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FOREST AND STREAM. 
(Mat 15, 1897 
was climbing, dirty and bedraggled, to the top of the ravine. 
The cowboy did not feel very proud of his exploit, but, nev- 
ertheless, the little episode had touched a tender spot in the 
frurl's heart, and a short time ago the bells of the Cherry 
Creek CUurch announced the wedding of this typical frontier 
couple." 
GENESEE VALLEY ASSOCIATION. 
The annual meetings of the Genesee Valley Fish and Bird 
protective and Propagating Association and of the Coneaus 
Lake Fish and Game Association were held in the rooms of 
the Chamber of Commerce last week. 
In the absence of President A. Emerson Babcock, of the 
Genesee Valley Association, First Vice-President Harry 8, 
Woodworth presided at the meeting. Secretary Frank J. 
Amsden in his report of the work done by the Association 
during the past year, took occasion to pay a high compli- 
ment to the services rendered in the protection of fish and 
game by President Babcock, of the Fisheries, Game and 
Forest Commission, Mr Amsden said that he thought that 
some of the members of the association were unaware of the 
influence of an organization of this kind, He quoted as an 
instance that a number of poachers had been doing some 
illegal fishing in Hemlock Lake. The residents of Geneseo, 
becoming aware of the fact, made application for the ap- 
pointment of a special protector. There being no organize4 
club at that place, it devolved upon the Genesee Valley Asso- 
ciation to recommend to the State Commission the appoint- 
ment of a special protector, with the result that one had just 
been appointed. 
"The situation in our Section is probably apparent to you. 
Mr. Brooks and a number of special protectors have been 
quite active of late in arresting and securing the conviction 
of illegal fisbermen. But their labors are ineffective, in that 
while they are working in one place, the illegal fishing is 
going on in another section of the three counties, over which 
Mr. Brooks has jurisdiction. I suggest that it would be well 
for this Association to put itself on record as favoring the 
increasing of the number of regular protectors. The present 
small force is inadequate to cover the whole State. The 
Governor has disapproved of the appointment of more pro- 
tectors, so as to keep down the appropriations as much as 
possible This is poor policy, since the State is paying out 
large sums of money every year in keeping up hatcheries 
and stocking the streams with spawn, and then allows the 
fish to be killed indiscriminately by reason of not furnishing 
adequate protection." 
Mr. Amsden's report seemed to meet with unanimous ap- 
proval as regards the necessity for the appointment of addi- 
tional prottctors, of which there are but thirty-six in the. 
State, including the chief protector and several deputies, 
who cover no designated territory. On motion of Mr. Red- 
mond, the following resolution was unanimously adopted. 
Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that the present 
force of game protectors is insufflcent for the protection of 
fish and game in this State; be it 
Eesoimd, That it is the sense of this Association that there 
should he au increase of twelve to the body of protectors now 
provided for. " • - 
Treasurer Thomas W. Fraine, as chairman of the bird 
comoiittee, then (jresented the following interesting report 
respecting the Mongolian pheasants: 
"The past season has proven successful and also fruitful; 
we have g^iaed more knowledge and experience as to the 
care and handling of the young birds during the critical 
time, which is when the chicks are from one to fourteen 
days old. At this tender age they require to be fed evory 
two hours Each brood must be placed with the mother in 
small movable coops and. their feeding ground changed daily. 
They are vt-ry fond of fresh grass and will pick every blade 
within their quarters in a few hours At night these small 
coops, with itieir occupants, are placed inside a building for 
safetv. We had a great many chicks last summer and suc- 
ceeded in raising thirty.five to maturity. These were dis- 
tributed in Monroe county as follows: O ne pair in Henrietta, 
one pair in Iroadequoit, one pair in Brighton, three pairs in 
Egypt, three pairs m Seneca Park, and three escaped from 
the coops. 
"Fifteen birds were sold to help defray expenses of run- 
ning the pheasantry at No. 641 Genesee street. Six of these 
were sold to the Forestry Commissioners, and sent to the New 
York State Hatchery at Bath, where the Commissioners are 
now breeding them for distribution throughout the State; 
the balance of nine were sold to private individuals. 
"Our other pheasantry at Penfield has been abandoned for 
obvious reasons, and the four birds it contained have been 
transferred to Genesee street, where there are at present five 
cocks and nine hens. They are all in fine condition, and the 
hens laying daily. We have a good stock of Bantam hens 
on hand for brooder's, and three are now sitting on pheas- 
ants' eggs." 
