subject of blackmail came up. Comrade Strell said 
he would bring seven dealers from South Water street who would 
testify to blackmail under the old law. He was instructed to 
bring them in, being well fitted to do this through his friendship 
with the game dealers. 
They were comrades! 
~It was decided to hold a meeting Feb. 6, and to have present the 
South Water street men, aud to have a conference over the sub- 
ject of proposed legislation. 
COMRADES TAKE IT BACK. 
At the meeting Wednesday afternoon the executive committee 
was out in full membership. With their journalistic friend came 
also two other representatives of South Water street, Mr. G. W. 
Barnett and Mr. Geo. Sloan. 
They were comrades. But when they were, time and again, 
asked bv Mr. Mott, Mr. Baird, President Shepard and Chairman 
Organ to name one case of blackmail, they declined to do so. They 
had heard that a warden in years past had accepted a, salary to 
stay away from South Water street, but they knew nothing of it, 
etc. The committee had heard the. same thing, and would have 
liked to get the names of the South Water street firms who gave 
him the bribe. But they couldn't. However, Comrade Strell was 
forced to admit that he had written his Herald letter of bis own 
motion. Comrade Barnett said that letter suited South Water 
street, and so did the Blow bill. 
It transpired that Warden Blow had now abandoned his old bill 
(House Bill No. 56), and had amended it so much that he had made 
a new bill of it. A copy of this new Blow bill, newly printed, was 
handed about. 
THE COMRADES AID EACH OTHER. 
Comrade Barnett admitted that South Water street had raised 
$110 and given it to Warden Blow to get his first bill printed. Mr. 
Baird said: "Didn't South Water street pav to have this Blow bill 
No. 2 printed also?" 
"I decline to answer— I don't know about that," said Comrade 
Barnett. 
"Well, what if we did?" blurted out Comrade Sloan. 
A DECISIVE MEETING. 
I wish I could take space to report in full this meeting, which 
was the sharpest, cleanest, most business-like and most decisive 
thing of the kind I ever saw. The animus of South Water street 
was shown up completely, and it was brought out unmistakably 
that there could be no union of interest between the sportsmen 
and South Water street. The meeting was courteous and diplo- 
matic in every respect. Mr. Barnett showed himself full of tact 
and resource; but he was no match for the material brought 
against him. Mr. Mott's speech and his cross-questioning of Mr. 
Barnett as to the growing scarcity of game all over the country I 
consider to have been the finest and most decisive thing of th« 
kind I ever heard at a meeting of sportsmen. Mr. Barnett naively 
admitted that the game no longer came from Illinois. "•Illinois 
game amounts to nothing now," he said; but that it formerly came 
much from Illinois. Then it came from Missouri, but not now; 
once from Iowa, but not now. "Oh, Iowa has no game!" he said. 
Once, for a brief time, it came from the Indian nations, but not so 
much now. Mr. Barnett thought the game was getting less and 
less. "We get a few deer from Wisconsin now, but no chickens 
any more," he said. Then, he was forced to admit that he knew it 
was illegal to ship venison from Wisconsin. Indeed, he was forced 
to admit a great many things. He exposed unwittingly the whole 
workings of the outrageous game trade of South Water street. 
Mr. Sloan insisted that game was growing scarcer because the 
Illinois law was causing it to be shipped East instead of to Chicago. 
That sort of statement is nonsense, and needs no comment. Those 
who study the question all over the country know the game is 
becoming extinct, exterminated, all over the. shooting country, 
and that it is only found in the markets because, the last of the 
new covers are now being shot out and swiped up. 
THE TWO BLOW BILLS ARE ALIKE. 
The new Blow bill was discussed at the meeting, and shown to 
open the Illinois markets to sell Illinois game four months in the 
year. The present law forbids its sale at any season. It was 
further shown that it made Chicago a wide open market the year 
round for all foreign game. And now the true animus of the 
dealers began to crop out. They offered this resolution, signed by 
many dealers: 
"We, the undersigned game dealers of Chicago, do solemnly de- 
clare, on our word of honor, that we are unalterably opposed to 
the traffic in game illegally killed in this or any other State, and 
will do all in our power to uphold a law just to all the people, and 
we further pledge ourselves to do all in our power to prohibit the 
buying, selling, handling or killing of any game during the season 
when such killing is by law prohibited; but when such game is 
killed and shipped legally, from any State, we claim tne right, as 
American citizens, to buy, sell and handle it for the American 
people at large, who have, rights in game as well as the sportsman 
class. Give us a law which will allow us to sell game during the 
legal open seasons, when all people want it, and you will not have 
any stauchre supporters of game protection anywhere. We in- 
dorse Game Warden Charles H. Blow's bill because it is just to all 
people alike, and is not class legislation like the existing law." 
This might at first seem a fair proposition, but it is not fair; and 
unfair as it is is, South Water street means anything but the best 
part of tnat. That statement is the same as the Blow bill, and it 
insists that once South Water street has a bird in hand, it can sell 
it as it likes. "Shipped legally," forsooth! Where does South 
Water street get its game? From Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michi- 
gan, Dakota, Nebraska. Look at the lavvs of those States and see 
how many allow the shipping of game at any season. The game 
business of South Water street lives and thrives on the violation 
of laws of the other States, and none know this better than the 
most prosperous dealers of that street. Yet, by means of this 
precious warden and his precious bill, by means also, as much as 
possible, of a buncoed aud unfortunate representative of a so- 
called sportsman's journal,- South Water street comes boldly out 
and says to the sportsmen of Illinois: "You tend to Illinois and 
protect your Illinois game (which we don't want, because we have 
already sold the most of it long ago), and keep your hands off of 
our business. Don't you dare go outside of this State, and don't 
you ask us how or where we got our game. All you have to do is 
to leave us alone and let us sell it after we do get it.\ 
That is pertty doctrine to ask the sportsmen of Illinois to accept, 
isn't it? 
THE COMRADES INSIST ON THE BLOW BILL. 
They will not accept it. The lawyers of the committee showed 
what the Blow bill would do, and showed the two Blow bills to be 
alike and of equal viciousness. They offered to agree on a state- 
ment of facts and to go before the joint committee of tbe Legisla- 
ture at Springfield with the South Water street men. ' "We want 
to shorten your selling season by thirty days," said Mr. Baird. 
"The old law was agreed upon as an armistice between the sports- 
men and the dealers. Now we want to cut off January from your 
selling season. According to your own statement, you want to 
protect our Illinois game, and you don't want to sell illegal game. 
Then there is nothing between us except this thirty days. This 
comes up in Section 6 of the old law. Let us agree on all other 
points and join issue before the committee at Springfield on that 
one point." 
"Nol" cried Mr. Sloan; and Mr. Barnett in his smoother manner 
once more insisted that South Water street stood on the Blow bill 
and would fight for it. "That suits us," said he. "Mr. Strell's 
letter in the Herald is our position, identically." 
They were comrades! 
Thus one by one the masks were stripped off from every South 
Water street protestation. The dealers came out flatly, and said, 
"We want the right to sell game at any time that it can be sold 
in any other city." That is, they want to rival the iniquities of 
Boston and New York markets. Time and again Mr. Barnett 
reiterated the favorite doctrine of Warden Blow. 
"Stop the killing of the game. Catch the killer before he kills 
(when you can't convict him), but don't try to control the bird 
after it is dead, nor punish any man for handling it after it is 
dead." 
That is a fine war cry! And to what does it lead on? To coverts 
bare of game, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The lesson of the 
buffalo and the wild pigeon reads one way to the man who is intel- 
ligent and sincere. 
Mr. Mott and Mr. Baird handled the sportsmen's case with 
ability and discretion, but they could get no mo'e than the above 
out of the representatives of the game dealers. Mr. Sloan admit- 
ted that the street was going to fight now. They stood on this Blow 
bill. All they asked for was only everything! 