This letter was read from President Gavitt, of the State 
Association: 
"Ltons, N. Y , April 3b. — Thomas W. Fraine, Esq. — My 
"Dear Sir:' Replymg to your favor of this date, it is with 
pleasure that i can inform you favorably in relation to my 
experience with pheasants Am now entering upon my 
third year in the breeding of these beautiful birds, and start 
this season with breeding pens numbering sixteen strong, 
healthy birds, now laying at the rate of six to ten eggs per 
day. Of course I have met with many unfavorable condi- 
tions and experiences in the handling of them, but now con- 
sider that I have overcome much that seemed to be in the 
way. 
"For the benefit of those who may meet with the same 
obstacles which came to me, would call attention to the fact 
that one of the most seiious troubles I had was in keeping 
several birds in 'same inclosure without £ghting and eventu- 
ally killing each other 1 now clip wing of each bird and 
have adopted open runs with 8ft. fence. Birds keep in 
much better trim and are not inclined to fight. In feeding 
am most success ul in using a liberal supply of animal food. 
Maggots, bugs, worms and the like are to be' fed in good 
quantities. Am very sure that the pheasants will stand any 
amount of cold and esposuj-e that this locality is likely to 
muster. The only trouble will be in the case of deep snow, 
where they may be deprived of feed for a length of time; 
stUl am not so suie but they may adapt themselves to the 
circumstances and teed as do our grouse in such cases. 
"I am much pleased to know that the Genessee Valley As- 
sociation is being successful in its efforts in the rearing of 
these birds, and trust its efforts may be rewarded in creating 
a public sentiment sutQciently strong to give these grand 
game specimens a fair trial in western Incw York. I am 
very much interested in the matter, and shall at all timea be 
glad to lend a helping h^n^ in this direction. Yours very 
fruly, W. S. G-AWT." 
A vote of thanks was tendered by the unanimous vote of 
the Association to Commissioner Babcock for the good work 
done by him in the interest of the protection of the forests 
and fish and game. 
A. B. Lamberton introduced a resolution to the effect that 
it be the sense of the Association that no spring shooting 
should be allowed in this Slate, and that the secretary of the 
Association forward the same to the State Legislature at its 
next annual session, and it was adopted. It was argued that 
if the spring shooting of ducks and other game was^slopped, 
there would be plenty of fall shooting The experiment had 
been tried in the fall of 1895 and proved successful. The 
ducks would stop here and would breed, whereas when 
shooting was allowed in the spring, they would be fright- 
ened away by the guns in the breeding season. 
Mr Lamberton spoke of the fact tuat many thousand of 
trout fry had been placed in the Fulton chain of lakes, but 
at an useless expenditure of money, for the reason that there 
was no protection afforded, the fish being taken out of season 
and before they had attained anywhere near the proper size. 
Mr. Lamberton stated that when proper protection was 
given there would be plenty of fishing in a few years, but 
the poachers must be kept away. Mr. Amsden said that the 
situation was the same in this section. Game Protector 
Brooks being obliged to cover three counties. 
Bernard Dunn stated that ovrr a million wall-eyed pike 
had feeen placed in the upper Genesee with good results. 
There would be good fishing there within a few years. Mr. 
Dunn suggested that a culvert or waste weir should he 
constructed from the Erie canal at the eastern wide waters to 
one of the creeks tributary to Irondequoit bay, so that the 
bass which come down the canal from Lake Erie and lodgp 
in the wide waters in the fall when the water is drawn off 
could find a home for the winter in deeper water. As it 
was. if left to remain in the wide waters they would be net- 
ted and otherwise exterminated by the poachers. < 
The following ticket was unanimously elect^ed : President, 
Harry S Woodworth; First Vice-President, H. M. Stewart; 
Second Vice President, James H. Brown ; Treasurer, Thomas 
W Fraine; Secretary, Frank J. Amsden Executive Com- 
mittee: J. B. Y. Warner, Daniel Bascom. Dr. David Little, 
Howard H Widener, A B Lamberton, Edmund Redmond, 
Charles B Richards and W. F. Brinsmaid. 
The following officers were elected by the ConesusLate 
Association: President, L. L Williams; Vice-President, 
Harry S. Woodworth; Secretary-Treasurer, William H. N. 
Bascom Executive Committee: Dr. John Zimmer, John 
Bramel and W H. Bascom. The Association is composed 
of cottagers at Conesus Lake. Secretary Bascom reported that 
there had been a decided change of sentiment among the 
farmers in thi.s section, who were now aiding the Association 
in its work. Some of the most notorious poachers had also 
fallen into line. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Victory for the Tolleston Club. 
Chicago, 111., May 8.— Tolleston Gun Club, of Chicago, 
won a practical victory this week in the result of the famous 
gamekeeper cases on trial at Crown Point, Ind., in which' 
the club wardens were arrested on the charge of attempted 
murder Asreporttd in Foeest and Stream at the time 
of the shooting, the club warueos were attacked by a band 
of over a dozen farmers who were finally fired upon, one of 
them being seriously hurt, though he did not die, as was 
widely reported. Great eft'orts were made to keep up the 
local excitement, and the feeling against the club was very 
bitter among the local poachers, who have alwaj's sought to 
break into the Tolleston preserves. It was hardly to be ex- 
pected that the club would get much of a verdict in a town 
which was a perfect hotbed of enmity against them, but it 
seems that after nine hours of balloting the worst the jury 
could do for the punishment of the accused warden, Barnum 
Whitlock, was to find him guilty of simple assault and bat- 
tery, and not of attempted murder. His sentence was fixed 
at six months imprisonment and a fine of |500. The others 
of the club wardens, Alfred Taylor and Charles Whitlock, 
were discharged, as no case could be made against them. 
Charles and John Blackburn are still under arrest and will 
be tried this coming week under the original charges against 
them Prosecution will set up that John B'ackburn was the 
one who shot Frank Kos'ic with the rifle ball which u sed 
through his body, whereas the defense will urge thai this 
may have been done by Frank Whitlock, who made his 
escape and has not yet- been found by the Indiana sheriff 
The county commissioners of Crown Point have passed an 
order compelling all prisoners to work on the streets in ball 
and chain, and since the sentencing of Barnum Whitlock, as 
above, the Sheriff" has undertaiien to make him work in the 
chain gang with the rest of the pii-oners. This humiliation 
in the presence of his enemies he refuses to undergo, and at 
last accounts he had not been forced to work. 
The local farmers, who have been behind this movement 
against the Tolleston Club, have been much offended at the 
failure to make out their cases in court, and they are much 
worked up over the matter. They say they cannot get jus- 
tice in their own town, and threaten all sorts of dark and 
bodeful things It is, indeed, matter of astonishment that 
this hard-fighting club should have done so well in this, its 
most bitter and most doubtful fight. Such contests take off 
much of the edge of sport at the Tolleston Club, and no one 
deplores this and kindred events more than the club mem- 
bers themselves; yet if they did not fight they must give up 
their entire property to those who want it of them. Crit- 
icism of this club should not be passed, at least until all the 
facts are known, and then not readily. The Tolleston Club 
Is only doing the fighting on questions which will have to 
come up in the history of sport in this country. They are 
gradually proving things which will one day be held matter 
of course, gradually winning a fight for the sportsmen of 
America which after a while will be held no fight at all, so 
obvious will the principles then seem wiiich now are upheld 
by this club only at the expense of much money and time and 
painful regret. The policy of the club— one of positive 
silence and dignified determination— is commendable id its 
tone, and seems to be a winning one. 
Illinois Audubon Society. 
Mr. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago, writes in regard to the 
recently organized Audubon Society of Illinois, calling at- 
tention to a work which has had all too little popular recog- 
nition, but whose purposes re ciuiie no comment in the pages 
of Forest and Steeam. He says in his letter; "There has 
been organized au Illinois Audubon Society for the protec- 
tion of birds; bearing particularly on the feathers of wild 
birds, which have been so extensively used for ornamenta- 
tipn. You are no doubt etriccly in sympathy with this 
movement, and we are suie such action as has been taken 
already, is, and will do much good in dissuading the 'feath( r 
fad" among ladies, and also the wanton destruction of song 
and insectivorous birds and the robbing of their nests and 
eggs by the small boy, who as a 'rage collector' gathers (htm 
in the spring and summer and, as his interest flags in the 
winter, breaks or sells them." 
Fecundity of Pheasants. 
Now that we have another governor of Illinois, who mny, 
perhaps, not be quite so bitterly opposed to game itrotection 
as was the late one, who vetoed the act protecting Mongoli in 
pheasants in Illinois, it may not be too much to hope that 
we may have a law making it possible to introduce that bird 
in Illinois. It is something which ought to be done. A 
gentleman from Oregon who was lately interviewed here by 
FoKEST AND Stream upon the subject, speaks most enthu- 
siastically of this bird as a game bird. He says that it now 
fairly overruns parts of Oregon where it has only been intro 
duced for a few years, and bids fair to offer permanent sport 
in covers once shot out of native game. It stands any sort 
of winter, and will fight any sort of enemy, even to hawks 
and crows. It is alleged that the cock pheasant will actually 
fly up into the air and attack a passing hawk, fabulous as 
this seems to hear. The cock bird will fight any rooster, and 
drive it out of its own yard. Moreover, the bird is wonder- 
fully prolific. This gentleman said that his sister had made 
a small business of raising "knd selling these birds, and she 
found that during one season a single hen of the Mongolian 
pheasant laid 172 eggs. With any proper kind of care, such 
a bird as this pheasant should furnish game for covers where 
the native birds have not been able to survive. The sport at 
the bird is described as magnificent, and the main drawback 
to it seems to be that the cocks have a way of running off 
and leaving the bens lo lie to the dog, and so to meet the 
gun Shall we not have the Mongolian pheasant and a 
pheasant law? It need not be over five years in its closed 
season, for if this bird is to thrive in our climate it will mul- 
tiply astonishingly in the course of that time. 