Mr. Mott said that personally lie would prefer to see no game at 
all sold at any time, but did not think a measure stopping tne sale 
of game could be passed, and would not advocate it. But he feared 
a law like the Blow bill, which would be bad for Illinois game. In 
England they considered the non-importation of game laws to be 
one of the strongest preservers of English game. He asked the 
Chicago market to give up the month of January and to be content 
with three months. 
But the discussion came to nothing. It was seen there cotild be 
no compromise, but that South Water street insisted on an open 
market. Mr. Mott said: "Then all we have found is that this Blow 
bill represents South Water street?" Mr. Barnett smiled depreca- 
tingly. 
NEW BLOW BILL UTTERLY A'ICIOUS. 
The new Blow bill, on which South Water street and the Ameri- 
can Field pm their faith, is utterly and absolutely v'cious. It is 
no wonder that South Water street approves it, for a better bill 
for the game dealers could not be devised. All the way through 
the careful reader can see one trend. The law makes it mighty 
rough for the farmer boy who breaks the statute, but nowhere , 
in no clause in no one single particular, can anyone find a solitary 
provision adverse to the interests of South Water street. The 
bird may be killed illegally, but if once South Water street gets 
it you can't follow it, The warden is to be well paid. He and ilia 
men draw §7,900 a year of the farmers' taxes out of the treasury, 
whether or not the conditional fund covers it. The warden drav\ s 
this pay, for what? For doing nothing. He cannot search South 
Water street. His wardens do the work outside, and the dealers 
have seen to it that all warden work must be done outside Chi- 
cago. It all rests on the aciivitv of those deputies and the indi- 
vidual activity of their chief, whether game is to be protected. 
These farmers must be over the State of Illinois all at once. They 
must arrest the gun before it is fired at the bird— all over the 
State, and if they get there after it is killed is their theory of 
protection not exploded? Is not the bird dead in the country as 
dead as it is on South Water street? Ah, but listen! This bird 
now has a value If the deputy arrives too late, and if the bird 
is killed, he cannot follow it to South Water street. Once there 
it is safe, under Mr. Blow's theory and Mr. Blow's bill. 
Under this new Blow bill ihe warden can "arrest, on sight" 
Very well. But can he seize illegal game on sight? Bless you, no! 
That's against his theory and against his bill. 
Under this bill the South Water street dealer can get his 
market hunter a license and send him down in the country to 
shoot. He is protected. But if my farmer boy chases a wounded 
quail over on to his neighbor's farm, he can be fined $10 to $25. 
If the warden finds a man who has killed a dozen illegal birds, 
be can't fine him for each bird, as under the old law. In the new 
Blow bill the "separate offense" provision is left out. This leaves 
less latitude and discretion possible. 
The new Blow bill does not make possession of illegal game 
prima facie evidence of guilt, as the old law did. 
The new Blow bill permits the selling of Illinois game from Sept. 
1 to Jan. 1. The old law does not permit the sale at all. 
The new Blow bill opens the market for the sale of foreign game 
the year round. This infamous measure was never before offered 
this community. 
The new Blow bill wipes out the old search warrant clause, by 
which the warden could search for illegal game on South Water 
street, or elsewhere. He won't need to search any more, perhaps. 
That isn't his theory." 
The new Blow bill repeals all former laws. It is new. It is un- 
tried. It is vicious. Yet it wipes out the old law, proved sound 
by the Supreme Court of Illinois. 
LEGAL OPINIONS ON THE BLOW BILL. 
The following legal opinions on this last product of Mr. Blow 
are from two lawyers, who probably know more about the game 
laws of thiB State than any two in the city. M r. K. S. Mott writes 
of it the following opinion as an attorney: 
"Chicago, Feb. 7. Mr. E. Hough, Forest and Stream.— Dear Sir: 
The new bill for the protection of game, prepared by Game War- 
den Blow and introduced in the Senate, and which is currently 
reported to be designed by the parties interested, to supersede 
House Bill No. 56, which has been severely criticized, is prac- 
tically the same old vicious measure. It still permits the sale of 
Illinois game during the open season; the sale of game from other 
States at all seasons of the. year: the trapping, netting and snaring 
of quail and prairie chickens during tiie open season, and in all 
probability the shipment of game from this State; it permits the 
sale and traffic in the eggs of game birds, which is now prohibited. 