Shooting Season Passlne. 
Our jacksnipe have now passed on for the most part at this 
latitude, and the shooting season may be called closed, bar- 
ring a little. shooting on golden plover. Out in Iowa this 
week I found the jacksnipe still lingering along the streams 
of the central part of the State, They have had a great sea- 
son for snipe in that country this year, and many very good 
bags have been made. 
Chickens In Iowa. 
I was much surprised to hear that in the old settled parts 
of Iowa, such as Jasper and Polk counties, the prairie 
chicken has again showed itself. A liveryman at Mitchell- 
ville told me that each season of late there have been good 
bags of chickens made within a few miles of that town. One 
party of shooters last fall bagged seventy-two birds in one 
day. These shooters came from Des Moines, which is only 
about twelve miles distant Yet Des Moines is rated at 
some 60,000 souls, I believe, perhaps more, and has been 
settled since the SOs or earlier. This shows that we could 
hHve plenty of eame all over the West if we wanted it. This 
Mitchellville country is all high, rich, black farming land, 
with almost no waste ground in it, and farmed up to the 
edge with grain, very little grass lands being left. Yet the 
birds hang around the edges of the fields and manage to 
raise their young in spite of the absence of their wonted 
prairies. In the opinion of my informant, there could be 
excellent chicken shooting in that country if shooters would 
observe the law, and let the birds get big enough before they 
began to shoot them. 
Got Three Bears. 
My friend Boak writes me this week from the Blackfoot 
Reservation that his partner, Scott, has already killed three 
bears this spring. This is near the country wliere we made 
our sheep hunt recently, of which more later. There is 
probably no better big game country left, and I feel sure that 
if any one has a wi-h to kill his bear, I can direct him to the 
soot where he can get him sure it was almost the only re- 
gret of our trip last winter that we were forced to leave be- 
fore the bears bad come out of winter quarters. It is hard 
to get within a few miles of the bear you have lost, and not 
be able lo see him— a good deal like hearing your best girl 
talking in the next room when the footman is showing you 
oo the door. This month, May, is the best bear month of the 
year, and the grizzly for (he next twenty or thirty days will 
be an easy gume for any one who goes after him aright, 
Scott and Boak usually get about twenty bears each year. 
They hunt for revenue only, and would rather kill a black 
bear than a grizz'y, as its fur sells for more. But between 
the two in point of danger they make no distinction, having 
the contempt of experience for them both. The largest and 
most deadly grizzlies are those killed in books. The actual 
killing of a grizzly is something in the nature of a Cakewalk, 
according to these men. E Houoa. 
iaC6 BoYCE BciLDiNO, Chicago. 
Abmit 'tha.t Adirondack Irisbmaii. 
Ne"vvark, N J., May 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: Since 
I have been able to purchase a copy of Forest and Stream, 
more than ten years, I have never seen anytning in its col- 
umns that has roused my indignation so much as a statement 
made by H. Stewart, writing upon ""'^olves in the Adiron- 
dacks," in the current issue. 
In speaking of "his" Irishman, he says: "He was posi- 
tively trembling with fear, and gave little attention to the 
talk 1 gave him, which, you may be sure, was in vigorous 
terms, and not to be mistaken, even by an Irishman." 
Now, what is Mr. Stewart's conception of an Irishman? 
Does he class him with a South Sea Islander, or is he wholly 
ignorant of the fact that the greatest statesmen in this world 
were, and are, Irishmen? 
True, there are some people from Ireland's rural districts 
who are below the average in worldly intelligence, but I can 
safely state that there never was a son of the G-een Isle in 
this country who could not understand when he was repri- 
manded. 
Surely your copy reader made an error in allowing this 
sentence to pass, for I daresay it has aroused the indignation 
of many another Irish reader of your great paper besides 
yours, etc., Edwakd F. Duffy. 
The Birds ia New Hampshire. 
I AM over the State a great deal, and never heard so many 
ruffed grouje drumming as there are this spring. There was 
an uncommonly large liiglit of woodcock this spring. 
N. Wentwo»T4, 