Section 6, in reference to hunting upon the lands of another with- 
out consent, contains the penalty which was omitted in House 
Bill No. 56, but has an additional clause which would require the 
farmer to post his farm as a game preserve, otherwise it is not 
necessary to obtain consent to hunt thereon. This practically 
minifies the present law. and is clearly drafted in the interest of 
the market hunter and game dealer. 
"From the two bills as drafted by Mr. Blow after defects therein 
were pointed out, and from his communications to the Illinois 
State Sportsmen's Association in reference to the sale of game, 1 
am clearly convinced that any bill tor the protection of game em- 
anating from that source will be detrimental rather than benefi- 
cial and should be closely scrutinized by every sportsman in this 
State. ROBIN S. MOTT, 
"Law Commiteet I. S. S. A." 
Mr. E. S. Baird writes the following opinion as an attorney: 
"Chicago, Feb. 8.— E, Hough. Esq.. Forest and Stream. My Dear 
Sir: The so-called amended game warden bill recently introduced 
in our Legislature has been handed me, and upon an inspection of 
the same, I am of the opinion that it is equally as vicious .as the 
original. It is not properly entitled. It should be entitled, "A 
Bill to Destroy Illinois and other Game, for the benefit of the 
game dealers." 
"This bill is in nea,rly every respect similar to the original one, 
in that it is drawn up entirely in the interest of the game dealers 
and against the farmers and those upon whose land the game is 
raised and fed. It omits all penalties against the game dealer, 
and has stringent and exorbitant penalties against the farmer and 
the farmer's boy, and aU others who ha ve really an interest in the 
game. 
"Sec. 1 extends the open season for killing game fully GO days; 
it also allows the trapping of game during the entire open season. 
Sec. 3 niakes it a penalty to rob the nests and destroy the eggs of 
game and other birds, but has no penalty for selling tho eggs. 
Sec. 4 allows sale of Illinois game during the open season, viz., 
from September 1 to January 1. Sees. 7 and 8 attempt to make » 
license to persons hunting,. and makes a penalty for any person to 
hunt without a license, of 810 for the first offense, and §25 for the 
second offense. But it does not make any license or petialty nec- 
essary for the game dealer who sells game. Persons owning farms 
are not required to procure a license to hunt upon their own farms, 
but if a farmer hunting upon his own farm should follow game 
onto another person's farm or land, without a license, he is liable 
to be fined $10 for the first offense, and $25 for the second offense. 
Sec. 9 is a sop thrown out to the game warden by the game dealers 
of South Water street, who had the revision of this bill. It gives 
the chief warden a salary of $1,500 per year, aud each of 8 deputy 
wardens a salary of 8800 per year, making a total cost to the State 
of $7,900 per year, without compelling or requiring the game war- 
den or any of his deputies to perform any particular duties. 
"Sec. 10 gives the game warden power to arrest .without warrant 
on sight any person violating any of the provisions of this act, and 
does not provide for any time or place, or before what court ti e 
person shall be tried; in fact, does not provide for any trial. See. 
13 prohibits the use of a rifle upon any of the waters of the State, 
and provides a penalty of $25 and costs, and makes no provision 
for the collection or enforcement of the same. 
"This bill is vicious in a great many other respects, and if it, 
becomes a law. will repeal all of our present very efficient laws 
which have been affirmed by our Supreme Court, thereby wiping 
out our present game warden act, which allows tho game warden 
to swear out a search warrant and search the premises of the game 
dealers for illegal game, both in and out of season. 
"This bill, if it becomes a law, will be the means of destroying 
all of the Illinois game before the next meeting of our Legislature, 
when the same might he repealed. It has in it some provisions for 
propagating game, all of which are very crude and incomplete, 
and were evidently put iu for the purpose of diverting the atten- 
tion of the reader from the glaring iniquities and deficiencies of 
the bill. I am of the opinion that our present game laws are Of 
the verv best, and shonld remain upon our statute books, except 
where it might be possibly better to amend the game, warden acts 
so as to allow the game warden to seize illegal game on sight, and 
also give the game warden all of the fines. F. S. BAIRD. 
MISTAKES Oli' A SPORTtSG MOSES. 
And this is the bill which is sought to be foisted on the sports- 
men of Illinois by the Illinois warden— a hill for the game dealer 
in every respect, and not for the protection of the birds. This is 
the bill, or its successor, on which "over 500 letters of approval" 
have been received bv a warden, indorsed by a personal acquaint- 
ance of "over 20,000 shooters of Illinois." 
This is the bill supported by the American Field, the biggest 
blundbr even it has ever made. 
Moreover, Mr. Strell in his Herald letter is committing his paper 
to a doctrine absolutely and diametrically opposed to the princi- 
ples of the National Game, Bird and Fish Protective Association, 
whose prime, purpose is one of uniform and stringent game legisla- 
tion, not in one State, but in all States kindred. Yet that, writer is 
a vice-president of the National Association, and the paper he 
represents has sought to be the uncle, the godfather, the grand- 
mother and everything else to the National Association. Now he 
slaps that association in the face just as he does the Illinois State 
Sportsmen's Association. 
THE PROPER DOCTRINES. 
Readers of Forest and Stream will find no inconsistencies in its 
position on this or any other question of game protection. Its 
word has always been, and always will be, for the loftiest princi- 
ples of sportsmanship, and from its position thereon it has never 
been, nor will it ever be, bought, persuaded, threatened, cajoled or 
deceived. 
"FOREST AND STREAM "PLATFORM PLANK." 
"Stop the sale of game" may be something ahead of the timos, a 
measure yet hard to enforce, but it is the .loftiest and wisest word 
possible on the question of game protection. Forest and St ream 
is the malicious enemy of no man, and of no class ot men, but it 
can conceive of no union of interests between it and the dealers in 
game. This fact it will not, I imagine, seek to conceal. It will be, 
if gentlemen please, the enemy of those interests with which its 
contemporary is making friends. It will, if gentlemen wish to put 
it so, fight those men, the game dealers, and their policy and their 
bills. Forest and Stream prefers to stand with the sportsmen, 
and for the interests of these it will fight as best it can. For this 
it will claim no reward. In this it will ask no monopoly. Forest 
and Stream will get the news and it will print the news. It will 
kill the Blow bill, if it can. E, HOUGH, 
809 Security Building, Chicago.. 
Later— Feb. 8.— The fight against the Blow bill is on at Spring- 
field. This morning I saw Senator Campbell, who is up from. 
Springfield. He says that several petitions have come in from the 
lower counties against the Blow bill. A long one from the town oj 
Lincoln was filed against the Blow bill to-day. Senator Campbell 
thinks the bill will be defeated, and that we will come out with th e 
old law, as it was before. This will be matter of rejoicing it it 
proves true. 
Mr. H. H. Fahnestock, a prominent member ot the Illinois asso- 
ciation, whose residence is at Peoria, 111., writes the committee 
that he sees the mistake made in the first Blow bill, and that the 
sportsmen must stand for a law to protect the birds. 
The Illinois State Association, by its executive Committee,, has 
requested the following gentlemen to be present at the joint, com- 
mittee meeting next Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Springfield, to assist 
in the argument atrainst the Blow hill: Frank A. Johnson, W, L. 
Shepard, R. B. Organ, L. M. Haraline, A. C. Paterson. C. S. Wil- 
exo' Abner Price, H. B. Meyers, B. S. Mott, Charles Kern. 
Our new department of Game and Fish Protection has 
proved itself a Minerva, sprung full-armed from the brain 
of Jove. It is and will be interesting, and practically 
useful. Clubs and associations are invited to send us 
notes of their meetings, and reports of the work under- 
taken by them. The interchange of experience and in- 
formation given in this department in a year will be so 
invaluable that no one interested in these fields can well 
afford to neglect the Forest and Stream for 1895. 
